About the Directors

A French and Mauritian citizen and resident born in 1954. He is a well-known Mauritian businessman engaged in the activities of textiles, sugar plantations and international commerce, generally.

He is the founder and Managing Director of the successful textile agency Livring Ltd which is widely engaged in international transactions with textile companies from many jurisdictions, and is responsible for administering their accounts and commercial activity from a multi-jurisdictional standpoint.

He maintains extensive commercial and professional contacts throughout France, the United Kingdom and other European Union countries, and has extensive exposure to business in Europe, and in the Indian Ocean Rim.

A British Citizen born in 1953. Called to the English Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1978, he is a postgraduate of London University where he achieved Merit & Distinction in his international tax Masters. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Practising initially from UK Chambers in commercial and company litigation, liquidations and banking transactions, he moved to Hong Kong in 1986 where he was employed by the Government in the Commercial Crime Unit until 1988. He then commenced private practice at the Hong Kong Bar, specialising in company and commercial law. Tax experience has extended to structuring holding companies for regional licensing, advising on offshore jurisdictions and transactions, international corporate planning with the use of offshore centres, structuring of aircraft leases, interpretation and utilisation of tax treaties, use of profit jurisdictions and related re-invoicing techniques, migration of companies. He also specialises in international transfer pricing and planning.

He has delivered a number of Papers at Academic & Professional Seminars including The Taxation of Derivatives & Swap Mechanisms in the UK, (Hamburg University, 1994); Trends in International Transfer Pricing, (London University, 1994); Tax Planning Opportunities in the Asia Region - Transfer Pricing, (Asia Law & Practice, Hong Kong 1995); Acceptable Treaty Shopping & Limitation of Benefits, (Inter-Pacific Bar Association, Delhi, 1996); Transfer Pricing in the SEA region, (Asia Law & Practice, Hong Kong, 1996); Transfer Pricing Techniques with Intangibles - The OECD 1995 Guidelines, (Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Accountants, 1997).

Recent publications for the Hong Kong Law Society Gazette have included Direct Investment into India via Mauritius - Acceptable Treaty Shopping? (1996) and articles on the USA section 482 Transfer Pricing Regulations and USA Trends (1996).

A British Citizen born in 1963, now a part-time resident of Mauritius having been a full time resident for over 5 years. One of the founders of Brooks Macdonald, a leading London investment advisory company with approaching GBP1 billion in assets under management. Martin is regulated by the UK FSA and continues to practise advising high net worth clients around the world. He also conducts international outsourcing operations relating to financial services from Mauritius.

Maggie was admitted as a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, United Kingdom  in 1989.
She spent 14 years in the UK in London practising at first with two successful medium-sized accountancy firms, before moving on to becoming the financial controller of a large international shipping enterprise.

Maggie is Malaysian-Chinese and is married to a Mauritius citizen. She speaks Malay, English, Cantonese and Mandarin.