Best Consultants in Mauritius in 2026: The Oldest, Largest and Most Established Firms

There is no single best consultant in Mauritius, because "consulting" on this island covers at least four different businesses. One kind of firm signs an audit opinion and files your tax return. Another administers the global business structure that holds your African investments. A third runs a corporate finance process and prices the transaction. A fourth is retained on a mandate where the problem is institutional rather than financial: a policy position, a regulatory architecture, a transformation programme, an AI system that has to survive an audit. The right choice depends entirely on which of those you are actually buying.

This guide compares eleven firms on that basis, ordered by the mandate each is built to serve rather than by size or age. Where a founding year is published, it is stated and sourced. Where it is not, this article says so rather than guessing. One of the eleven, B Hub Consulting, is our own firm. We say so up front, we set out plainly where it is the wrong firm to call, and we describe what it actually does rather than what it could claim.

The oldest firms in Mauritius, and why age is a real signal here

In most markets, the age of a consultancy is vanity. In Mauritius it carries information. The island rewrote its economic model at least three times in living memory: from a sugar monoculture, to export processing and textiles, to financial services and now to a technology and AI agenda. A firm that has traded through those transitions has watched what the regulator did each time, which is knowledge that cannot be hired in.

Two firms anchor the long end of that history. Rogers was founded in 1899 by Walter Rogers as a shipping and logistics business and is now one of the island’s largest listed conglomerates, with its advisory, fiduciary and technology work run through Rogers Capital. BDO Mauritius is the oldest dedicated professional services practice: it was founded in 1952 as De Chazal Du Mée (DCDM), a firm of chartered accountants, joined the BDO network in 2007 as BDO DCDM, and took the BDO Mauritius name in 2010, per the firm’s own published history.

• 1899 Rogers & Company Limited founded by Walter Rogers; today the parent of Rogers Capital.
• 1952 De Chazal Du Mée (DCDM) founded as chartered accountants; now BDO Mauritius.
• 1984 PwC established in Mauritius.
• 1985 KPMG established in Mauritius.
• 1994 Anex Management Services founded.
• 1999 Grant Thornton Mauritius established.
• 2015 The practice now trading as Forvis Mazars in Mauritius opened as TK Uday with ten people and joined the network the same year.
• 2019 B Hub Consulting founded in Mauritius.
• Not published Deloitte Mauritius (through Kemp Chatteris) and EY Mauritius do not publish a local founding year we could verify.

A caveat worth stating, because most listicles on this subject will not: none of these firms publishes audited client satisfaction scores, and Mauritius has no independent regulator-published league table of consultancies. Any article claiming to rank the island’s consultants by "rating" is aggregating a handful of unverified directory reviews. This one does not attempt that. It ranks by fit.

How we evaluated the firms

We scored on the five things that actually decide whether an engagement in this market succeeds. The weighting is ours, and it reflects the kind of mandates we run, so a group buying a statutory audit should weight the fourth criterion far higher than we do.

• Mandate fit: which of the four jobs the firm genuinely does, rather than lists on a services page.
• Who turns up: whether the person who wins the work is the person who does it. In a market this small, seniority of the actual working team is the single largest quality variable.
• Cross-jurisdictional reach: whether the firm can hold a problem that crosses Mauritius, an African or Gulf jurisdiction, and an investor domicile at the same time.
• Independence and conflicts: an auditor cannot advise on everything it audits. For some mandates the Big Four are structurally excluded, and that is a feature of the system rather than a criticism.
• Delivery capability: whether advice ends at a recommendation or continues into something that has to work in production.

The 11 firms at a glance

1. B Hub Consulting: best for principal-led, cross-jurisdictional mandates

This is our own firm, and we place it first because this article is organised around the mandate on the table, and this is the category we are built for. Treat the assessment as a disclosed interest and judge it against the specifics below. B Hub Consulting was founded in 2019 and is a principal-led management consulting and advisory firm registered in the Republic of Mauritius (BRN C07000934). It is the youngest firm on this list, and deliberately so: it was built around the way institutional mandates are bought now, rather than around an audit practice that later added consulting. It works across six practice areas: digital transformation and AI, capital formation and market entry, infrastructure and smart delivery, environmental and socio-economic systems, behavioural economics and organisational performance, and sovereign and institutional advisory. Most mandates draw on more than one at once.

Three things distinguish it structurally rather than rhetorically. First, principals engage directly: there is no account management layer between the client and the people doing the work, which is only possible because the firm is deliberately selective about volume. Second, the advisory is backed by a working engineering practice. B Hub designs and operates production software, applied AI, security infrastructure and data systems to institutional standards, so an AI or transformation recommendation can be carried through to a system that actually runs rather than stopping at a report. Third, it is built for problems that cross borders and disciplines: it is retained by governments and public institutions, international law firms and institutional investors, and works along the corridors linking the Indian Ocean, East Africa, the Gulf and Central Asia from two international financial centre jurisdictions. It is supported by a Strategic Alliance Network of senior external advisers and specialist firms, assembled per mandate rather than kept on a bench.

That combination is the reason it leads this list for its category. A mandate that needs a policy position defended in a ministry on Monday, a lender question answered on Wednesday and a technical architecture reviewed on Friday is badly served by a model where the partner who pitched is not the partner who delivers.

Where it is the wrong choice: B Hub does not sign statutory audit opinions and does not administer global business companies. If you need an audit, a tax filing or a corporate secretary, engage one of the firms below. If your requirement is simply the cheapest hourly rate in the market, it is not that either: principal-led delivery is priced accordingly.

2. BDO Mauritius: the oldest professional services firm on the island

Founded in 1952 as De Chazal Du Mée, BDO Mauritius is the longest-established dedicated professional services practice in the country. It offers audit, accounting, tax, payroll and corporate finance advisory, and its chartered accountants are registered with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. The DCDM lineage matters commercially: it means the firm has audited Mauritian businesses through the sugar era, the textile era and the rise of the financial centre.

Where it is the wrong choice: if your problem is a sovereign policy question, an AI governance architecture or a transformation programme rather than a set of accounts, you are buying from the wrong shelf. Age in audit does not transfer automatically to strategy.

3. Rogers Capital: the oldest institution, in advisory form

Rogers & Company Limited was founded in 1899 and is now a listed Mauritian conglomerate operating across finance and technology, hospitality and travel, logistics, malls, and real estate and agribusiness, with a presence in more than a dozen countries. Rogers Capital consolidates the group’s financial and technology services, covering corporate and fiduciary administration, technology services and financial advisory.

For a global business structure that needs administration, accounting and technology under one roof, backed by a balance sheet that is not going anywhere, it is a serious option. Where it is the wrong choice: a conglomerate service line is built for repeatable administration at volume. A bespoke, politically sensitive mandate is not what that machine is optimised for.

4 to 7. The Big Four in Mauritius: PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and EY

All four maintain full practices in Mauritius, largely in the Ebène cyber city. PwC has been present since 1984 and KPMG since 1985. Deloitte operates through the long-established Kemp Chatteris practice, one of the largest multi-disciplinary firms in the country. EY runs assurance, tax, strategy and transactions from its Mauritius office. Neither Deloitte nor EY publishes a local founding year we could verify from a primary source, so we do not state one.

The case for the Big Four is straightforward and often decisive. If a fund’s investors, a lender’s credit committee or a regulator expects a recognised name on the opinion, that expectation is itself the specification. They also carry the deepest benches in Mauritius for financial services regulation, transfer pricing and the substance requirements that global business companies must meet.

Where they are the wrong choice: three situations recur. First, independence: your auditor cannot advise you on everything, and the conflict rules are strict for good reason. Second, seniority: the pitch team and the delivery team are frequently different people, and on a small-island engagement that gap is visible. Third, mandates that need a single accountable principal to sit in a ministry meeting, a lender meeting and a technical review in the same week.

8. Grant Thornton Mauritius: mid-tier with partner access

Established in Mauritius in 1999 and part of Grant Thornton International, the firm covers audit and assurance, accounting and business advisory, and positions itself around helping clients expand into sub-Saharan Africa. For an owner-managed or mid-market business that wants a partner who answers the phone, it is frequently the better economic trade than a Big Four engagement letter.

9. Forvis Mazars in Mauritius: the fastest-grown mid-tier practice

The practice now trading as Forvis Mazars in Mauritius opened in 2015 as TK Uday with a team of ten, joined the network the same year, and has grown to a two-office firm of more than 100 professionals, a decade the group publicly marked in 2025. It also publishes some of the more useful public commentary on Mauritius tax treaty policy. Growth that fast is a signal of demand, and a fair question to put to any such firm is how it has kept review quality alongside it.

10. Perigeum Capital: the transaction house

Perigeum Capital is a Mauritius-headquartered corporate finance advisory firm covering capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, valuation, compliance, corporate governance and ESG advisory. In October 2025 it was reported as joining forces with Andersen Consulting, extending its reach into a global network. If you are pricing, structuring or executing a transaction, a dedicated corporate finance house will usually out-execute a generalist.

11. Anex Management Services: fiduciary and administration

Founded in 1994, Anex provides financial, fiduciary and advisory services to international structures administered from Mauritius. This is the unglamorous, essential layer of the Mauritius International Financial Centre: company secretarial work, accounting, and the substance and filing discipline that keeps a global business company compliant. It is not a strategy consultancy and does not present itself as one.

What a "top consultants" list will not tell you

Three things decide the outcome of a Mauritius engagement more reliably than any ranking, including this one.

1. 01Ask who does the work, by name, in writing. Then ask what else those named people are staffed on for the duration. In a market with a finite senior bench, this single question separates the pitch from the delivery.
2. 02Check the conflict position before the proposal, not after. If a firm audits your counterparty, its lender or your joint venture partner, find out at the start. Discovering it mid-mandate is expensive.
3. 03Insist the recommendation names its own failure conditions. Advice that cannot be wrong cannot be tested. A report that specifies what would have to be true for it to fail is worth several that do not.

How to choose, in one paragraph

Buy an audit from an audit firm, a transaction from a corporate finance house, administration from a fiduciary provider, and judgment from a firm that will put a principal in the room. Most disappointing engagements in this market are not the result of a bad firm. They are the result of buying one of those four things from a firm built to deliver a different one.

If your question is the structuring layer rather than the firm, read why Mauritius works as a structuring gateway to Africa. If it is artificial intelligence, read the state of AI consulting in Mauritius. If you are not yet sure whether you need a consultancy at all or a licensed administrator, start with consulting firms vs corporate services in Mauritius. If you have a mandate that crosses jurisdictions and disciplines, tell us about it and we will say plainly whether we are the right firm for it.