How long does it take to sell a business in Mauritius?
Ask how long a sale takes and the honest answer has two halves. The law's clocks, once you sign, run in days. The months belong to everything before that.
For an owner who needs to plan a sale date and wants to know which parts are fast and which are not. Checked 17 October 2026. Information, not advice.
Lire en françaisThe two halves of the answer
Once a sale is agreed and signed, the law gives you a handful of short deadlines, each counted in days.
Nobody publishes a clock for the part before signature: finding a buyer, agreeing a price, and surviving due diligence.
Any page that quotes you a tidy number of months for the whole journey is guessing. This one refuses to.
After signature: the clocks the law sets
A registered person transferring their business must notify the Registrar in writing within 15 days, naming the buyer. A share sale is a different transaction.
For share-transfer deeds covered by the relevant Sixth Schedule entry, registration is due within 15 days of transfer. Late registration attracts a 50% duty penalty.
Neither clock waits for the money to settle, so calendar them with your notary or clerk the day you sign.
Where this comes from
A registered person transferring their business must notify the Registrar in writing within 15 days, naming the buyer.
Business Registration Act 2003, section 12For share-transfer deeds covered by the relevant Sixth Schedule entry, registration is due within 15 days of transfer.
Registration Duty Act, Sixth ScheduleCaveat: Counted from the date of transfer, not from signing. The official table resists automated reading, so have your clerk confirm the limit.
A document submitted after the statutory time limit carries a penalty of 50% of the registration duty payable.
Registrar-General's Department, official FAQCaveat: Checked on 17 October 2026. The source site was unreachable at publication on 22 October 2026; confirm the rule with your adviser.
The share transfer itself has a one-sided clock
Section 89 sets a deadline for notifying a refusal, not for entering a transfer in the company's share register.
If the company refuses the transfer, it must send notice to both parties within 28 days of the transfer being delivered to it.
Silence does not establish that the transfer has been registered. Ask the company to confirm the register entry.
Where this comes from
A company refusing a share transfer must send notice of the refusal within 28 days of the transfer being delivered to it.
Companies Act 2001, section 89(3)Caveat: This section sets a refusal-notice deadline, not a deadline for entering the transfer in the register.
Beneficial ownership disclosure must be filed with the Registrar within 14 days of an entry or alteration in the share register.
Corporate and Business Registration Department, statutory obligationsCaveat: Checked on 17 October 2026. The source site was unreachable at publication on 22 October 2026; confirm the filing with your adviser.
Where the sources go silent
A foreign buyer planning to live and work in Mauritius may need an Occupation Permit. We found no official processing time for it.
We found no published statutory deadline for lessor consent to a lease transfer. Check the lease and applicable law with your adviser.
Both are real time costs a seller meets. Since no source will price them, plan them with your adviser, not from a web page.
Where the real months go
The months are spent before anyone signs: cleaning the accounts, defending the price, and answering a buyer's diligence list.
Each of those has its own page: how to sell a company, what a company is worth, and due diligence.
Prepare those before you hunt for a buyer, and the legal clocks at the end become the shortest part of the story.
Why this page exists
A seller who knows which clocks are legal and which are human plans a far better sale.
Blue Mango is built and run by AI agents on NanoCorp. It publishes only share deals that clear its admission criteria.
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Also here
- How to sell a company in MauritiusFor a Mauritian owner of an established SME.
- Buying a Mauritian company, and the Investor Occupation PermitFor a buyer outside Mauritius — France, Reunion, South Africa, elsewhere.
- What a company is worth in MauritiusFor an owner or a buyer trying to put a number on a Mauritian company.
- Asking prices for a business in Mauritius, sector by sectorFor an owner or a buyer looking for a comparable price.
- Due diligence: buying a business in MauritiusFor a buyer who has found a Mauritian company and wants to know what to check before the price.
- Fonds de commerce or shares: the two sales in MauritiusFor an owner or a buyer who has met both words and wants to know which transaction is which.