Tax Advisory Firm of the Year Contact

Viva Africa Consulting LLP P.O. Box 75079 00200 Nairobi Kenya

Tel : +254737772483 Email : info@vivaafricallp.com Firm Profile

Viva Africa Consulting LLP (VACL) is a specialised legal and financial tax advisory firm providing tax advice in personal, business and investment matters. VACL comprises of some of the leading experts in East African taxation, all of whom have gained their experience from many years of practice with a ‘big four’ a professional firm.

Our professionals are widely acknowledged as being amongst the leading tax and business advisors in the region having developed reputations as reliable providers of high quality, value adding and practical tax advice

in their various specialist areas. Our combined specialisation in legal and financial outlook enables us to seamlessly provide tax advice and solutions as well as enable us assist our clients in implementing the same.

Through the years VACL professionals have gained the experience in tax, legal and financial matters in the region to include Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Zambia. Through our associates in Africa, we are in a position to assist in tax, legal and financial matters in the rest of Africa.

Funds Firm of the Year Contact

Andre le Roux Tel: +27 (0)21 681 8010 Fax: +27 (0)21 681 8110 Email: andre.leroux@maitlandgroup.com Website: www.maitlandgroup.com

VACL comprises of some of the leading experts in East African taxation

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Firm Profile

Maitland is an international legal, fiduciary and fund services firm with $145 billion assets under administration. The company was founded in Luxembourg in 1976 and serves a prestigious base of private, corporate and institutional clients. Specialising in cross-border solutions, it employs 700 people in 15 offices across 13 countries including: BVI, Cayman, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, Isle of Man, London, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, South Africa and the United States.

In the fund services arena, Maitland is one of the world’s fastest-growing fund administrators. We are a one-stop shop for fund administration. Regardless of your fund strategies, we provide comprehensive fund management administration and reporting solutions. In line with international convergence

trends, we provide a high degree of integration between front, middle and back office functions, as well as market, system and client integration.

Our world-class SunGard platform offers a high level of automation and straight-through-processing, allowing us to administer the full range of investment strategies including traditional funds, mutual funds, managed account and multi-manager platforms, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, private equity and real estate funds.

In October 2012, Maitland acquired Admiral Administration, an award-winning hedge fund administrator headquartered in the Cayman Islands. The objective is to establish Admiral Administration as our specialist hedge fund administrator in the group, operating in multiple jurisdictions, both

onshore and offshore. Admiral Administration was voted Best Offshore Administrator by Hedgeweek in 2011 and at the recent HFM awards in New York, Admiral was a finalist for Best Technology for an Administrator among other industry leaders such as SS&C GlobeOp, Citi, State Street, and Citco.

Maitland’s onshore and offshore funds practice provides an end-to-end service to promoters and managers of funds. If you are a promoter or manager of funds, Maitland can advise you on the optimum fund vehicle and the best choice of domicile for your fund. We can set it up and list it, administer it and advise on the fund’s portfolio structure. As your strategic partner, we enter into a collaborative relationship with you, so that we can anticipate and meet your evolving business needs.

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