A boutique corporate advisory, family office and fiduciary firm for entrepreneurial families across the Africa–Gulf corridor. One relationship. Full accountability.
Successful entrepreneurs have easy access to a panel of consultants and advisors. What they often lack is someone who sees the whole picture, thinks like them and always works in their best interest – someone they can trust fully.
First-generation families across Africa and the Gulf hold their wealth inside companies — with no consolidated view, weak governance and no succession plan.
Consultants see the business, or part of it. Banks see the portfolio. Fiduciaries see the structure. Nobody sees the whole picture — or takes accountability for it.
Advising the company without advising its owner — and vice versa — leaves value on the table. Families feel this gap and ask their most trusted adviser to fill it.
Our market: families with USD 20–300m of business-centred wealth, across Dubai, Mauritius, East and West Africa.
A client can enter through any door — advisory, family, or structure — and stay for all three.
Transformation, re-engineering, governance, ESG, financial modelling, investment and scalability readiness, valuation and fundraising support — for SMEs and family businesses.
The personal affairs of founders, directors and senior executives: trusts, wealth protection, succession, exits — with wealth management via vetted partners.
The engine: structuring advice, company formation and ongoing administration and accounting across the UAE and Mauritius.
Advise the business. Protect the family. Administer the structure.
Led jointly: strategic and financial advisory by partners business families already call for advice; transformation, governance and ESG delivery led by partners who have built 15+ businesses, chaired listed boards and driven transformation across African markets.
Founders, directors and senior executives — usually the same people whose companies we advise. We become the family's single trusted point of contact: their private advisor, gatekeeper and advocate.
The service line the founding team has built three times before — and the foundation that funds the firm from day one. Positioned as the operational backbone of every advisory and family relationship, never as a commodity.
A client can enter through any pillar. Advisory work surfaces the founder's personal needs; family mandates require structures; every structure needs administration, governance, risk management.
Onaha partners are Mauritian, with careers spanning Mauritius, Dubai, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and pan-African markets. We are at home in the boardroom in the DIFC/MIFC and in the family compound in Eastern or Western Africa.
Clients repeatedly tell us they work with the person, not the firm. Onaha partners have built their 20+ year careers on that trust — and this firm is engineered so it scales beyond any one of us.
We advise the business, protect the family and run the structures. One relationship, one accountable partner — not three vendors pointing at each other.
No investment products to sell. Wealth managers are selected, benchmarked and monitored on the client's behalf, with every fee disclosed.
