MAURITIUS Law and Practice Contributed by: Fayaz Hajee Abdoula, Yashna Munbauhal and Yojna Beesoon, BLC Robert & Associates
BLC Robert & Associates is a leading independent business law firm in Mauritius with the largest number of fee earners. The firm’s membership of the Africa Legal Network (ALN) strengthens its position as the leading provider of legal services, both locally and into the African continent, through the presence of member law firms in 15 African jurisdictions. The firm has seven partners and four main practice areas: cor - porate and commercial, banking and finance, finan - cial services and regulatory, and dispute resolution.
Due to its size, the firm has been able to create fur - ther specialised sub-practice groups: business law, M&A, employment, taxation, real estate and hospital - ity, insolvency, capital markets, and technology, me - dia and telecommunications. The team specialises in offering innovative tax structures and products to en - sure cost-efficient financing, mitigate excessive tax exposure and streamline multi-jurisdictional transac - tions and re-organisations.
Authors
Fayaz Hajee Abdoula is the co-managing partner at BLC Robert & Associates and leads the corporate and commercial team. Over the last ten years, he has advised a multitude of clients, involving a number of
Yashna Munbauhal is a senior associate at BLC Robert & Associates in the corporate and commercial team. She advises on domestic and cross-border corporate and commercial transactions, including
sizeable M&A transactions, joint ventures, private equity firms, regulated entities, listed companies, hotels and multinationals, amongst others. His expertise has led him to be a trusted adviser to leading companies in the tax industry. Fayaz is also a former member of the Alternative Tax Dispute Resolution Panel, an independent panel established by the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) to find mutual agreements in respect of large tax disputes.
M&A, corporate restructuring and business law matters. She has experience in conducting due diligence exercises and in drafting/negotiating legal documentation relating to corporate and commercial transactions. She also handles a wide range of tax matters involving domestic and international tax advisory work.
Yojna Beesoon is an associate at BLC Robert & Associates sitting within the M&A and business law practice group. She advises primarily on an array of M&A and private equity transactions, focusing both on
domestic and cross-border private acquisitions and divestitures. She is regularly involved in heavy due diligence exercises and in putting together transaction documents. She also lends support on tax matters on the back of corporate restructuring exercises.
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