MAURITIUS Law and Practice Contributed by: André Robert and Mushtaq Namdarkhan, BLC Robert & Associates
BLC Robert & Associates is a leading inde- pendent business law firm in Mauritius. The firm has seven partners and over 30 locally and in- ternationally trained lawyers. It is a member of the Africa Legal Network (ALN), which is recog- nised by international directories as the leading legal network in Africa. The firm has four main practice areas, which are corporate and M&A, banking and finance, financial services and compliance, and dispute resolution, and it of-
fers the full service of attorney and counsel in a range of commercial disputes, whether before the courts or arbitral tribunals. With the promul- gation of the International Arbitration Act 2008 and the setting up of institutions geared for in- ternational commercial arbitration in the juris- diction, the firm has built its capacity in that area and has handled a range of high-value complex arbitrations in contractual disputes, construc- tion, hospitality, oil and gas, and private equity.
Authors
André Robert is a senior attorney and partner at BLC Robert & Associates, and co-heads the firm’s dispute resolution group. He has been a lecturer in civil law at the Council
Mushtaq Namdarkhan is a partner at BLC Robert & Associates within the dispute resolution department and is mainly involved in corporate/ commercial litigation and
of Legal Education and is a former vice- chairman of the Mauritius Law Society. André has been involved in providing legal advice to commercial firms; banks; insurance, sugar, petroleum and textile companies; hotels; and parastatal bodies, and in handling litigation for those entities. He is frequently involved in offshore litigation, Supreme Court chambers work in support of international arbitration, and intellectual property litigation. He also often takes part in local and international arbitrations.
arbitration, as well as insolvency and restructuring transactions. Mushtaq regularly appears before the Supreme Court of Mauritius in shareholder disputes, banking litigation and construction disputes, among others. He appears before the designated judges under the International Arbitration Act in applications involving the International Arbitration Act and the Convention for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards Act. He is also involved in a number of high-value domestic and international commercial arbitrations.
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