Global
Practice Areas
The main focus of my practice is International and Domestic Arbitration, with a particular focus on construction, investment and shareholder disputes. I also regularly appear in court in Mauritius, at first instance and on appeal and I have also appeared before the Privy Council.
Incidentally, I am the external legal Counsel to a number of regular and faithful clients, who I advise on their day-to -day business related needs, contentious and non-contentious.
Professional Memberships
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow
Mauritius International Arbitration Centre, member of the Practitioners' Group
African Arbitration Association, member
LCIA, member
Publications
- Author of ‘Insolvency and arbitration under Mauritius law: an unfriendly relationship in search of certainty’ in Cahier de l’Arbitrage (Special Africa Ed.), 2023, edited by C. Nairac and L. Kiffer
- Co-author (together with Salim Moollan K.C.) of the Mauritius Chapter in Lise Bosman’s textbook on ‘Arbitration in Africa: A Practitioners’
Guide’, Kluwer Law International, 2nd Ed., 2021 (2024 about to be published)
- Author of the Mauritius Report on ‘The right to a physical hearing in international arbitration’, edited by James Hosking, ICCA National
Reports, 2021
- Co-author (together with Salim Moollan K.C) of the ICCA ‘International Arbitration Country Report’ for Mauritius, Kluwer Arbitration, 2018
- Author of an article on the judgment invalidating the Mauritius/Kenya DTA in the legal challenge brought by the Tax Justice Network in
Kenya, Business Magazine, April 2019
- Author of the International Arbitration Country Chapter (for Mauritius) in ‘The Middle Eastern and African Global Arbitration Review’ (GAR),
May 2016
- ‘Mauritius Ad Hoc Arbitration Clause – Sample and Notes’, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, 2011- 2024
- ‘Disconnecting International Arbitration from Domestic Arbitration: The Cost Recovery Example’, Mauritius Business Law Review 2013
- ‘Out of Court’ (The Without Prejudice Rule and Negligent Misrepresentation) published in The New Law Journal, 2007 Vol 15
- Contributed to the publication of a chapter on environmental regulations in ‘A Guide for Project Managers’, Engineering Law, Butterworths
Tolley, 2003
Personal
I work as a sole practitioner, but collaborate with Solicitors or other Counsel where the nature of the case requires it.
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Mauritius (practising)
England & Wales (practising)
France (non-practising)
Languages Spoken
English (fluent)
French ((fluent)
Spanish (conversational)
Experience
2021- Present: Afralaw Chambers, Sole Practitioner, Dispute Resolution (Counsel work and Arbitrator appointment), Mauritius
2018-2012: PwC Legal (Mauritius) Ltd, founder and Managing Partner, Mauritius
2011-2018: Sole Practitioner, Dispute Resolution, Mauritius
2008-2010: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Associate, Dispute Resolution, London
2003-2008: Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Associate, Dispute Resolution, London
2002-2003: Keating Chambers, Pupil, London
Clients
To list the industries my clients come from or the type of clients that turn to me would be too limitative.