1. Corporate and Business Law
We provide to our diverse portfolio of domestic and international clients an extensive range of consultancy and advisory services relating to all aspects of corporate and business law, including:

• Comprehensive support in the structuring, setting up and organisation of corporate structures
• Advising on, drafting and vetting of legal documents
• Setting up joint ventures
• Advising on issues arising out of the day to day management of companies
• Conducting due diligence and company searches
• Drafting and vetting of statutory documents including constitutions, fund documentations, placement documents etc.
• Drafting and vetting of corporate and contractual agreements
• Advising on issues relating to share capital, shareholder rights including class rights, conversion rights
• redemption and transfer of shares
• Winding up and dissolution
• Restructurings

2. Commercial
We offer a complete range of legal services relating to all aspects of commercial law applicable in Mauritius. Typical areas of commercial law addressed by our firm concern securities and charges pertaining to shares and immovable properties – hence pledge agreements, fixed and floating charge documents, mortgages and privileges are commonly handled by us.

3. Non Banking Financial Services
Since the coming into effect of the Financial Services Development Act 2001, non banking financial services including global business activities, the stock exchange and the insurance sector have been grouped under the umbrella and general supervision of the Financial Services Commission. A number of our clients operate in the non banking financial services sector and we have, over the years, followed the evolution of the legal and regulatory framework within which these sectors have been called upon to operate. We have also kept abreast with and worked in close collaboration with the Financial Services Commission, thus gaining a proper understanding of its operations and mission.

4. Banking
The banking sector has undergone major changes worldwide as in Mauritius over the past few years. A new regulatory framework was introduced in 2006 with the coming into effect of a new Banking Act followed by the consequential adjustments which operators of the banking sector were called upon to adhere to. We have keenly followed the above changes and have steered a number of our clients through those transitional moments. We have advised a number of banking institutions on legal issues respecting banking transactions and are well versed with the operation of multi jurisdictional transactions involving banks and financial institutions. We have had the privilege of having a number of international banking institutions of repute amongst our client base and have also been called upon to collaborate with the World Bank on the compilation of jurisdictional reports and surveys.

5. Employment law
The practice of labour law and more general aspects of the Mauritian employment law, is an important aspect of our practice. We offer a complete range of services respecting industrial relations including assisting in disciplinary committees, advising on labour matters and trade union relations, assisting in the setting up and implementation of codes of conduct, assisting in the handling of labour disputes and providing litigation services in labour issues. We are also very involved in the drafting of contracts of employment and are equally familiar with the legal aspects of expatriate employment.

6. Cross Border transactions
Ever since the opening up of the Mauritian economy to the creation of a financial services sector in 1992, we have been involved in and witnessed the evolution of the global business sector in Mauritius. We accordingly have considerable exposure to the operation of global business activities and are perfectly comfortable working with any law firm in the world as part of a cross border transaction. Over the years we have gathered considerable experience in dealing with a great variety of cross border transactions including the setting up of collective investment vehicles, trusts, mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. We are also very familiar with the operation of tax treaties and the structuring of transactions maximising on treaty benefits.

7. Litigation
We are able to provide litigation support services of the highest standard through our litigation team which is headed by Urmila Boolell. We appear mostly before the Intermediate court, the Industrial court, the Bankruptcy court and the Supreme Court and our most common areas of practice include labour law, contract and commercial law, injunctions, intellectual property law and property law cases.

8. Trust
Our firm has been actively involved in witnessing the introduction of a legal framework for the setting up and management of trusts in 1992. With the coming into effect of the Trusts Act 2001, we have extended our practice of trust law to dealing with growing numbers of domestic trusts, especially in the field of pensions.

9. Property law
We frequently advise on property law issues especially relating to leases and ownership of immovable properties. We have developed expertise in the drafting of leases and in advising on the interpretation of title deeds and leases. More recently, with the coming into operation of a statutory framework for the development of the Integrated Resorts Scheme, we have become increasingly involved in dealing with foreigners wishing to acquire property in Mauritius.

10. Others
We have been called upon to respond to a plethora of requests from our corporate clients regarding the application of a variety of legal issues on all areas of the law .We are accordingly very open to exploring and researching on all areas of law , even those which may not be directly relevant to our mainstream corporate and commercial business.