Mauritius

When drafting an international agreement, the focus is often on financial clauses or liability exemption and less attention and strategy is given to jurisdiction clause. Nevertheless, this point should not be neglected. Consequences of jurisdiction clause are important when a dispute arises between the parties above all, when one of the parties is affected by an asymmetric jurisdiction clause.

VEIL OF INCORPORATION Under Mauritius law, a company duly incorporated is a separate legal entity distinct from its shareholders, its employees and its individual directors[1]. Then, a director cannot be confounded with the company he manages and the company creates a veil between third parties and its directors and officers.[2]

Mauritius is the first country in the southern hemisphere to have recently revamped its data protection legal regime by repealing the previous Data Protection Act 2004 ("DPA 2004") and adopting a new law, namely the Data Protection Act 2017 ("DPA 2017") following the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) ("GDPR") in the European Union.