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Mr Mushtaq Namdarkhan

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Work Department

Dispute Resolution and Insolvency

Position

Partner

Career

Mushtaq Namdarkhan is a Partner at BLC Robert & Associates in the Dispute Resolution practice area. He is mainly involved in corporate/commercial litigations and arbitrations 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 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.

Mushtaq has co-authored the BLC Robert publication “Why Mauritius? A National Court in Support of International Arbitration” in 2016 and has regularly contributed to the “Chambers Global Practice Guides” on Insolvency and Litigation. He also intervenes as a speaker at several international arbitration conferences, including the East Africa International Arbitration Conference.

Prior to joining BLC Robert, Mushtaq was in the Restructuring and Insolvency Group at the London office of Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills).

Languages

English and French

Memberships

• Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
• Mauritius Bar Association
• MARC 45 (Association of young arbitration practitioners under the aegis of the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry Arbitration Centre)
• Country coordinator, Africa Construction Law
• Board member, Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre

Education

• Diploma in International Arbitration, CIArb
• Diploma in Civil Law, Université de la Réunion
• Admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales
• Sworn in as a barrister, Republic of Mauritius
• LL.M (Commercial Law), University of Cambridge, England
• Called to the Bar of England and Wales, Gray’s Inn
• MA (Hons) Law, University of Cambridge, England