RD Chambers is a leading Mauritian law firm, and corporate and commercial set offering legal services to national and multinational clients including listed entities.
About Us
The set’s offering is focused on expertise, innovation, and service standard. Chambers offers legal consultancy, litigation, arbitration and mediation services. Whilst assisting on the full spectrum of corporate and commercial law, Chambers’ core practice areas are corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, employment, offshore and financial services, restructuring and insolvency and taxation.
Members of chambers are regularly involved in many of the high-profile cases and transactions in Mauritius and have extensive experience representing clients before all levels of the local justice system from tribunals to courts including the Supreme Court of Mauritius as well as before international courts such as the COMESA Court of Justice.
Chambers was founded in 1971 by current head of chambers Rashad Daureeawo SC. All of our members are qualified barristers (Middle Temple, UK) or attorneys. Chambers can be instructed as a firm or members can be instructed individually. Members are pleased to work alongside external lawyers, other law firms, and in-house teams.
Chambers is a recommended firm on renowned legal directories: World Tax – Recognized Firm.
About us
The set’s offering is focused on expertise, innovation, and service standard. Chambers offers legal consultancy, litigation, arbitration and mediation services. Whilst assisting on the full spectrum of corporate and commercial law, Chambers’ core practice areas are corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, employment, offshore and financial services, restructuring and insolvency and taxation.
Members of chambers are regularly involved in many of the high-profile cases and transactions in Mauritius and have extensive experience representing clients before all levels of the local justice system from tribunals to courts including the Supreme Court of Mauritius as well as before international courts such as the COMESA Court of Justice.
Chambers was founded in 1971 by current head of chambers Rashad Daureeawo SC. All of our members are qualified barristers (Middle Temple, UK) or attorneys. Chambers can be instructed as a firm or members can be instructed individually. Members are pleased to work alongside external lawyers, other law firms, and in-house teams.
Chambers is a recommended firm on renowned legal directories: World Tax – Recognized Firm.
People
Head of chambers
Counsel
Rubna Daureeawo-Daood, Barrister-at-law
Roshan Daureeawo, Barrister-at-law
Danisha Sornum, Barrister-at-law
Philippe Gad-Olivier Barbe, Barrister-at-law
Attorneys
Operations and administration
Rashad is a Senior Counsel of Mauritius.
He advises across the full spectrum of laws and regularly acts before committees, tribunals and Courts of Mauritius as well as in arbitration cases.
He has previously held the position of chairman of the Mauritius Bar Association and member of the Mauritius Law Reform Commission. He has also acted as High Commissioner of Mauritius. Rashad is a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (UK) and is the president of the Mauritius Middle Temple Association.
Rubna is a barrister-at-law with a practice focused on litigation and alternative dispute resolution across a broad range of areas including commercial, insolvency, employment and civil laws.
She has significant experience appearing before tribunals and courts including the Supreme Court of Mauritius. Rubna also lectured law at the Law Faculty of the University of Mauritius.
Rubna holds two LLBs (one in Mauritian law and the other in UK law) and an LLM in arbitration. Rubna was called to the Bar at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in the UK.
Roshan is a barrister-at-law and assists in both contentious and non contentious matters. Roshan has significant experience advising on public procurement matters.
Prior to joining Chambers, Roshan worked at a Big 4 firm in the UK.
Roshan holds an LLB and an LLM in Banking and Finance. Roshan was called to the Bar at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in UK.
Azmat is a barrister-at-law with a practice focused on business and corporate law. Azmat has significant experience and expertise in the banking and finance, and, financial services industries.
Prior to joining chambers, Azmat practiced within major law firms in Mauritius as well as within inhouse legal teams of major conglomerates in Mauritius.
Azmat was called to the bar in Mauritius and was also called to the bar of England and Wales at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.
Danisha is a barrister-at-law with a practice focused on corporate law and alternative dispute resolution.
Danisha was called to the bar in Mauritius in 2015. Danisha holds an LLB (Honors) from the University of Mauritius, an LLM International Commercial Law, with specialization in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, from the University of Birmingham. Danisha also holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the University of Michigan, USA.
Prior to joining Chambers, Danisha served as member of the Equal Opportunities Commission in Mauritius, and has worked as data and policy analyst at the Center for Education of Women+ at the University of Michigan.
Philippe Gad-Olivier BARBE is a Barrister at Law. He has read law at Northumbria University at Newcastle, U.K where he has been awarded the degree of LLB(Hons.) in 2014 and has been called to the Bar of England & Wales at the Honourable Society of The Middle Temple in 2018.
He is mainly attached to the litigation team at the Chambers.
Olivier is very passionate of Human Rights, he has been involved in the promotion of human rights since his young age. He has also been elected as municipal Councillor of the Town of Beau-Bassin/Rose-Hill in 2015.
Naseebah is an attorney-at-law on the roll of attorneys of Mauritius.
She assists in both contentious and non-contentious matters across a broad range of practice areas in line with chambers profile. Naseebah regularly appears before all courts including the Supreme Court of Mauritius.
Naseebah holds an LLB from the University of London.
Jyoti is responsible for administration and operations at RD Chambers.
She has spent over 10 years at Chambers and has established herself as a key point of contact for clients.