Senior Associate
Nomlayo Mabhena-Mlilo is a Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution practice. She focuses on commercial litigation with specific attention to property and property finance-related litigation for major financial institutions. She further focuses on project finance litigation for State-Owned Enterprises, and has experience in petroleum franchising litigation. Her practice extends to administrative law, business rescue, and insolvency law. Highlight work for Nomlayo includes obtaining interdicts; assisting with private enquiries into the trade, dealings, affairs, or property of insolvent companies unable to pay their debts to development corporations, and reviewing proceedings in respect of irregular termination of tenders awarded to various entities by public bodies for the supply of personal protective equipment to the state.
Nomlayo joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Candidate Attorney in 2017 and has gained experience in the Dispute Resolution, Employment as well as the Real Estate and Conveyancing practices. Nomlayo was appointed as an Associate in 2019 and promoted to Senior Associate in 2022.
Nomlayo is part of a team which specializes in various aspects of commercial litigation and in providing on-going legal advice for some of South Africa's major banking institutions as well as leading petro-chemical companies.
Nomlayo's experience in this field includes:
Real Estate and Conveyancing
"Be resilient, the world is your oyster", says Nomlayo Mabhena-Mlilo, Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution practice. Nomlayo recently formed part of a panel on SABC 3's Unfiltered, to unpack the strides, struggles and solutions for women in South Africa.
Nomlayo Mabhena, Associate in our Dispute Resolution practice appeared on Daily Thetha, an educational talk show on SABC 1 that explores youth issues, as well as issues of national importance. She formed part of a panel that discussed the legalities and laws surrounding home ownership in South Africa, especially when there are disputes involved. The episode focused on the notion of adequate shelter by looking at navigating home ownership as black South Africans.
Dispute Resolution Associate, Nomlayo Mabhena, was recently named the youngest black female attorney to be admitted as a conveyancer. She joined SAFM's Late Night Conversation with Patricia Ntuli to discuss her achievement and to unpack the complexities of transformation within the real estate and law industries.
