Fatima Gattoo is a Director in our Real Estate Law practice. She specialises in all areas of property law including but not limited to registration of complex securities, township developments and establishments, sectional title developments, and has extensive experience in renewable energy projects.
Fatima began her career in 2006 as a Candidate Attorney with a specialist conveyancing firm. She joined Hofmeyr Herbstein and Gihwala (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) as an Associate in 2007. Fatima was promoted to Director in 2015.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
LLB, University of Johannesburg
Practical Legal Training , Law Society of South Africa – Milpark School
Year of admission as an attorney, notary and conveyancer: 2007
Registered with the Legal Practice Council
About Fatima
Fatima began her career in 2006 as a Candidate Attorney with a specialist conveyancing firm. She joined Hofmeyr Herbstein and Gihwala (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) as an Associate in 2007. Fatima was promoted to Director in 2015.
Credentials
Education
LLB, University of Johannesburg
Practical Legal Training , Law Society of South Africa – Milpark School
Year of admission as an attorney, notary and conveyancer: 2007
Registered with the Legal Practice Council
Experience
Sectional Title Register
Involved and instrumental in the opening of the Sectional Title Register and attending to the transfers in the Milpark Mews scheme of over three hundred units.
Waterfall development
Assisted and involved in the establishment of approximately 65 new townships which includes more than 31,000 erven. New townships includes all of the townships created in the multi-billion rand Waterfall mixed use development in Midrand.
Residential mortgage bonds institutions
Involved in the registration of residential mortgage bonds for institutions such as RCS Home Loans, Integer Home Loans and SA Homeloans.
Property transfers
Involved in both commercial and residential property transfers.
Registration of servitude
Extensively deals with drafting and registration of servitudes for the opening of new townships, as well as drafting and registration of servitudes for institutions such as Rand Water Board and Eskom.
Lease agreements
Drafting agreements relevant to property transactions, including, sale of land agreements, sale of letting enterprise agreements, option and sale agreements in respect of agricultural land, lease agreements, long term lease agreements and tender documents.
Due diligence investigations
Property related due diligence investigations.
General and special notarial bonds
Drafting and registration of general and special notarial bonds in various acquisition finance and project finance transactions.
Momentous Energy
Advising Momentous Energy on the securing of land tenure and associated real rights for a solar photovoltaic power plant. Mandate included the drafting, negotiation and bringing to execution of all land tenure and real right documents pursuant to the IPP Procurement Programme. The project achieved Financial Close under Round One of the IPP Procurement Programme.
