Fatima Gattoo
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.
Areas of expertise
Experience
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.
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.
Involved in the registration of residential mortgage bonds for institutions such as RCS Home Loans, Integer Home Loans and SA Homeloans.
Involved in both commercial and residential property transfers.
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.
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.
Property related due diligence investigations.
Drafting and registration of general and special notarial bonds in various acquisition finance and project finance transactions.
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.
Recognition
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 - 2025 was mentioned for Real Estate.
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
LANGUAGES
- English
