Fatima Gattoo
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.
About Fatima
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
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
Languages
- English
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
Languages
- English
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.
News
Breaking ground: women still need to fight for equal property rights
Fatima Gattoo, Director in the Real Estate practice was recently featured on FA News where she discussed Breaking ground: women still need to fight for equal property rights
Empowering cyber-resilience in South African conveyancing: Navigating challenges and crafting solutions
In the ever-evolving landscape of property transactions, conveyancing has undergone a transformative shift from traditional, paper-bound practices to a digital era marked by efficiency...
Pre-emptive rights and property transactions
A pre-emptive right in a lease agreement creates an obligation on the registered owner to offer the property to the lessee first, should the owner decide to sell it. The Deon Nel v...
Sectional Title Amendment Bill
The Sectional Title Amendment Bill was introduced by the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development to the National Assembly on 2 November2020. The Bill was passed by...
Latent defects, patent defects and voetstoots
Have you purchased your dream home, only weeks later to find out that your walls are damp? Perhaps the window was shattered? Or do you now find yourself in a position where you have...
Market recognition
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 - 2025 was mentioned for Real Estate.
Market recognition
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 - 2025 was mentioned for Real Estate.
