Imraan Mahomed
About Imraan
Imraan Mohamed joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in 2020 having led a team of employment lawyers after the restructure of the Johannesburg office of Hogan Lovells.He has practiced in the field of employment law representing business for over 20 years. Imraan commenced articles at Deneys Reitz (now Norton Rose Fulbright) in 2001 and became a Director in its employment department and practiced with the legacy firm. He left in 2007 to join Routledge Modise to expand its employment law offering where the firm at some point rebranded as Hogan Lovells in South Africa, and eventually thereafter to Lawtons Africa. Imraan has also advised clients in various jurisdictions across Africa on employment and business crime related matters.
Areas of expertise
Employment
LawCorporate Debt,
Turnaround &
Restructuring
Corporate & White Collar
Investigations
Pensions &
Employee Benefits
Mining &
MineralsPublic
Law
Immigration LawHealthcare &
PharmaceuticalsTechnology & CommunicationsExperience
- In dealing with various forms of litigation in different courts and other fora, Imraan has advised on a wide range of disputes from defending whistleblower complaints, all forms of unfair discrimination and unfair dismissal, unlawful competition, reinstatement disputes, damages and compensation claims against unions, and varying forms of collective bargaining disputes.
- Imraan has vast experience in dealing with all issues affecting employers in contentious and non-contentious matters. He provides clients with effective strategies on all employment related matters, both at collective and individual level. He advises and does training across various industries. Imraan has a keen interest in post-employment restrictive law and has been the lead attorney in a number of restraint of trade disputes in court. He regularly advises executive management on their strategic and business critical employment related issues. Imraan has also lead a number of business due diligence exercises, across various industries, with a focus on issues related to employment, retirement funds and immigration.
- Imraan has over the years also built an expertise which extends to dealing with business crime pre-emptively as well as where it becomes contentious in representing businesses. Imraan has also represented senior executives in director, shareholder and employee related matters. He has led and been involved in numerous workplace investigations and advising on action to be taken following a workplace investigation. Imraan has also advised across various industries on business restructures and strategies on managing union relationships as well as dealing with picket lines disputes and other forms of industrial action disputes.
Recognition
- Chambers Global 2021– 2026 ranked Imraan Mahomed in Band 2 for employment and in Band 3 from 2014–2020.
- The Legal 500 EMEA 2020 – 2025 recommended him for employment.
Credentials
Education
- BCom LLB (cum laude), Nelson Mandela University
- LLM (Labour Law), University of Johannesburg
- Certificate of Competence: Cyber Law, Wits
- Certificate Advanced Administrative Law
- Certificate Adv Admin Law, University of Witwatersrand
- Certificate Pension Fund Law II, University of Witwatersrand
- Year of admission as an attorney: 2003
- Registered with the Legal Practice Council
Memberships
- The South African Society for Labour Law (SASLAW). Gauteng Chapter Committee member and member of the SASLAW national committee.
LANGUAGES
- English
- Afrikaans
