Yusuf Omar

Associate

Yusuf Omar is an Associate in our Corporate & Commercial practice. Yusuf assists the team with mergers and acquisitions, renewable energy transactions, drafting and reviewing commercial agreements and due diligence investigations.

Yusuf Omar

About Yusuf

Yusuf joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Candidate Attorney in 2021 and was appointed as an Associate in 2023.  

Areas of expertise

Experience

  • Yusuf has experience in renewable energy transactional work, such as drafting transaction documents, conducting legal due diligence investigations, drafting due diligence reports and assisting with company secretarial work, including the drafting of resolutions and other company constitutional documents.

Credentials

Education

  • LLB, University of South Africa

LANGUAGES

  • English

News

The magic wand of reinstatement of a deregistered company
Corporate & Commercial Law

The magic wand of reinstatement of a deregistered company

It is a common occurrence to discover after the fact that a company was deregistered (and thus legally did not exist) during a period in which it concluded multiple juristic acts....

Non-executive, non-negotiable: Social and ethics committee membership
Corporate & Commercial Law

Non-executive, non-negotiable: Social and ethics committee membership

A recent ruling by the Companies Tribunal (Tribunal) in the matter of Xone Control Room Management (Pty) Ltd, Ex Parte (11 September 2024) has clarified the limits of the Tribunal’s...

Can the enforcement of an international arbitral award be stayed pending the finalisation of a separate action instituted in court?
Dispute Resolution

Can the enforcement of an international arbitral award be stayed pending the finalisation of a separate action instituted in court?

The High Court in Industrius D.O.O v IDS Industry Service and Plant Construction South Africa (Pty) Ltd JOL 51033 (GJ) recently dealt with this issue.

Exemption clauses and liability for damages
Dispute Resolution

Exemption clauses and liability for damages

Pens are mightier than swords! None more so than the one used to draft exemption clauses, aka “disclaimer clauses”. An exemption clause is a contractual modification to the common...

POPIA and the disclosure of an employee’s vaccination status
Employment Law

POPIA and the disclosure of an employee’s vaccination status

The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) provides for the protection of personal information processed by public and private bodies. Whilst POPIA defines personal...

Extended COVID-19 TERS relief
Employment Law

Extended COVID-19 TERS relief

After much anticipation, the Minister of Labour and Employment has now gazetted Directions on the extension of the COVID-19 TERS benefits. Whilst dated 26 February 2021, the Directions...

Extended COVID-19 TERS benefits and tool kit for a TERS audit
Employment Law

Extended COVID-19 TERS benefits and tool kit for a TERS audit

Since the President’s announcement at the State of the Nation Address, that the COVID-19 TERS would be extended until 5 March 2021, the social partners at NEDLAC have been working...

COVID-19 TERS Relief Scheme and other employee benefits
Employment Law

COVID-19 TERS Relief Scheme and other employee benefits

One of the notable highlights of the State of the Nation address delivered by the President on Thursday evening, 11 February 2021, was the announcement of the extension of the COVID-19...

The magic wand of reinstatement of a deregistered company
Corporate & Commercial Law

The magic wand of reinstatement of a deregistered company

It is a common occurrence to discover after the fact that a company was deregistered (and thus legally did not exist) during a period in which it concluded multiple juristic acts....

Non-executive, non-negotiable: Social and ethics committee membership
Corporate & Commercial Law

Non-executive, non-negotiable: Social and ethics committee membership

A recent ruling by the Companies Tribunal (Tribunal) in the matter of Xone Control Room Management (Pty) Ltd, Ex Parte (11 September 2024) has clarified the limits of the Tribunal’s...

Can the enforcement of an international arbitral award be stayed pending the finalisation of a separate action instituted in court?
Dispute Resolution

Can the enforcement of an international arbitral award be stayed pending the finalisation of a separate action instituted in court?

The High Court in Industrius D.O.O v IDS Industry Service and Plant Construction South Africa (Pty) Ltd JOL 51033 (GJ) recently dealt with this issue.

Exemption clauses and liability for damages
Dispute Resolution

Exemption clauses and liability for damages

Pens are mightier than swords! None more so than the one used to draft exemption clauses, aka “disclaimer clauses”. An exemption clause is a contractual modification to the common...

POPIA and the disclosure of an employee’s vaccination status
Employment Law

POPIA and the disclosure of an employee’s vaccination status

The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) provides for the protection of personal information processed by public and private bodies. Whilst POPIA defines personal...

Extended COVID-19 TERS relief
Employment Law

Extended COVID-19 TERS relief

After much anticipation, the Minister of Labour and Employment has now gazetted Directions on the extension of the COVID-19 TERS benefits. Whilst dated 26 February 2021, the Directions...

Extended COVID-19 TERS benefits and tool kit for a TERS audit
Employment Law

Extended COVID-19 TERS benefits and tool kit for a TERS audit

Since the President’s announcement at the State of the Nation Address, that the COVID-19 TERS would be extended until 5 March 2021, the social partners at NEDLAC have been working...

COVID-19 TERS Relief Scheme and other employee benefits
Employment Law

COVID-19 TERS Relief Scheme and other employee benefits

One of the notable highlights of the State of the Nation address delivered by the President on Thursday evening, 11 February 2021, was the announcement of the extension of the COVID-19...

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