Sabeeha Kathrada
Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc
Related services and key industries
Biography
Sabeeha is a Senior Associate in the corporate and commercial litigation team based in Johannesburg, with a focus on the regulatory, compliance and investigations practice.
Sabeeha has advised clients in the public and private sectors on various aspects of regulatory law and a wide-ranging consideration of risk-advisory matters, including business ethics and anti-corruption, investigations and compliance advice.
On business ethics and anti-corruption, Sabeeha has assisted clients on aspects of complex corporate investigations and white-collar crime, and provides clients with end-to-end investigation support, including conducting eReviews and advising on root-cause analysis, control failures, remedial actions and reporting obligations.
Sabeeha also deeply involved in conducting third party and business partner due diligence, including verification, adverse media, politically exposed persons and sanctions screenings, and advising on consequent risks.
She also supports clients to navigate the broad spectrum of regulatory and compliance challenges and is involved in the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing practices.
Sabeeha regularly provides clients with business ethics and anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering training, and assists clients to draft and develop anti-corruption and anti-money laundering compliance programs.
Sabeeha has experience in various aspects of corporate governance, as well as in corporate and commercial disputes.
Professional experience
Collapse all- LLB, with distinction, University of the Witwatersrand
- BA (International Relations and Law) University of the Witwatersrand
- Attorney, qualified in South Africa 2019
- A multinational mining company – Conducting reviews and preparing anti-corruption due diligence reports of potential business partners
- A multinational nutrition company – Conducting reviews and preparing anti-corruption due diligence reports of potential third-party distributors.
- Oil and gas company – Assist with and advise on two complex investigations, working alongside forensic investigators, and manage investigations
- Multinational industrial company – Conduct an internal investigation into allegations of misconduct pertaining to a data breach
- Financial institution – Conduct an internal investigation into allegations of misconduct against senior management and external consultant and provide advice thereto
- Listed packaged goods company – Conduct an internal investigation in respect of allegations of misconduct against senior management and provide legal advice thereto, as well as civil recovery litigation
- Multinational logistics provider - Conduct an internal investigation in respect of allegations of misconduct against senior South African management and provide legal advice thereto as well as civil recovery litigation
- Listed multi-national African supermarket group – Assist with and advise on complex cross-border internal forensic accounting investigation, working alongside big four accounting firm, on instructions of Board committee.
- National Sporting Body - Conduct an internal investigation for and advising the client pursuant to allegations of management misconduct
- Global consulting and advisory firm – Advise the client as part of a full-fledged risk-advisory mandate dealing with the entity's global corporate structure, corporate governance, policies and procedures and legal, regulatory and reputational considerations.
- Multinational luxury goods retailer – Advise the client on its anti-money laundering obligations in South Africa and assist the client to develop and draft compliance programme
- Multinational mining company - Advise the client on its anti-money laundering obligations in South Africa
- Multinational audit and consulting firm - Advise the client on its anti-money laundering obligations in South Africa
- Large development finance institution - Advice in relation to procurement processes pursuant to panel appointments
- Various clients – Assist various clients to review or draft anti-bribery and corruption policies and procedures
- Co-author of the South African chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide "Corporate Investigations: A practical cross-border insight into corporate investigations", fourth edition
- Co-author of the Legal 500 Country Comparative Guide on Bribery and Corruption for the South Africa chapter
- Co-author of the Norton Rose Fulbright Global Guide to Legal Privilege from a South Africa perspective
- English
Insights
Corporate self-reporting: Weighing the cost of coming clean
Publication | January 02, 2025
Corruption affecting the mining industry: Reflections from the 2024 Mining Indaba
Publication | February 13, 2024