Fatima Laher has been appointed Group Executive: Group Legal by MTN Group, a pan-African mobile and telecommunications provider. Her appointment will take effect on October 1, 2022. Her return to MTN follows six years of working for Samsung Electronics as Head of Africa Disputes.
Lele Modise, Group Chief Legal and Regulatory officer, said, “Fatima is adept at providing expert strategic and innovative advice to senior leadership in the prestigious institutions she has worked for locally and internationally.”
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What will Fatima do as the New Executive for MTN Group Legal?
Fatima is an experienced legal executive with a wide range of skills and expertise in various fields. Her areas of specialisation include, but are not limited to, the management of high-value cross-border litigation, legal risk mitigation and corporate investigations, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial law.
As Executive: Group Legal, she will be an important part of the MTN Group’s executive team. She will help oversee all legal areas, handle legal risks, support strategic projects and initiatives, and help roll out the company’s Group Legal & Regulatory strategy.
“As Executive: Group Legal, Fatima will provide support in overseeing all legal areas and managing legal risk, supporting strategic projects and initiatives across MTN Group, as well as supporting the implementation of the Group Legal & Regulatory strategy,” concluded Modise.
Fatima brings more than 25 years of legal expertise to MTN, having held numerous positions in pan-African (Bowman Gilfillan Africa Group) and worldwide (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP (Dubai) and Norton Rose Fulbright LLP) law firms before joining MTN. Edward Nathan Sonnenberg’s Africa; (Dubai). Her prior positions include Executive: Group Commercial Legal, Regulatory and Compliance at MTN Group and Partner (Director) at Bowman Gilfillan Africa Group, where she was responsible for corporate compliance and investigations. She also worked at MTN Group.
She was granted admission to practice law by the High Court of South Africa. She attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Laws, and an Honors in Law degree. All of her degrees were earned in legal studies.
About MTN Group
MTN Group is a mobile and telecommunications provider that serves the whole of Africa. The company was established in 1994. MTN is a South African telecommunications company that has its headquarters in Johannesburg and is traded on the JSE Securities Exchange under the ticker symbol “MTN.” MTN operates in Afghanistan, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, the Republic of Guinea, Iran, Liberia, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Uganda, Yemen, and Zambia. The company has 232 million mobile subscribers and 20 million mobile money subscribers. MTN’s goal is to become the industry leader in delivering a revolutionary new digital world. A big part of this goal is to give customers a world-class