Naseem Ameer-Mia
Background[edit]
Naseem Ameer-Mia (Arabic: نسیم; born 10 May 1985) is a prominent South African lawyer[1], currently residing in Johannesburg.
Naseem is an active philanthropist, and is the sole trustee of his family trust supporting underprivileged females with university scholarships, as well as raising charitable gains for local football academies, particularly Grassroots Soccer in South Africa[2] and providing pro bono counsel to the development arm of the South African Cricket Academy. Professionally, Naseem has been instrumental in positioning South Africa as a destination for outsourcing commercial legal services globally by alternative legal service businesses and elite global law firms, and remains a strong advocate for modernising the legal services industry in South Africa.
Qualifications and career[edit]
Naseem holds dual bachelor degrees in economics and law from the University of Cape Town, and was a class medalist in his final year at law school[3]. Naseem also holds an MBA from Warwick Business School[4]. He has conducted his professional training at large multi-national law firms[5], and currently leads the corporate alternative legal services arm for Herbert Smith Freehills in South Africa.
Early life[edit]
Naseem was born in Pretoria, South Africa before relocating to Dublin, Ireland during the Apartheid troubles in South Africa owing to the harassment his family suffered as a result of his parents entering into a mixed race marriage at the time. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Burma and India and were subjugated to expropriation of their business and home per the draconian Group Areas Act of South Africa, and were relocated to the first prototype tenements constructed by the Apartheid government at the time, where Naseem was subsequently born.
His family reunited in Durban, South Africa during the early 1990s, before he completed his private schooling in Cape Town.
Notable Relations[edit]
He is the sibling of South African socialite and TV personality Farrah Mia. He is the grandson of the late Garda Richard Fallon, one of the first casualties of the troubles in Ireland during the 1970s[6] and is the son the late Dr Nasser Ameermia (1956 - 2017), who was hailed as a pioneer in the local medical services industry in Cape Town, South Africa[7]. His father was a co-founder of one of the largest pathology practices on the continent, Drs Dietrich, Voigt, Mia & Partners (Pathcare). Naseem is also the nephew and mentee of the former South African Human Rights Commissioner, Advocate Shafie Ameermia, a prominent South African lawyer who is highly lauded in his pursuit of equal access to justice and human rights[8] and a supporter of the destitute in South Africa who were subjected to unfair lending practices by South Africa's banking institutions[9].
Personal life[edit]
Naseem shies away from sharing much of his personal life in the public space and does not venture onto social media. He is married to attorney Fatima Kader whom he met in 1999.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Naseem Ameer-Mia". Legal Practice Council. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ↑ "Naseem's Two Oceans Half Marathon 2016". GivenGain. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ↑ "UCT Law Review" (PDF). UCT Law Review. September 2010.
- ↑ alison.eyre@hsf.com (2021-03-03). "Naseem Ameer-Mia". Herbert Smith Freehills | Global law firm. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ↑ "Without Prejudice". Without Prejudice. 12, No 2.
- ↑ "Garda round up cancelled" (PDF). This Week Magazine.
- ↑ "Pioneer in Cape Town's pathology service sector dies". Medical Brief. 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ↑ Does South Africa have a healthy human rights culture?, retrieved 2021-06-24
- ↑ "High Court rules that the common law principle of set-off is not applicable to debts arising from credit agreements regulated by the NCA". De Rebus. 2019-08-31. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
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