Meet the Team

During 2009, he was  elected to serve as a non-executive director of a national insurance company for 3 consecutive terms from 2009 to 2018 and also served as a member of its pension fund committee for 6 years.

In October 2010, he was elected as a councillor of the KWAZULU NATAL LAW SOCIETY and he was subsequently elected vice president and president of the society during 2017. In total, he was a councillor for a period of 8 years.

In September 2012, he was nominated by the Minister of Finance to serve as a member of the FINANCIAL SECTOR CONTROL AUTHORITY: DIRECTORATE MARKET ABUSE and he held this office until 2018.

He was also nominated by Minister of Finance to serve as the CHAIRPERSON OF THE TAX APPEAL BOARD from August 2013 to August 2018.

He is currently the CHAIRMAN OF THE HIGH COURT COMMITTEE of the LAW SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA since 2017.

He is  currently a council member of the KZN MUSEUM in Pietermaritzburg and the CHAIRMAN of the INSTITUTE ADVANCEMENT AND ETHICS COMMITTEE.

Amongst his HONOURS, Umesh Jivan  has been the guest speaker at 2 international conferences of the PAN AFRICAN LAWYERS CONFERENCE and his topics were COMPLEX LITIGATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA and  PRACTICE MANAGEMENT.

He  currently serves as trustee and chairman of several property holding trusts.