Legal updates and opinions

by Nokwanda Zondi, Candidate Attorney, under supervision of Rudolph Raath, Director The Competition Commission's 2022 'Guidelines on Collaboration Between Competitors on Localisation Initiatives' and avoiding cartel [...]

Public interest considerations There is little debate around public interest considerations carrying the same weight as competition issues in South African merger investigations - a position [...]

There has been a recent shift in emphasis by the Competition Commission of South Africa (the Commission) from simply protecting competition and market conditions to actively [...]

Digital markets are the fastest growing segment of the economy according to the Competition Commission ("Commission"), who has today released its provisional summary report in the [...]

by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Data Privacy and Cybercrime Practice and member of the Competition Law Practice and Nyiko Mathebula, Associate The Competition Commission [...]

Competition Commission and Information Regulator sign an MoU by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Data Privacy and Cybercrime Practice and member of the Competition Law [...]

Competition law and consent agreements by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Data Privacy and Cybercrime Practice and member of the Competition Law Practice; and Dale [...]

Merger approval The Competition Act 89 of 1998 ("Competition Act") and Commission Rules[1] contain review provisions that establish a mandatory filing regime for transactions that meet [...]

The COMESA Competition Commission 1.  The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) covers 21 countries namely Burundi, the Comoros, the Democratic Republic of Congo, [...]

Burger King merger 1. The Competition Commission's prohibition in June 2020 of the sale of Burger King (South Africa) (RF) (Pty) Ltd ("BKSA") to private equity [...]

Proceedings before the Competition Commission Litigation is, by its very nature, adversarial and in consequence, litigants are sometimes prone to making rash and unfounded assertions and [...]

The prohibition of the Burger King merger 1.  The recent decision by the Competition Commission to prohibit the sale by Grand Parade Investments ("GPI") of Burger [...]

by Dominique Arteiro, Director  Background: Online Platforms Today, 19 May 2021 the Competition Commission of South Africa ("Commission") officially commenced its market inquiry into online intermediation [...]

Merger conditions There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has had, and is continuing to have, a severe impact on all aspects of our lives. [...]

by Dominique Arteiro, Director Background On 23 April 2021, the Competition Commission ("Commission") published a notice in the Government Gazette in which it, inter alia, indicated that [...]

by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Data Privacy Practice and member of Competition Law Practice; and Dale Adams, Associate   On 25 March 2021, the Competition [...]

by Dominique Arteiro, Director and Taryn Potter, Director Entrepreneurs and small and medium businesses (SME) have been heralded by many commentators as the panacea for job [...]

by Dominique Arteiro, Director: Competition Practice "These Guidelines are aimed at removing restrictions imposed by OEMs on car owners on the service providers for service and [...]

by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Data Privacy Practice and member of the Competition Law Practice Introduction 1. Digitalization enables companies to systematically collect, analyse [...]

by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Data Privacy Practice and member of the Competition Law Practice; and Tayli Hanan, Candidate Attorney The United Nations Conference [...]

by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Data Privacy Practice and Member of the Competition Practice; and Dale Adams, Candidate Legal Practitioner and Associate Introduction 1. [...]

by Dominique Arteiro, Director During the second week of September 2020, the Competition Commission of South Africa ("Commission") published its strategy document entitled "Competition in the [...]

by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of Data Protection and Privacy Practice; and Dale Adams, Candidate Attorney "…it's not always turnover that makes a company an [...]

by Petra Krusche, Director and Rethabile Sebotsa, Candidate Attorney The COVID-19 national state of disaster declared in terms of the Disaster Management Act No. 57 of 2002 [...]

by Pieter Steyn, Director The recent decision by the Constitutional Court in the case involving the Competition Commission and Pickfords Removals has significant implications for respondents [...]