Legal updates and opinions

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 [...]

By Pieter Steyn, Director The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) covers 21 countries namely Burundi, the Comoros, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, [...]

By Paul Coetser, Director and Head of the Competition practice The Competition Commission is aggressively pursuing any company alleged to have engaged in price gouging during [...]

Competition Law during the pandemic We have previously reported on the various block exemptions issued by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition ("DTIC Minister") which [...]

by Paul Cleland, Director The Competition Commission has, by way of a settlement agreement, concluded its first investigation into excessive pricing related to the national disaster [...]

by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and Head of the Data Privacy practice and Graeme Wickins, Director As the global economy is gripped by the Covid-19 pandemic, world [...]

by Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director and head of the Data Privacy practice; Graeme Wickins, Director; and Dimakatso Khumalo, Candidate Attorney Introduction Undoubtedly economic uncertainty has been sparked [...]

by Paul Coetser, Director and head of Competition Practice, and Mishkah Abdool Sattar, Candidate Attorney Since the issue of our briefing note on 20 March 2020, [...]

By Pieter Steyn, Director In the last two months the Competition Commission has lost three cartel cases before the Competition Tribunal. On 4 December 2019, the Tribunal [...]

By Rudolph Raath, Director and Megan Livingstone COMPETITION COMMISSION V PICKFORDS REMOVAL (167/CAC/Jul18) How long does a firm remain at risk after having ceased contravening the [...]

By Ahmore Burger-Smidt, Director, Head of Data Privacy Practice, Werksmans Advisory Services The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States ("ECOWAS") officially launched its [...]

INTRODUCTION A recent decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal ("SCA") has given the Competition Commission (the "Commission") some latitude to initiate a complaint against a [...]