Competition & Anti-Trust

Competition law and anti-trust law can be extremely complex and often challenging. At Fluxmans, we provide integrated commercial solutions to assist with their ever-evolving changes. Our clients benefit from our expert knowledge and experience in local, regional, and multi-jurisdictional matters.

We provide a coordinated approach and offer a seamless service by having access to expert competition and anti-trust lawyers to successfully manage the complexities of cross-border transactions, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and others.

Our track record sets us apart from our competitors. Understanding the Competition Act and ensuring that clients have the correct information means our clients are always protected and have recourse against competitors who do not adhere.

Our Services

We provide extensive competition/anti-trust services, including:

Assisting with all aspects of complex local, regional and global merger investigations, including hostile and friendly merger notifications and merger-structuring advice (taking the lead on complex, multi-jurisdictional mergers and also, if required, fulfilling a supporting role in multi-jurisdictional filings)
Cartel investigations:
- from the defence side: from dawn raid or other commencement of an investigation, advising on possible leniency applications, defence of the investigation, appeals, reviews and follow-on civil litigation
- from the complainant’s side: providing advice, preparing complaints and privately prosecuting complaints
Behavioural matters, including horizontal and vertical practices and abuses of dominance, as well as defending and prosecuting behavioural matters
Market inquiries
Exemptions
Due diligence and compliance audits
E-learning and face-to-face compliance training programmes
Competition compliance advice (including in relation to transactions and behavioural issues)
Dealing with industry regulators, especially in respect of the interface between competition law and economics
Document creation and management techniques
Interim relief
Follow-on civil litigation
Advocacy
Appeals and reviews
Mergers including preparing and lodging merger approval applications in respect of intermediate and large mergers and advising on whether the transactions must be reported to the Competition authorities
Prohibited practices
Competition compliance training
Corporate leniency applications
Competition Commission requests for information and investigations
Competition Tribunal hearings
Preparing competition compliance policies
Submissions to economic regulators (including Nersa and ICASA and ITAC) on pricing, licensing, and other issues