Leana Engelbrecht is a director in the competition, regulation and trade team of Herbert Smith Freehills in Johannesburg. Her practice is focused on competition law, but she also has extensive experience in other regulatory fields, such as consumer protection, data protection, gaming and gambling, franchising, trade and administrative law. She is experienced in all aspects of competition law, including mergers, prohibited practices, leniency applications, and abuse of dominance. Leana has been involved in several high-profile competition matter including in the casino and gaming, fast moving consumer goods, airline, food services, construction and private healthcare industries.
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COMPETITION COMMISSION PUBLISHES FINAL TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR MEDIA AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS MARKET INQUIRY On 15 September 2023, the Competition Commission (Commission) published its final Terms of Reference (ToR) in the Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry (MDPMI), together with the (...)
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On 4 September 2023, the COMESA Competition Commission (the CCC) announced that it had partially prohibited the proposed acquisition by AkzoNobel N.V (AkzoNobel) of the decorative coatings business of Kansai Plascon East Africa Proprietary Limited and Kansai Plascon Africa Limited (...)
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On 31 August 2023, the Parliament of Uganda passed the Competition Act, 2023 (Competition Act) following its reconsideration. The Competition Bill, 2022 (Bill) was first introduced in December 2022 before being passed by Parliament in May 2023. However, when the Competition Act was thereafter (...)
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On 23 August 2023, the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) announced that, pursuant to an investigation, it had penalised the following nine steel manufacturers for engaging in price fixing through agreeing and collectively setting prices and price adjustment mechanisms in relation to steel (...)
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FINAL ONLINE INTERMEDIATION PLATFORMS MARKET INQUIRY REPORT PUBLISHED BY COMPETITION COMMISSION* Following the conclusion of its Online Intermediation Platforms Market Inquiry (OIPMI), the Competition Commission (Commission) published its final report (Report) which reflects its findings and (...)
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On 17 July 2023, the Competition Appeal Court (CAC) handed down its judgment in which it granted the relief sought by Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (Standard Bank), Mercantile Bank, a division of Capitec Bank (Mercantile Bank) and Access Bank Limited (Access Bank) (collectively, the (...)
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On 29 June 2023, the South African Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) handed down its decision in terms of which it dismissed the Competition Commission’s (Commission) complaint alleging that Totalgaz Southern Africa Proprietary Limited, Oryx Oil South Africa Proprietary Limited, KayaGas (...)
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The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition (MTIC) on Wednesday 24 May 2023 published the Energy Users Block Exemption and Energy Supplier Block Exemption. The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) is entitled to make regulations that are required to give effect to the (...)
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Following the declaration of a national state of disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act No. 57 of 2002 (as amended), the concerning escalation in the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in South Africa prompted the National Coronavirus Command Council to enforce a nationwide (...)
