
John Oxenham
John practices broadly in the regulatory field and principally in competition law and white collar crime, including industry restructuring initiatives, joint ventures, cartel investigations, leniency applications, merger control, merger intervention, general competition litigation and commercial litigation, before the local South African and regional competition authorities and South African Courts. John has advised clients on a range of regulatory compliance initiatives including competition law, corruption, white collar crime and consumer protection law programmes. John continues to advise clients in relation to antitrust matters throughout sub-Saharan Africa and advised, in conjunction with Geroudis, the Mauritian Competition Commission on the implementation of its merger guidelines and procedural rules. Together with Anthony Norton, John is a integral member of the Nortons Inc. white collar crime and fraud practice and has represented various clients in relation to corruption and fraud matters. John regularly advises clients on local and foreign anti-corruption legilsaltion including compliance with the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act of South Africa ("PCCAA"); the Bribery Act of the United Kingdom ("UK Bribery Act"); and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") of the United States of America. Recently he attended the 2012 Dublin ICC Fraudnet Conference on Fraud and Asset Recovery on behalf of Nortons Inc.
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South Africa’s Second Price Gouging Case: Dis-Chem Penalised For Excessive Pricing re Face Masks* On 14 July 2020, the South African Competition Tribunal published its written reasons in relation to its decision to penalize Dis-Chem (a large pharmaceutical chain in South Africa) for (...)
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Auto-Body Repair Centres raided by SACC* Earlier on 4 July 2014, the South African Competition Commission (“Commission”) has conducted dawn raids at the offices of Precision and Sons (“Precision”), Eldan Auto Body (“Eldan”) in Pretoria West, as well as the Vehicle Accident Assessment Centre (“VAAC”) (...)
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Costly COMESA Courthouse, za investigates visa provider & holds ground on Sasol fine LOTS AAT news this Monday, from Sudan/COMESA to South Africa. Visa facilitator backed by one branch of government & investigated by another In substantive antitrust news, the South African Competition (...)
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Second market inquiry focuses on energy sector (LPG)* “Highly regulated” liquefied petroleum gas at center of second sectoral Commission inquiry According to the South African Competition Commission, the agency has issued “Terms of Reference for the market inquiry into the Liquefied Petroleum (...)
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Appellate competition body questions authority’s lenient fine* Tribunal expresses doubts as to lenient fining level of Premier Fishing The chairman of the South African Competition Tribunal, Takalani Madima, has asked the South African Competition Commission and Premier Fishing for ‘detailed (...)
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Costly COMESA Courthouse, za investigates visa provider & holds ground on Sasol fine LOTS AAT news this Monday, from Sudan/COMESA to South Africa. Visa facilitator backed by one branch of government & investigated by another In substantive antitrust news, the South African Competition (...)
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Commission details plans for private healthcare sector inquiry* Further details revealed by Inquiry Panel On Friday, 30 May 2014, subsequent to outlining the time table of the project, the South African Competition Commission released important frameworks for its sectoral inquiry into the (...)
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Surprise search and seizure visit at Unilever and Sime Darby in South Africa* The South African Competition Commission (“Commission”) has confirmed that it has conducted such a dawn raid operation at Unilever South Africa (Pty Ltd) (“Unilever”) and Sime Darby’s respective South African offices (...)
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SA competition enforcer’s distribution monopoly case dismissed by Tribunal* South African Breweries distribution case dismissed The Competition Tribunal of South Africa has dismissed a monopolization case brought by the Competition Commission against South African Breweries (“SAB”). The (...)
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Cable Cartel may lead to battle of the titans* The South African Competition Commission (the Commission) has recently referred its findings of cartel conduct against Alvern Cables, South Ocean Electric Wire Company (SOEW), Tulisa Cables, and Aberdare Cables who are all suppliers of power (...)
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Commission’s fisheries merger conditions upheld on review by Tribunal* Competition Tribunal confirms Commission’s ruling on Oceana and Foodcorp merger Johannesburg-listed Ocean Group Limited is the largest fishing company in South Africa, whose fishing activities include inter alia the (...)
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Kenya: Lafarge faces possible price-fixing penalties due to cross shareholding* East Africa back on antitrust enforcer’s mat in hybrid unilateral / collusion case The Kenyan Competition Authority has alleged that Lafarge has engaged in price-fixing due to the company’s cross-shareholding in (...)
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Competition Commission concludes exclusive-lease investigation without taking action* The South African Competition Commission (“Commission”) has recently announced that it has concluded its investigation into the major retail grocery stores, namely Shoprite Holdings Ltd, Woolworths Holdings (...)
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Quo vadis? Political interventionism in South African competition law* There has been a somewhat startling demonstration of diverging views regarding interventionism in competition matters between emerging and established jurisdictions. During the recent BRICS international competition (...)
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South Africa- Supreme Court of Appeal upholds Competition Commission appeal relating to investigatory powers* The Supreme Court of Appeal (the “SCA”) upheld an appeal against a judgment of the Competition Appeal Court invalidating a complaint referred to the Competition Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) (...)
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South African Competition Tribunal approves merger in record time of 4 hours* The South African Competition Tribunal received notice of, heard and approved the acquisition by construction firm, Stefanutti Stocks (Pty) Ltd, of Energotec, which is a division of First Strut (Pty) Ltd, and (...)
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South Africa: Telkom fined again…* South Africa’s Competition Tribunal had a busy week last week tasked with considering the proposed penalties for the various construction companies and also confirming the second significant administrative penalty on South Africa’s incumbent provider of fixed (...)
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South African Constitutional Court rules on appropriate test for class action relief for damages* ZA Constitutional Court broadens ambit of class-action relief As previously reported, the Supreme Court of Appeal (the “SCA”) handed down two judgments, in November 2012, in respect of the (...)
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Tsogo Merger Unconditionally Approved* Unconditional approval of SA hotel deal The Competition Tribunal of South Africa (“Tribunal”) has unconditionally approved the merger of Southern Sun Hotel Interests (Pty) Ltd (“Southern Sun Hotel Interests”), which is a subsidiary of Tsogo Sun Holdings (...)
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Antitrust publications were abuzz with "COMESA" in recent months. Yet, neither the decades-old pan-African organisation nor its Competition Regulations are novel. What’s new is that COMESA’s Competition Commission has finally — and suddenly — opened its doors and begun operations, already having (...)