Heather Irvine > Bowmans > Johannesburg, South Africa > Lawyer Profile

Bowmans
11 ALICE LANE
SANDTON
JOHANNESBURG 2146
South Africa

Position

Partner

Career

Heather Irvine is a partner in Bowmans’ Johannesburg office Competition Practice.

She specialises in the competition law aspects of complex mergers as well as competition law complaints and proceedings, and pricing. She has particular experience in the broadcasting, financial services, manufacturing and mobile telecommunications sectors.

Heather has BA and Honours degrees (both awarded cum laude) and an LLB (awarded magna cum laude), from the University of Cape Town. She also has a Competition Law Certificate from the University of the Witwatersrand and has been an external examiner in undergraduate and master’s competition law courses at that university for a number of years.

Lawyer Rankings

South Africa > Competition

(Leading individuals)

Heather Irvine Bowmans

At Bowmans, the practice’s ‘ability to provide a one-stop-shop for all things competition-related in Africa is invaluable when it comes to navigating complex multi-jurisdictional matters‘. Derek Lötter is ‘extremely knowledgeable in competition law‘, and jointly heads the department with Tamara Dini, who possesses ‘a supreme grasp of the technical nature of competition law‘. The team is highly regarded for advising a client base of blue-chip companies on a broad spectrum of complex competition matters, with noted capabilities in handling abuse of dominance allegations, prohibited practices investigations, and merger control mandates. Heather Irvine regularly acts on cross-border mergers, and Rudolph Labuschagne has solid expertise in advising on competition litigation and cartel and abuse of dominance investigations. Other key practitioners include Xolani Nyali, Sivuyise Lutshiti, and Kayla Abrahams. Disebo Leokaoke joined the practice in late 2022.