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

Bowmans
11 ALICE LANE
SANDTON
JOHANNESBURG 2146
South Africa

Work Department

Corporate

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 partners)

Heather Irvine – Bowmans

Bowmans stands out for its strong offering across the full range of competition law matters. The group regularly acts as counsel to a solid client base of blue-chip companies on a wide range of complex competition issues, and continues to advise on multi-jurisdictional merger matters, high-profile market inquiries, and abuse of dominance claims. Practice co-head Derek Lötter is ‘very commercial and very experienced‘, and practice co-head Tamara Dini fields expertise in cross-border transactions and merger control issues. Heather Irvine has solid expertise in acting for clients in the financial services and manufacturing sectors. Xolani Nyali is well versed in handling pan-African merger transactions.