Xolani Nyali > Bowmans > Cape Town, South Africa > Lawyer Profile

Bowmans
22 BREE STREET
CAPE TOWN
South Africa

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Partner

Career

Xolani Nyali in a partner in Bowmans’ Cape Town office Competition Practice.

He has considerable experience in domestic and cross-border competition law, covering mergers, behavioural practices, training, and compliance.

Xolani has led a number of significant merger transactions and behavioural matters in various African jurisdictions.

Xolani is a member of the Association of Competition Law Practitioners.

During his career Xolani has been seconded to Bowmans’ Nairobi office twice and therefore has considerable competition law experience in Kenya and COMESA. Xolani has also been seconded to the Brussels office of an international law firm.

He has B.Com and LLB degrees from Rhodes University and an LLM from the University of the Western Cape.

Lawyer Rankings

South Africa > Competition

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.