Rudolph Labuschagne > Bowmans > Cape Town, South Africa > Lawyer Profile

Bowmans
22 BREE STREET
CAPE TOWN
South Africa

Position

Partner

Career

Rudolph Labuschagne is a partner in Bowmans’ Cape Town office Competition Practice.

He specialises in competition law and regulation, with a particular focus on competition litigation.

He has advised and represented clients in a range of industries on South African and Pan-African merger regulation, prohibited practices, cartel investigations, corporate leniency applications, and competition compliance and training programmes.

He has been involved in a number of precedent setting matters before the South African competition authorities.

He has BCom and LLB degrees from the University of Pretoria. He is a member of the Cape Law Society’s Special Committee on Competition Law.

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.