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John Oxenham
Director- John is Co-Editor of the first ever South African textbook on class action litigation, titled: Class Action Litigation in South Africa, Juta Publishers (2017)
John led the American Bar Associations Procedural Transparency Task Force Team for Africa (South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Egypt), 2017-2018 and is the regional contributor to the American Bar Association’s:
- Obtaining Discovery Abroad, 3d.
- Competition Law Outside the United States 3d.
- Antitrust Law Developments, for the previous 5 updates.
- Changing South Africa’s Competition Law Regime: A Populist Departure from International Best Practices
- Co-authored “Role of Economic Recovery in Stimulating Economic Recovery” presented by Business at OECD at the OECD Competition Week, December 2020.
- Co-authored “COVID-19 Price Gouging Cases in South Africa: Short-term Market Dynamics with Long-term Implications for Excessive Pricing Cases”, published in the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (COVID-19 Price Gouging Cases in South Africa: Short-term Market Dynamics with Long-term Implications for Excessive Pricing Cases | Journal of European Competition Law & Practice | Oxford Academic (oup.com))
- Participated on a panel discussion, Competition Law Developments Across Africa, hosted by Primerio, 2020
- Regional Contributor to the American Bar Associations What in the World Did I Miss?- Africa (2016-2020)
- Co-authored and presented, “Competition Law Provisions in Trade Agreements”, during the Business at OECD submissions at the OECD Competition Week, Paris, December 2019.
- Co-authored Business at OECD’s submissions to the June 2020 virtual hearings on the topic of “Line of Business Restrictions”
- Thompson Reuters: Financial Crimes in South Africa, 2019/2020
- Thompson Reuters: Business crime and investigations in South Africa, 2019/2020
- Thompson Reuters: Cartel leniency in South Africa: Overview 2019,
- Global Competition Review: The African and Middle Eastern Antitrust Review, 2016,
- Co-authored, “South African Competition Law -The role of non-competition factors in enforcing unilateral conduct: Forging ahead or falling behind?”, presented at the CRESSE 14th International Conference on Competition and Regulation, Greece, 2019
- Co-authored the paper and moderated the session titled “Collective Redress outside the United States for Losses Caused by Antitrust Infringements”, presented at the American Bar Association Spring Meeting, 2018.
- Dichotomy of Powers But Confluence In Policy Interplay Between Intellectual Property And Competition Law published by the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law, 2018
- Follow on Damages for Anti-competitive Conduct: A Need for Legislative Intervention? presented at the 11th Annual Competition Law, Economics and Policy Conference held in Johannesburg, 2017
- Developments in South African Merger Control – Ministerial Interventionism and the Impact on Timing & Certainty, 2016
- South Africa Excessive Pricing: An Evaluation of the Sasol Chemical Industries Case – A New Dawn or the Continuation of the Status Quo?, 2015
- Predatory Pricing and the South African Competition Act: A False Positive?, 2015
- John presented at the 30thICC Fraudnet Conference held in Beirut Lebanon on Asset Recovery, Confiscation and Anti-Fraud Measures in the Banking SystemJohn moderated and presented at the ICC Fraudnet Conference in Mumbai India in April 2018 on International Asset Recovery and State Capture Issues
- John hosted the ICC Fraudnet South Africa Conference on Fraud, Asset Recovery & Cross-Border Cooperation in Cape Town during March 2015 and moderated the panel on Regional Perspective on Africa: Tackling Fraud and Corruption
- John co-presented at the C5 Southern Africa- Corruption Summit in November 2014 on “A Comprehensive Guide to FCPA, UKBA and PACCA for the Non-Legal Workforce” and subsequently moderated the panel discussing “Interacting with Government-Owned Entities while Keeping the Company’s Anti-Corruption Government”; “Ensuring that Compliance with BBBEE Code Doesn’t Compromise Your Anti-Corruption Best Practices” and “How to Avoid Corruption Between Private Business Partners According to PCCAA and UKBA” during the Summit
- John presented at the Fraudnet Annual Meeting in Tortola, British Virgin Islands in April 2014 on “The Changing World of Fraud, experiences from South Africa and Africa”
- John presented at the Nortons Inc, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the French South Africa Chamber of Commerce and Industry seminar on Public Procurement and Tender Awards: Unlawful and Illegal Practices Associated with Tender Processes on the topic of “Running a fair and competitive tender process: practical steps for organs of state to ensure that the public procurement process is not only legally compliant, but also results in the acquisition of the best services at the best price” during May 2014
- John presented at the 2015 C5 Second Forum on Anti-Corruption, Southern Africa, on “Detecting Where Legitimate Competitive Advantage Becomes Corruption and Bribery and How to Avoid Common Pitfalls to Ensure there are Adequate Controls”
- John presented on White Collar Crime and Corruption at the SACCI/Nortons Inc. White Collar Crime and Corruption Seminar on 4 September 2012
- John has been the contributor for Africa section updates for the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Section of Antitrust Law Procedural Transparency Task Force (2016-2018) review of procedural fairness in antitrust matters worldwide
- John co-presented at the 11th Annual Competition Law, Economics and Policy Conference (2017) on a paper which he co-authored: “Follow On Damages for Anti-competitive Conduct: A Need for Legislative Intervention?”
- John presented on local competition law updates at the French South African Chamber of Commerce event in November 2016
- John presented at the American Bar Associations Spring Meeting 2016 on “From Algeria to Zimbabwe: Competition Law in South Africa” and submitted the following paper: “Developments in South African Merger Control- Ministerial Interventionism and the Impact on Timing and Certainty, 2016”
- John presented at USCIB (United States Council for International Business) Competition Committee Meeting 2016 on “State of Play in South Africa and the Region”
- John contributed to the Thompson Reuters: Cartel leniency in South Africa: Overview 2016
- John presented at the American Bar Associations Fall Meeting 2015 on “The Price is Right: Canada’s Price Transparency Act and Competition Laws Limiting Excessive Pricing.” on his paper titled: South Africa Excessive Pricing: An Evaluation of the Sasol Chemical Industries Case- A New Dawn or the Continuation of the Status Quo?, 2015
- John presented at the Global Competition Review’s seminar held in Cape Town in February 2015 on developments in relation to market inquiries utilised by the South African competition authorities
- John presented at the Eighth Annual Conference on Competition Law, Economics and Policy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in September 2014 on the paper he co-authored with Patrick Smith titled “What is competition good for- weighing the wider benefits of competition and the costs of pursuing non-competition objectives”
- John presented at the Global Competition Review’s inaugural seminar on developments in South African public and private antitrust enforcement during 2012/2013 focusing on follow on damages in the cartel arena and the impact on the leniency regime
- John co-authored the recently published article titled “Crossing the Competition Rubicon: Internationalising African antitrust through COMESA’ in Concurrences Issue No. 3 2013.
- John presented on antitrust advocacy and compliance during the Mauritian Competition Commission’s fourth annual convention in Port Louis in December 2013
- John presented at the Concurrence and Paul Hastings LLP’s “Inaugural Global Merger Control Conference: Navigating Uncharted Waters of Global Merger Regimes” in November 2013 in Paris on developments in regional merger control
- John authored the recently published article (in the US-China Law Review Volume 9, Number 3, June 2012) “Can one Balance the Increasing Importance of Public Interest Considerations in South Africa (and Sub-Saharan Jurisdictions) with the quest for merger control certainty”
- John presented at the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law 60th Spring Meeting (March 2012), in Washington DC on the topic “Fashioning Merger Remedies Among Established and New Agencies”
- John is co-author of “Cartels-The South African Cartel Handbook” and recently authored the chapter on South Africa in the Global Cartels Handbook: Leniency Policy and Procedures 2012 Oxford University Press
- John has presented at numerous regulatory law events including the following:
- “The Criminalisation of Competition law- experiences from abroad.” 1st and 2nd Competition Law Conference, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa (September 30 and November 15, 2008 respectively);
- “International Antitrust and Enforcement Exposure: implications for the boardroom” (07 November 2007) Johannesburg);
- Presented at the American Bar Association’s International Committee’s Annual Fall Meeting in Montreal, during October 2015, where he spoke on the panel “The Price is Right” regarding developments on abuse of dominance and
- John contributed to the Thompson Reuters: Financial Crimes in South Africa, 2017
- John contributed to the Thompson Reuters: Business crime and investigations in South Africa, 2017
- John presented at a seminar hosted with Genesis Analytics and SACCI on the implications of the Consumer Protection Act during June 2009
- John has presented to various local and international clients on all aspects of the Protection of Personal Information Act, No 4 of 2013 (POPI)