Bio

Amanda Mfuphi is an experienced competition lawyer who has been focused on competition law since 2014 when he took up employment with the South African Competition Commission. During his time at the Competition Commission, Amanda worked on some of the most high-profile and complex transactions, including precedent-setting matters contested before the Competition Tribunal. Amanda is strong in providing regulatory advice on mergers and clients have benefited from his wealth of knowledge of the South African merger regulatory environment and inner workings of the South African competition authorities. Amanda provides advice on the competition law implications of activities including merger notifications and negotiation conditions with the competition authorities, behavioural matters, competition compliance audits, competition due diligence and competition training. Amanda is a specialist in South African competition law, and has also advised in respect of merger notifications in Botswana and COMESA. Amanda is able to express and explain often complex concepts clearly and in a manner that is easy to understand for clients. He has also shown the ability to assist the competition authorities in understanding and evaluating often relatively sophisticated and complex products and services offered by clients in order to assess the competitive effects of the transaction as efficiently as possible. Amanda has the ability to keep the focus on client’s commercial imperatives when negotiating conditions with the Commission in complex transactions for purposes of getting merger clearance. Amanda is not just a lawyer’s lawyer, he has good stakeholder management skills and clients and competition authorities find him cordial and pleasant to work with. In recognition of Amanda’s experience in competition law and stakeholder management capabilities, he was nominated as a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) representative for the 2023/25 financial year by the South African Competition Commission to contribute alongside the Commission on working group’s work products of leading competition international bodies such as the International Competition Network, OECD Competition Working Parties Meetings and BRICS Annual Competition Conference.