Jocelyn Katz

Jocelyn Katz is an Executive at ENS and Head of the Competition / Anti-Trust practice. Her practice focuses on Competition Law, specialising in all aspects of competition law.

Jocelyn's experience includes mergers and the compilation of merger notifications, objections to mergers on behalf of interested parties, advising on transaction structures and complaint proceedings involving prohibited practices and abuses of dominance.

She is an expert in all competition law aspects of large, complex multijurisdictional mergers for large global multinationals, navigating complex deals and negotiating remedies across multiple African jurisdictions. She is also experienced in local and international private equity acquisitions and disposals.

Jocelyn's experience includes offering advice in terms of South Africa's Corporate Leniency Policy, as well as on the running of various competition law audits and compliance education programmes for clients. She has extensive experience in the complex competition law aspects of business rescue proceedings and has advised both acquirers and targets in the anti-trust elements of hostile takeover bids.

She has filed merger notifications in a range of jurisdictions on the African continent including South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia, Kenya, COMESA, CEMAC, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Nigeria and Swaziland, and has provided merger control advice in respect of Mozambique, Angola, Morocco and Egypt. She holds a BA, an LLB and a Certificate in Competition Law from the University of the Witwatersrand, and is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. She is recognised by Chambers Global Guide, The Legal 500 EMEA, Best Lawyers and Who's Who Legal for Competition/Anti-Trust in South Africa.