Justin Balkin

Justin Balkin is an Executive at ENS in the Competition/Antitrust practice. His practice focuses on Competition Law, and he is involved in all aspects of competition law, including merger control and behavioural issues.

Justin advises in South Africa and in numerous other African jurisdictions with antitrust regimes, including COMESA, Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Swaziland.

His mergers experience includes advising on the competition law aspects of transaction structuring, merger approvals (with a focus on complex local and multi-jurisdictional transactions), private equity transactions and the antitrust components of hostile takeover bids. He is an expert in all competition law aspects of local and international private equity acquisitions and disposals.

From a behavioural perspective, Justin has been involved in various contested proceedings in relation to cartel conduct, prohibited practices and abuses of dominance. He has also advised clients on the Competition Commission's corporate leniency policy and has extensive experience in performing competition law compliance reviews and competition law training.

Justin has been actively involved in the Competition Law Sub-Committee of the Law Society. He is the author of several articles on competition law and is an editor of the Butterworth's Competition Law Report.

He holds a BCom and an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He is recognised by IFLR1000 as Highly Regarded for Competition, by Chambers Global Guide for Competition/Antitrust, by The Legal 500 EMEA as a Leading Partner for Competition, by Best Lawyers for Competition/Antitrust, and by Who's Who Legal as a Global Leader for Competition in South Africa.