Ryan Goodman

Ryan Goodman is an Executive in the firm's Competition Law practice at ENS, based in South Africa. He has significant experience in all aspects of competition law in South Africa, including statutory merger notifications, complaint proceedings, cartel conduct, abuse of dominance, exemption applications, and the corporate leniency regime. He is also closely involved with competition-related litigation.

Mr. Goodman has developed expertise in competition law across various African jurisdictions, including COMESA, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. He has been involved in seminal competition law cases in South Africa, including acting for an FMCG company in the bread cartel and the Retail Market Inquiry, for a bank in the Banking Inquiry, for an insurance group in the Health Market Inquiry, and for a glass group in a dawn raid and subsequent investigation. He is also advising on the first gun jumping, abuse of dominance, and collusion cases in Namibia.

Ryan holds a BCom (Law) from the University of Johannesburg and an LLB (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He is the author of competition law articles for Business Law and Tax Review and a contributing editor of Butterworth's Competition Law Reports.