Gina Lodolo

Gina has assisted the Primerio team in various matters including rental disputes; obtaining leave to defend against summary judgment; drafting settlement agreements and assisting in merger filings in various African jurisdictions. In addition to her practice areas, Gina has been published in the Concurrences e-Competition Bulletin, featured in your weekly digest and Competition Policy International.

Professional association

Gina forms part of the Executive Committee for Women@CompetitionZA- a platform for woman professionals
Golden Key International Society – Top 15% of BA Law and LLB degree for three consecutive years.

Gina’s experience lies predominantly in all aspects of competition law/antitrust. Some of the recent matters which she has been involved include:

advising and preparing merger filings across African countries and regional organisations, particularly in South Africa, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and COMESA;
advising on merger notification in several jurisdictions across Africa;
advising two major players in the telecommunications industry during intervention in merger proceedings;
enforcing the Competition Act, Codes of Conduct and Guidelines;
preparing ‘playbooks’ to be utilized by a major FMCG company;
advising on all of the applicable legislation to do business in Zambia, Cameroon, Mozambique and Nigeria;
advising on interim relief for an abuse of dominance and the initiation of complaint proceedings with the Competition Commission in the telecommunications industry; and
drafting compliance manuals to ensure compliance with the Competition Act, Codes of Conduct and Guidelines (particularly in relation to information exchange, cross directorships, the grocery Retail Market Inquiry and Code of Conduct and promotions).

She has also had the benefit of being heavily involved in several cross border and general commercial litigation cases on behalf of the firm’s clients, including:

advising a consortium of banks in relation to the recovery of proceeds following the Steinhoff fraud – which is among the largest civil claims in South Africa’s history;
assisting a foreign company obtain an urgent interdict to ensure that funds are not paid out pending a declarator application;
assisting in obtaining an interdict against the suspension of a license granted by a government institution;
instituting proceedings for stolen funds emanating from fraudulent conduct in the Crypto industry;
advising an international company in obtaining four urgent interdicts in order to recover funds as a result of a fraudulent scheme and successfully subpoenaed information in order to locate the remainder of the funds and individuals involved in the scheme, to ultimately have the funds paid back to us;
obtaining a revocation order for an international clothing company in respect of a design erroneously registered with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission; and
Representing an FMCG company in an appeal against the appointment of assignees in terms of the Agricultural Products Standards Act.

The South African Society for Labour Law Prize for the best student in Labour Law 410
Awarded Academic Honorary Colours at the University of Pretoria

Papers and Publications

Contributor to the Concurrences e-Competition Bulletin. Recent contributions include:

South Africa: Exemptions to aid consumers during and after riots. Published July 2021 [Click here to access]
South Africa: Motor vehicle finance institutions referred to the Competition Tribunal for alleged collusion’ [Click here to access]

Featured in your Weekly digest | Issue 218 on 8 February 2021. [Click here to access]

Co-authored for Mondaq “Kenya: Dominance Comparative Guide”. Accessible here

Acknowledged for assisting in “Competition and Digital Markets: State of Play in South Africa”, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2022 Accessible here

Regular Contributor to the American Bar Association’s ‘What in the World Did I Miss? – Africa’

Co-authored “The risk of price regulation: A review of recent abuse of dominance cases in South Africa”, Competition Law Insight Accessible here

Featured in Competition Policy International:

CCC Draft Guidelines (No. 3/3): Penalties [Click here to access]
South African Competition Commission Prosecutes Facebook for Abuse of Dominance [Click here to access]
Nigerian competition authorities finally established [Click here to access]
South Africa: Exemptions to aid consumers during and after riots [Click here to access]
South Africa Competition Tribunal: Regulations Published to Expedite COVID-19 Excessive and Unfair Pricing Complaint Referrals [Click here to access]

Co-authored with John Oxenham “Antitrust and Big Tech: The South African Competition Commission Gears Up to Regulate the Digital Market” for the International Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 1, April 2022.

Blogs

Gina is a regular contributor to Africanantitrust a leading resource for competition law developments across Africa. Recent articles or contributions include:

Authored ‘Pursuing Produce: New SA Market Inquiry Starting in 1, 2, 3…’ published on 16 February 2023 [Click here to access]
Authored ‘Toyota’s distribution & pricing agreements under COMESA scrutiny’ published on 27 June 2022 [Click here to access]
Authored ‘African Antitrust authority edges closer to becoming price regulator’, published on 3 June 2022 [Click here to access]
South Africa: Motor vehicle finance institutions referred to the Competition Tribunal for alleged collusion’. Published 6 February 2022 [Click here to access]
South African Competition Commission prosecutes Facebook for abuse of dominance’. Published on 29 March 2022 [Click here to access]
South Africa: Motor vehicle finance institutions referred to the Competition Tribunal for alleged collusion’ [Click here to access]
Enforcement Alert: SACC ordered to remedy its complaint referral in 2nd CompuTicket abuse-of-dominance case Published April 2020 [Click here to access]
South Africa Competition Tribunal: Regulations published to expedite COVID-19 excessive and unfair pricing complaint referrals. Published April 2020 [Click here to access]
Online Intermediation Platforms Market Inquiry: Call for Comments. Published February 2021 [Click here to access]
Healthy foods & price-gouging during Pandemic? Published February 2021 [Click here to access]
Nigerian competition authorities finally established. Published March 2021 [Click here to access]
The price might be right, but simmer down: a “Yup” is still required from competition authorities in Mr. Price’s strategic Yuppiechef acquisition. Published April 2021 [Click here to access]
Interdict Granted in Favour of GovChat, Preventing Removal from the Whatsapp Platform. Published March 2021 [Click here to access]
Competition Commission releases impact report of the results from enforcement initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Published May 2021 [Click here to access]
South Africa: Exemptions to aid consumers during and after riots. Published July 2021 [Click here to access]
CCC draft Guidelines (no. 2/3): ‘Hearing Procedure’. Published October 2021 [Click here to access]
Concentration and Participation in the South African Economy: Levels and Trends – SACC Publishes Report. Published 10 December 2021. [Click here to access]

Gina is also a contributor to Africanantifraud. Recent contributions include:

‘South Africa: State Capture’ published 25 February 2022 [Click here to access]

BA Law (University of Pretoria) (2019), with majors in Criminology and Law.
LLB Cum Laude (University of Pretoria) (2020).

Primerio International 2021 – Present.
Nortons Incorporated 2021.

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