Position: Consultant
Telephone: + 264 (0) 64 40 5660
Email: alet.louw@englinglaw.com.na
Key Practice Areas
Commercial:
- Competition & antitrust
- Contract
- Corporate & commercial
- Environment
Advises on:
- Preparing and submitting merger approval applications to the Competition Commission
- Merger control compliance advice
- Abuse of dominance complaints
- Complaints relating to anti-competitive conduct
- General advice on compliance with local competition laws
- Drafting and settling of contracts
- Conducting legal due diligences
- Conducting legal research
- Regulatory advice
Career
- B Comm (North-West University)
- LLB (North-West University)
- LLM cum laude (North-West University)
- Admitted as Legal Practitioner in Namibia (2011)
- Member of the Law Society of Namibia
Professional involvement:
- Member of Standing Committee of Bursaries and Sponsorships of Law Society of Namibia (2016)
- Member of Standing Committee of Commercial Law Commission of Law Society of Namibia (2016)
Highlights:
- Attending to the sanctioning of the transfer of United Funeral Insurance’s long-term insurance business to Liberty Life Namibia as contemplated by section 36 of the Long-term Insurance Act
- Attending to various local merger notifications, in particular Wesbank Transport and FP du Toit Transport (acquisition of assets and properties in transport business); Fides Bank and Trustco (acquisition of shares in bank); Rosenthal, Safari Guns and Agra (acquisition of shares in arms and ammunition businesses); Sefalana Namibia and Metcash; and Sefalana Namibia and Megasave (acquisition of business of hybrid store group); Cadilu Fishing and Iberconsa Group (acquisition of shares in fishing company); LKI NamGem Holding, the Government of the Republic of Namibia and NamGem Manufacturing (acquisition of shares in diamond manufacturing company); PSG Konsult and Western Group (acquisition of shares in insurance business); Ritter’s and Frans Indongo Investment Trust (acquisition of shares in Toyota franchise dealership)
- Acting for a number of entities regarding restrictive business practice and/or abuse of dominance investigations undertaken by the Competition Commission
Publications:
- Chapter on Namibia in ‘Balancing of interests in environmental law in Namibia’ in The balancing of interests in environmental law in Africa (PULP Pretoria 2012)
- Academic article: ‘Does Namibia’s Constitution provide an enforceable and pursuable environmental right?’ Namibia Law Journal (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Windhoek 2010)