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While South Africa has adopted a package of antitrust measures to either tackle exploitative conduct or facilitate a coordinated response
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On 23 March 2020, Minister Patel, the South African Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, adopted a block exemption permitting banks to develop industry positions on a range of issues
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On 19 March 2020, Minister Patel, the South African Minister of Trade and Industry, adopted two antitrust measures as part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
On 17 January 2020, the Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT), the Moroccan telecoms regulator, imposed a fine of MAD 3.3bn (approx. USD340m) on Maroc Telecom
The Mining, Agriculture and Construction (MAC) Protocol (the so-called Pretoria Protocol) developed by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) is an international treaty
LIBOR (the London interbank offered rate) is a benchmark interest rate which is supposed to represent the rate at which banks lend to one another in the international interbank market for short-term loans.
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The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (the Commission), the Nigerian competition authority, has taken a number of measures to implement the Nigerian merger control regime.
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As part of a package of reforms, the supremacy of the COMESA merger control regime has finally been recognised in Kenya.
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The engineering and construction contracts published by FIDIC, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, continue to serve as the pre-eminent standard form agreements used on international projects.
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A fortnight ago, the English Commercial Court handed down judgment in TAQA Bratani Ltd v RockRose UKCS8 LLC [2020] EWHC 58.
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