Leading African antitrust, trade law and regulatory expert, focused on providing practical and effective advice on competition law complaints, complex mergers, pricing regulation and trade remedies. Falcon & Hume is a boutique corporate law practice based in Johannesburg, South Africa.Heather is a competition and price regulation expert and regularly deals with South African regulators like the Competition Commission, ICASA, ITAC and NERSA. She regularly acts for mobile operator Cell C including in relation to mobile wholesale interconnection rate regulation, Universal Service Obligations, porting, mobile roaming, facilities leasing and spectrum allocation. She has acted in some of the most complex and challenging competition law complaints in Africa to date, including two applications by the Competition Commission in cartel cases to the South African Constitutional Court. She is currently defending a respondent in the SA Commission's forex price-fixing referral and is acting for clients in complaints in the autoparts, media, chemicals, telecommunications, fertilizer and construction industries. She has advised on many high profile and complex mergers, including several seminal cases involving 'public interest' issues such as the Wal-mart/Massmart, Kansai, AFGRI, Nashua Mobile, Edcon and Netcare/Clicks mergers. Heather is an Officer of the International Bar Association's Antitrust Committee. She was featured in 2019 in the 40 in their 40s Notable Woman in Competition Law, was listed by Global Competition Review (GCR) in its 100 Women in Antitrust survey in 2016 and was named Best Lawyers' South African Antitrust Lawyer of the year (2013). She was also named by GCR in 2012 as the only African lawyer in its 'Top 40 under 40' competition lawyers survey. She has extensive experience with both complex antitrust litigation and mergers in South Africa and other African jurisdictions, including COMESA, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Zambia and Kenya.