Biography: Competition

Lee Mendelsohn is a director at ENS (Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs) and heads up the firm's antitrust/competition department. She has 17 years experience and specialises in merger control, enforcement and exemptions, compliance, and compliance training.

She has acted for the Competition Commission, as well as various major local and international companies across numerous and varied industries.

Lee's enforcement practice experience includes cartel and other horizontal practice investigations and prosecutions as well as vertical practice investigations. She also has experience dealing with all manner of investigations, prosecutions, price discrimination matters and abuse of dominance matters. She has taken responsibility for matters under investigation by the Competition Commission, being prosecuted before the Competition Tribunal, and on appeal or review to the Competition Appeal Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal.

In the mergers sphere, she has been involved in complex horizontal and vertical mergers, unsolicited bids, conditions compliance, appeals and reviews before the Commission, Tribunal, Appeal Court and Supreme Court of Appeal.

Lee has been the lead professional in extensive compliance audits, compliance training programmes, employee amnesty initiatives, dawn raid training, document creation and management techniques and other company policy compliance programmes.

Lee is the author of numerous articles and has presented at various domestic and international conferences. She is the managing editor of Butterworth's Competition Law Reports, a regular contributor to the Business Law and Tax Review, and co-authored the South African country chapter in the Private Competition Enforcement Review 2010. She is a member of the Law Society of the Northern Province's sub-committee for competition law.

Lee is recognised as a leading lawyer by the following reputable rating agencies and their publications: Global Competition Review 2010 - competition; The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists 2010; The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2010; Guide to the World's Leading Competition/Antitrust Lawyers and Economists 2010 - competition (South Africa); Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business Law 2010; PLC Which Lawyer? 2011 - competition (South Africa); The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers 2011 - competition (South Africa); Best Lawyers South Africa 2011 - antitrust; IFLR 1000 2012 - competition (South Africa); and Chambers and Partners Global Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers 2012 - competition (South Africa).

She has a BComm and an LLB (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa, and as a solicitor in England and Wales.