Lara Granville

Director

Lara Granville is a Director in our Competition Law practice.  She has extensive experience in both the transactional and litigious aspects of competition law. Lara has advised on all aspects of competition law, including complex merger notifications; market investigations; compliance training; negotiating consent orders; defending clients against prohibited practice allegations, and merger notifications to, and engagement with, various African competition law authorities.  She also conducts competition law compliance audits, provides client training and assists clients in dawn raid procedures.

Lara has also advised clients in relation to other economic regulatory processes before the South African telecommunications and energy regulators. She also has also acted for clients in relation to various competition law matters in other African jurisdictions, including Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe, and with African regional authorities such as COMESA.

Lara Granville

About Lara

About Lara

Lara started her career as a clerk to Judge Yvonne Mokgoro at the Constitutional Court of South Africa before completing her articles at Deneys Reitz Attorneys in 2009. During this period, she also lectured Constitutional Law at the University of the Witwatersrand.  In 2009 she was appointed as an Associate at Norton Rose South Africa and promoted to Director in 2014. She joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in 2016.

Credentials

Credentials

Education

  • BA, University of Witwatersrand
  • LLB, University of Witwatersrand
  • LLM, New York University
  • Certificate in Telecommunications Law, University of Witwatersrand
  • Certificate in Advanced Administrative Law (with distinction), University of Witwatersrand
  • Registered with the Legal Practice Council

Languages

Languages

  • English

About Lara

Lara started her career as a clerk to Judge Yvonne Mokgoro at the Constitutional Court of South Africa before completing her articles at Deneys Reitz Attorneys in 2009. During this period, she also lectured Constitutional Law at the University of the Witwatersrand.  In 2009 she was appointed as an Associate at Norton Rose South Africa and promoted to Director in 2014. She joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in 2016.

Credentials

Education

  • BA, University of Witwatersrand
  • LLB, University of Witwatersrand
  • LLM, New York University
  • Certificate in Telecommunications Law, University of Witwatersrand
  • Certificate in Advanced Administrative Law (with distinction), University of Witwatersrand
  • Registered with the Legal Practice Council

Languages

  • English

News

Market recognition

  • Chambers Global 2022–2024 ranked Lara Granville in Band 5 for competition/antitrust.
  • Chambers Global 2019–2021 ranked her as an “Up & Coming” competition/antitrust lawyer.  She has been mentioned in Chambers as "excellent" and "very hard-working and dedicated to clients' needs."
  • The Legal 500 EMEA 2018–2024 recommended Lara for competition. 

Market recognition

  • Chambers Global 2022–2024 ranked Lara Granville in Band 5 for competition/antitrust.
  • Chambers Global 2019–2021 ranked her as an “Up & Coming” competition/antitrust lawyer.  She has been mentioned in Chambers as "excellent" and "very hard-working and dedicated to clients' needs."
  • The Legal 500 EMEA 2018–2024 recommended Lara for competition.