Aidan Scallan is an Executive at ENS in the Competition / Anti-Trust practice. He works on competition law matters relating to South Africa as well as a number of other African jurisdictions, including COMESA. He advises on all aspects of competition law, including merger control, prohibited practices, cartel conduct, dawn raids, abuses of dominance and corporate leniency policies. Aidan has also practiced in the United Kingdom where he gained particular insight into the operation of complex cross-border M&A transactions.

As a result of his international experience, Aidan is well placed to advise clients on the soon to be introduced foreign investment protection laws.

Aidan has significant expertise working closely with clients across a broad range of industries, including financial services (banking, asset management, insurance, payments and credit card issuing), energy, agriculture, gaming and betting, shipping and logistics, telecommunications, mining, FMCG and healthcare, engineering services and chemicals

Aidan contributes frequently to local and international publications and has presented at a number of conferences on competition law.

He is a member of the Law Society of the Northern Province

Education

• BCom (Rhodes University)
• LLB (cum laude) (University of the Witwatersrand)
• Admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa

Aidan is recognised as a leading/recommended lawyer by:

• The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 – Competition (South Africa)

• More Protection for Small Businesses and HDPs

  By Aidan Scallan |March 2020

• More Protection for Small Businesses and HDPs

  By Aidan Scallan |March 2020