Lara Granville

Lara Granville is a Co-Founder and Director at MGI Competition Law. With almost 20 years’ experience working in competition law, she is recognized as a leading practitioner in South African and African competition law.

She has extensive experience in both the transactional and litigious aspects of competition law. She has advised on complex merger notifications; represented clients in market inquiries and exemption applications; defended firms against prohibited practice prosecutions; negotiated settlements with the Competition Commission; and engaged with various African competition authorities on mergers and investigations. She has also advised clients operating in various regulated sectors to address issues arising at the intersection of economic or financial regulation and the open market.

Lara is consistently recognised by premier global legal directories for her technical depth and client-centric approach.

Lara has 19 years of competition law experience, first at the Johannesburg and London offices of Norton Rose Fulbright, where she became a director in 2014, and then at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a director from 2014 until 2024.

Lara began her career as a clerk to Justice Yvone Mokgoro in the Constitutional Court of South Africa and as a lecturer of constitutional law at Wits University.

Representing F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG in excessive pricing litigation;

Representing Babcock in contested cartel litigation before the Competition Tribunal

Represented Tricon Energy Inc in securing merger approval for its acquisition of ENX subsidiary, West African International

Represented African Bank in securing a number of merger approvals, relating to both retail and business banking

Represented Telesure in the merger of its subsidiary 1Life and Clientele

Represented Willowton in the successful setting aside of a dawn raid

Represented Australia and New Zealand Bank in contested cartel litigation relating to forex trading

Represented Computershare in contested merger litigation

Represented Lesaka in its acquisition of Cash Connect

New York University

Masters

2007 - 2008

University of the Witwatersrand

PG Telecommunications Law

2009 - 2009

University of the Witwatersrand

PG Administrative Law

2013 - 2013

University of the Witwatersrand

BA, LLB

2000 - 2004

Hauser Global Scholarship

New York University

2008