Simbarashe Tavuyanago

Simbarashe Tavuyanago is an assistant professor in the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw. He serves as the South African expert in a comparative research project “Competition Law Through Constitutional Lenses: Integrating Socio-Economic and Environmental Values in a Time of Just Transition.” His research focuses on non-competition considerations in merger regulation and national security exceptions in competition and investment law. He received his LLD from University of the Western Cape, and an LLM in Mercantile Law from the University of Pretoria.

South Africa Shows How the EU Merger Guidelines Can Account for Non-Economic Factors

The draft EU Merger Guidelines open merger analysis to non-economic considerations, including choice, supply chain resilience, and sustainability. However, they do not yet explain how these considerations will be paired with a traditional consumer welfare analysis of price and quantity. Maciej Bernatt and Simbarashe Tavuyanago look to South Africa to devise a “vulnerable consumer test” that can help bridge these economic and non-economic goals.

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