Webber Wentzel
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Meluleki Nzimande
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Position
Partner
Career
Meluleki specialises in all aspects of international trade and investment law across a range of sectors that include steel, poultry, chemicals, paper, electronics and cement. His work has involved various investigations into customs duty amendments, including anti-dumping, safeguard and other trade remedy investigations conducted in terms of South African law, World Trade Organisation (WTO) law and international agreements such as the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, and the Southern African Customs Union Member States and Mozambique. He also has expertise in matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, anti-corruption law and general commercial law. Meluleki is the former Chief Commissioner of the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC). As Chief Commissioner, he was involved in the negotiation of various sector masterplans, including the Sugar masterplan, the Retail, Clothing, Textile, Footwear and Leather masterplan. He was part of the team which spearheaded the introduction of export taxes on scrap metal.
Meluleki has advised on various aspects of different international trade agreements, including preferences and rules of origin under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement and Economic Partnership Agreements which the European Union has concluded with various African countries. Meluleki has addressed various workshops and seminars in Southern, East and West Africa on the AfCFTA Agreements.
Meluleki is a Fellow of the Cyrus Vance Institute for International Justice Initiatives (Vance Institute), having spent a year working in the corporate department of Skadden Arps, one of the New York magic circle law firms, as part of an exchange programme organised by the Vance Institute.
Meluleki is a former assistant editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights. He acted as external examiner to the University of the Witwatersrand’s Law School. He is a former chairperson of the National Democratic Lawyers Association, Johannesburg Branch and a former member of the British Institute of International Comparative Law. He is a former member of the African Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar.