Introduction
Michelle le Roux SC commenced practice in New York, USA in 1999 and in Johannesburg, RSA in 2007. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in July 2026 and joined Monckton Chambers as a tenant in November 2026. She has vast experience and expertise in all areas of competition law, complex, class and collective damages litigation, economic regulation and public and administrative law.
Michelle is a member of the New York Bar, where she litigated in commercial, regulatory and private law jury trials, bench trials, class actions, mediations, arbitrations and appeals in state and federal courts for 8 years, before returning to South Africa to complete pupillage in 2007 at the Johannesburg Bar. She appeared in US Federal and New York State courts, as well as at all levels of appellate jurisdiction, including the US Supreme Court, Second and Third Circuits and New York Court of Appeal. She appears regularly in matters before the Competition Tribunal, Competition Appeal Court and High Court of South Africa, as well as in appeals to the Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court.
She was elevated to Senior Counsel in 2020 as a competition law specialist in South Africa. Michelle has been annually recognised as a leading subject matter specialist in competition law, and as a leading Senior Counsel and Thought Leader: Competition in legal sector awards in competition law in South Africa (Who’s Who Legal, Lexology, Global Competition Review etc).
Michelle’s economic regulatory and public/administrative law practice covers the sectors of digital platforms, energy, telecommunications, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, banking, financial services, gambling and consumer protection. She was involved in the cases that established damages liability for anti-competitive conduct and the regime for class actions.
Michelle is an Adjunct Professor at the Law School of the University of Cape Town and a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Law School at the University of the Witwatersrand where she lectures in competition law.
Michelle has acted a Judge of the High Court of South Africa, as an arbitrator and is a member of the Financial Services Tribunal and Financial Intelligence Centre’s Appeal Board in South Africa.
She is the co-author of two books and numerous articles, including most recently “Towards a more effective efficiency?” (Forthcoming chapter in Research Handbook on Competition Law and Development Elgar, 2026).
