John Oxenham is the founding partner at Primerio International, a Pan-African law firm. He has practiced in the regulatory, commercial litigation and antitrust fields locally and across the African continent for over 25 years and has been recognised as a leader in his field in relation to all of these practice areas.

John has been a member of ICC FraudNet since 2011 and has assisted and led a number of local and global asset recovery mandates. He has interacted bi-annually at our ICC FraudNet conferences, often speaking on developments in South Africa. In many instances John has led numerous local advocacy initiatives which have included proposed legislative amendments aimed at strengthening key recommendations, such as those contained in the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture (commonly known as the Zondo Report), significantly expanding the reach of these respective agencies’ capabilities and facilitating international best practice initiatives in addressing large scale public and private malfeasance.

John is the regional representative for the International Bar Associations (IBA) Anti-Corruption committee. John has been the lead in relation to representing various parties before the Zondo Commission of inquiry and assisted in civil redress in South Africa’s largest ever corporate fraud matter. John has represented foreign entities in relation to the South African Revenue Services and South African Reserve Bank's largest ever investigation and prosecution of money laundering. John has represented clients in the precedent setting Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal cases, establishing the legal mechanism for collective redress (class-action) for civil damages.