Keagan Hyslop
Keagan Hyslop is an Associate in our Corporate & Commercial practice. His focus is on mergers and acquisitions, general commercial law, and company law.
About Keagan
About Keagan
After graduating from the University of Johannesburg with a BCom (Law) in 2019 and a LLB in 2021, Keagan joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in 2022 as a candidate attorney. As a Candidate Attorney, Keagan spent time in our Dispute Resolution, Employment Law and Corporate & Commercial practices. In 2024, Keagan was retained as an Associate in our Corporate & Commercial practice.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- BCom (Law), University of Johannesburg (Cum Laude)
- LLB, University of Johannesburg (Cum Laude)
- Admitted as an attorney in 2024
Languages
Languages
- English
About Keagan
After graduating from the University of Johannesburg with a BCom (Law) in 2019 and a LLB in 2021, Keagan joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr in 2022 as a candidate attorney. As a Candidate Attorney, Keagan spent time in our Dispute Resolution, Employment Law and Corporate & Commercial practices. In 2024, Keagan was retained as an Associate in our Corporate & Commercial practice.
Credentials
Education
- BCom (Law), University of Johannesburg (Cum Laude)
- LLB, University of Johannesburg (Cum Laude)
- Admitted as an attorney in 2024
Languages
- English
Experience
Sanofi-Aventis South Africa
Advised Sanofi-Aventis South Africa Proprietary Limited in the sale by Sanofi-Aventis South Africa Proprietary Limited of its entire shareholding in Opella Healthcare South Proprietary Limited, which housed its South Africa based consumer healthcare unit and CHOICE range of products, to CFAO Société Anonyme.
Social Employment Fund
Advised and provided legal support to the Industrial Development Corporation in implementing, as part of the Presidential Employment Stimulus, its award-winning Social Employment Fund project that created over 100,000 job opportunities as part of its mandate to advance sustainable job creation throughout communities in South Africa.
Drafting M&A transaction agreements and documents; transaction management; legal due diligence investigations; Companies Tribunal applications; and drafting opinions on the Companies Act No 71 of 2008 and the law of contract.
Corporate structuring, which includes drafting and preparing memoranda of incorporation and shareholders agreements;onshore corporate structuring for offshore clients; and private individual corporate structuring.
Drafting general commercial agreements including service level, services and management agreements, collaboration and other relationship agreements, security agreements, asset-for-share agreements, and supply agreements.
News
50/50 shareholders and oppressive conduct: When some shareholders are more equal than others
A fundamental principle of South African company law is “ majority rules ” – shareholders and directors are bound by the decisions of the majority even where such decisions are not...
Know your limitations: Lessons from English case law on limitations of liability
Managing risk and allocating liability forms the focal (and sticking) point of many agreements, whether transactional (e.g. a sale) or relationship-based (e.g. a services agreement)....
Directors’ duties as they approach the abyss
A director is required at all times to act in the best interests of the company. “ Company ” in this context, is widely considered to be the present and future shareholders of the...
If you forgot, then it was not that important: Missing annexures and tacit terms in contracts
It is no surprise that in the fast-paced commercial world parties may miss an annexure or omit a term when concluding and executing contracts. This raises the question of how a court...
An employer who is responsible for setting the rules in the workplace, must also abide by them
That is the lesson from the Labour Court’s ruling in Mahonono v National Heritage Council and Others (J742/2022) 2022 ZALCJHB 188 (18 July 2022). In the workplace employers assume...
