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.

• Advised Nedbank Group Limited in the sale of its 21.2% shareholding in Ecobank Transnational Incorporated to Bosquet Investments Limited for USD100 million. 

• Advised Sibanye Stillwater Limited on the enhancement of the historical Marikana Contract and the conclusion of a new chrome management agreement with a joint venture between Glencore Operations South Africa and Merafe Ferrochrome and Mining. 

• Advised Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited on its acquisition, through its wholly owned Australian subsidiary Harmony Gold (Australia) Pty Limited, of 100% of the securities in MAC Copper Limited for USD1.03 billion.

• Advised Vodacom Group Limited and Vodafone Kenya Limited on Vodacom Group's acquisition, through Vodafone Kenya Limited, of a further effective 20% of the issued share capital of Safaricom PLC for USD2.1 billion.

• 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.

   

• 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.