Keagan Hyslop
Keagan Hyslop is an Associate Designate in our Corporate & Commercial practice, with a focus 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)
- Awaiting admission 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)
- Awaiting admission as an attorney in 2024
Languages
- English
Experience
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
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...
Prescription: Fairness trumps legal certainty
Prescription of debts is generally absolute in its impact, and can be said to have a “ guillotine effect ” as a claim for a debt is unenforceable once it has prescribed. The rationale...
