Dr Jacqueline Louise Yeats

Dr Jacqueline Yeats is an Associate Professor in the Commercial Law department at UCT. She obtained her BA LLB and LLM degrees at the University of Stellenbosch and her PhD at UCT. She was an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa before joining the Commercial Law Department of UCT in 2005. She teaches company law at Postgraduate (LLB and LLM) level. After graduating Dr Yeats taught at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of the Western Cape whilst completing her LLM. Prior to joining UCT she practised as a commercial attorney at Jan S De Villiers (now Werksmans Attorneys) and later as a Senior Associate in the Corporate Commercial department of ENS. Her areas of interest, research and publication include securities, mergers and acquisitions, the Companies Act of 2008 and corporate governance. Her PhD, which she obtained in 2016, focused on the potential effectiveness of the appraisal remedy in the South African context. Dr Yeats has published a number of articles related to company law issues in academic journals and chapters in books, presented papers at local and international academic conferences and is a co-author of the work Contemporary Company Law 2ed (Juta) 2012. She also co-authored and is the Managing Editor of a new version of Blackman’s Commentary on the Companies Act (Juta) 2008 which was published in 2018. She won the UCT Distinguished Teacher's Award in 2018. Dr Yeats is the founder and director of a new research, teaching and advocacy initiative, the Corporate Law and Governance Unit, which was established at UCT in 2021.