Hylton Cochrane's documented career belongs to South Africa's legal profession. His legal work has been associated with Johannesburg and Pretoria, two major centres of the Gauteng province, where commercial, property and estate matters form a substantial part of attorneys' work for private and business clients.
Hylton Cochrane holds a Bachelor of Science degree with chemistry as its field, and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree. The LLB is the standard undergraduate law qualification in South Africa, and it provides the academic foundation for admission to legal practice as an attorney.
Hylton Cochrane practises as a partner at Bowman Gilfillan Hayman Godfrey Inc. The firm name belongs to one of the predecessor practices of the present Bowman Gilfillan. Bowman Gilfillan Hayman Godfrey was established in 1902, and in 1998 it merged with Findlay & Tait, founded in 1885, and John & Kernick, founded in 1923, to form Bowman Gilfillan. The firm later became part of the Bowmans group of African law firms, which includes a Bowman Gilfillan practice in South Africa.
Bowman Gilfillan has offices in Johannesburg (Sandton), Cape Town and London, and describes itself as a corporate law firm. Its practice areas include banking and finance, commercial property and competition law.
His own areas of practice are general practice together with corporate, commercial, taxation, real estate and deceased estates law.
