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Aisling Dwyer
Work Department
Dispute Resolution & Insolvency
Position
Aisling is partner of Maples and Calder’s Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team at the Maples Group.
A barrister by training, Aisling specialises in complex, high value, international cross border litigation and acts in some of Asia’s largest offshore corporate, insolvency/restructuring and shareholder disputes. She is an expert in contentious matters and has a particular interest in take-privates, statutory mergers, contentious valuations and schemes of arrangement.
Career
Aisling joined the Maples Group in 2009 in the British Virgin Islands, and moved to the Hong Kong office in 2011. She was elected as a partner in 2017. Aisling was involved in some of the British Virgin Island’s largest fund litigation following the global financial crisis. Prior to joining the Maples Group, she worked for another firm in the British Virgin Islands and before that, practised as a barrister in London for four years (having trained at the top ranking professional negligence, insurance and reinsurance set, 4 New Square). At the London Bar she appeared routinely in court as an advocate in commercial and common law matters, conducting her own trials and cross-examining witnesses, and was also led by various silks in multi-million pound commercial disputes.
Aisling has been recommended by The Legal 500 and was short-listed as a “Rising Star in Litigation” in the Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Awards in 2013, 2015 and 2017. In 2018, she was named in Asian Legal Business’ 40 under 40 list, which profiles the most accomplished lawyers in Asia under 40 years of age.
Languages
English
Memberships
Member and Past Co-Chair of the Hong Kong chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
Asia Regional Vice Director of IWIRC International
Member and Director of the Company and Insolvency Law Society (COINS)
Member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL)
Fully qualified member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
Member of the Hong Kong chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
Education
University College Cork, Ireland, BCL (1st Class) (Awarded Graduate of the Year)
London School of Economics, LLM (Distinction) (British Council Chevening Scholar)
College of Law, London, Bar Vocational Course (Outstanding) (Ranked 2nd in the Year and awarded the Buchanan Prize and the Hubert Greenland Scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn)
Lawyer Rankings
Hong Kong > Offshore law firms
(Leading partners)Ann Ng, Matt Roberts, and John Trehey jointly lead the team at Maples Group
, which is hailed by clients as the ‘market leader for offshore law firms in Asia‘. Ng specialises in fund formation and often acts for investors and sponsors, Roberts primarily assists financial institutions and SPACs with corporate governance matters and the full spectrum of capital markets issues, and Trehey is known for his extensive cross-border disputes and insolvency expertise, often handling matters involving Cayman Islands and BVI structures. Derrick Kan often handles matters concerning listings in the US, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, while Aisling Dwyer often appears before the Cayman Islands and BVI courts on behalf of private equity houses and ultra-high-net-worth families. Nick Stern is well-versed in cross-border insolvencies and restructurings. Terence Ho is well-known for his expertise in the structuring and formation of hedge, private equity, and venture capital funds, and Josie Ainley is recommended for her knowledge of downstream transactions and the maintenance of hedge funds. Key figures within the team include Vivian Lee, who routinely assists with the listing of Cayman Islands company shares in Hong Kong and the US, and Jessica Zhan often advises financial institutions and SOEs on series financings and SPACs.