Dentons Hong Kong

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Keith is Managing Partner and head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution group of Dentons Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Dentons Global Board and serves on a number of the Global Boards’ subcommittees. He has more than 38 years’ experience in heavyweight dispute resolution, including high court/commercial court litigation, domestic and international arbitration, expert determinations, alternative dispute resolution, and mediations with particular focus on the energy, construction and financial services sectors.

Keith has been widely recognised by various legal publications. He was named “Managing Partner of the Year” at the Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2024 and was selected as one of the Top 15 Litigators in Asia by Asian Legal Business in 2021. Chambers Greater China 2024 ranked Keith as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Litigation for China. A client commented that “I find Keith Brandt to be an extremely knowledgeable, experienced and clear-headed solicitor. He is a very amiable and courteous character. I am particularly impressed by his knack in dealing with lay clients in situations which are sometimes quite difficult.”

Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 ranked Keith as a leading individual in Dispute Resolution: Litigation for Hong Kong. He is praised by a client as a lawyer who is “top quality legal brain, highly organised, proactive and very well-liked by clients.”

Keith was also ranked as a leading professional in Arbitration and Asset Recovery and a recommended lawyer for Mainland China & Hong Kong SAR by Who’s Who Legal 2023. He was recognised as an elite practitioner in The Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: Hong Kong 2023. The firm which Keith managed was named as “Civil Litigation Law Firm of the Year” by Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2019. Global Law Experts 2020 awarded Keith, and the team he led, as “Financial Services Sector Disputes Law Firm of the Year” in Hong Kong. Keith was also named to the Asian Legal Business' lawyers "Hot 100" list which recognised Asia's leaders, movers & shakers.

Keith has a varied client base with an international background operating in a diversified number of jurisdictions, with particular experience in Asia Pacific including Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Middle East, including the Indian sub-continent.

Chief Representative, Dentons Beijing Representative Office, to date Member, Dentons Global Board, 2022 to date Managing Partner, Dentons Hong Kong, 2011 to date Chief Representative Hammonds Beijing Representative Office, 2004 to 2010 Senior Partner, Hammonds Hong Kong, 2001-2010 Partner, Hammonds, 1995 to 2010 Lovell White Durrant, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and London, 1988-1995 Solicitor, Johnson Stokes and Master, Hong Kong, 1985-1988 Articled, Pritchard Englefield & Tobin, 1985

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Appointed Vice Chairman, ICC Hong Kong, June 2023 - present Appointed Panel Arbitrator, Guangzhou Arbitration Committee, April 2021 - present Member, Advisory Committee on Promotion of Arbitration, Department of Justice, March 2021 - present Appointed Secretary, ICC Hong Kong, 2014 – June 2023 Appointed Convenor, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, May 2020 – May 2023 Appointed Chairman, Appeals Tribunal, 2015 - November 2021 Appointed Deputy Convenor, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, June 2017 - May 2020 Appointed Chairman, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunals, 2012, 2013 and 2016 Elected Executive Committee Member, ICC Hong Kong, 2013-2014 Former Member, Hong Kong Law Society Claims Committee

University of Warwick BA (Hons) Law and Sociology, Class II Div. I