Keith Brandt

Practice Areas

Keith is Managing Partner and head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution group of Dentons Hong Kong. He has more than 37 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 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.

Professional Memberships

• Appointed Panel Arbitrator, Guangzhou Arbitration Committee, April 2021 - present

• Member, Advisory Committee on Promotion of Arbitration, Department of Justice, March 2021 - present

• Appointed Convenor, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, May 2020 - present

• Appointed Deputy Convenor, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, June 2017 - May 2020

• Appointed Chairman, Appeals Tribunal, 2015 - November 2021

• Appointed Secretary, ICC Hong Kong, 2014 - present

• 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

Publications

Keith is a contributing author of Business Law Chapter in Sweet & Maxwell's 3 editions of Bullen Leake and Jacob Hong Kong Precedents of Pleadings, last republished in late 2020.

Personal

Admissions and Qualifications

• Solicitor and Barrister, Supreme Court of Australian Capital Territory, 1990

• Solicitor, Australia, 1990

• Solicitor, England & Wales, 1985

• Solicitor, Hong Kong, 1985