Keith Brandt

Practice Areas

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 2025 ranked Keith as a leading partner 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 recommended lawyer for Arbitration and Asset Recovery in Lexology Index: Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR 2024 report. He was recognised as a highly regarded lawyer for Restructuring and insolvency in Hong Kong by IFLR 1000 2024 and 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.

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of England & Wales

• Law Society of Hong Kong

• Various professional memberships including International Bar Association and ICC Hong Kong

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

Committees

• 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

Expert in these Jurisdictions

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

• Solicitor, Australia, 1990

• Solicitor, England & Wales, 1985

• Solicitor, Hong Kong, 1985

Languages Spoken

English

Education