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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 individuals)A well-established presence in Asia through its Hong Kong and Singapore offices and also noted for its collaborative approach with colleagues through its global network, Maples Group provides ‘responsive, commercial and knowledgeable’ advice on Cayman Isles and BVI laws across a broad range of transactional and litigation work. Under the guidance of Matt Roberts corporate and securities work has always been a strength and despite the relatively difficult economic conditions, the firm continues to pick up a high proportion of capital markets work. As well as Roberts himself, the ‘very knowledgeable and experienced’ Derrick Kan also excels in handling issuer HKSE-listed IPOs, both in the context of conventional issuances and SPAC matters. As well as advising on new money mandates, the firm has also been at the forefront of restructuring/insolvency work within the beleaguered Chinese real estate market, with leading litigator Nick Stern picking up both debtor and creditor roles in relation to the three Cayman Islands schemes of arrangement that were implemented by PRC real estate companies in 2022. Aisling Dwyer has also been involved in the aforementioned real estate-related insolvency matters leveraging her wide-ranging litigation skills that are also regularly brought to bear on high-profile shareholder disputes. Open and closed end funds, including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital, real estate and infrastructure funds. Other recommended practitioners include John Trehey, who heads up the overarching dispute resolution and insolvency group in Asia; the ‘fantastic’ Ann Ng for investment fund work; and Josie Ainley in relation to fund formation as well as subsequent downstream transactional work.