Dentons Hong Kong

Keith is Managing Partner of Dentons Hong Kong. He is also Global Vice Chair and a member of the Dentons Global Board and serving on a number of the Global Boards’ subcommittees. He has more than 40 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 2025 ranked Keith as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Litigation for China. A client commented that “I find Keith to be a most astute and commercial-minded lawyer. He is extremely insightful.” Another client described Keith as “an outstanding lawyer, organiser and person to have on your side. He's great when it comes to client care." 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 named a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2025 and 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 IFLR1000 2025 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.

Jeff Chen heads the structured finance practice at Dentons Hong Kong LLP with pan-Asia coverage on cross-border transactions. Jeff has over 20 years' experience in Asia as a legal practitioner in all areas of fixed income, including securitization, structured notes, derivatives, private structured debt, distressed debt, and project finance. Jeff has enjoyed prominent league table rankings throughout his career: Leading lawyer (Band 3) in Capital Markets: Securitisation in the 2024 Chambers & Partners Greater China Guide Leading Individual in Structured Finance and Securitisation in the 2025 Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide Highly regarded lawyer in Capital markets : Structured finance and securitization in the 2024 IFLR1000 Asia Pacific Guide Winner for Fixed Income Lawyer of the Year in China chosen by Leaders in Law – 2023 Global Awards Acritas Star – independently rated lawyer in Thomson Reuters2021 survey of global senior in-house counsels Lead lawyer on IFLR 2020 Structured Finance and Securitisation Deal of the Year (with the same nomination on another deal in 2021) Leading lawyer in the 2008 IFLR Global Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance and Securitization Lawyers

Alfred is a partner in Dentons' Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group based in Hong Kong. With over 25 years of experience, Alfred is a highly regarded lawyer in the areas of general commercial litigation, arbitration and construction. He advises clients on a broad range of commercial disputes primarily in arbitration. His arbitration experience include both local and international arbitrations. Clients he has represented include banks, Hong Kong listed issuers, multinational corporations, funds, accountants/ liquidators and high-net-worth individuals. Alfred also has a special focus on contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering matters representing international, China and Hong Kong based clients which variously include government departments, statutory bodies, employers, engineers, architects, contractors and subcontractors. Alfred also represents clients in construction-related criminal investigations and prosecutions. On the contentious side, Alfred has represented clients in various disputes, in litigation and arbitration, arising from infrastructure and building construction projects in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China and the region. Projects involved include various large scale road/highway development projects, water supply and sewer main development projects, railway projects, housing projects, land reclamation, hospital projects, the Hong Kong International Airport, Environmental Protection Department projects, casinos in Macau, LPG facilities in China, etc. The issues in dispute include variations, delays, loss and expense, measurement of quantities, defective works, suspension/termination of works, negligence (including collapse of works under construction and demolition), and other payment issues (including interim payments, final accounts and retention money). In addition, there were tender related issues, employment issues, sub-contractor nomination issues, insolvency issues, environmental issues, regulatory violations, bribery on construction sites, fraud, etc. On the non-contentious side, Alfred has advised on all Hong Kong Government standard forms of contract, FIDIC, NEC, JCT and ICE forms of contract, as well as bespoke and other private forms of contract. He also regularly advises on tendering processes, consultancy agreements, formation of joint ventures (both incorporated and unincorporated), post-contract risk issues as well as construction bonds, guarantees and other construction related instruments. Alfred also regularly takes on appointments as arbitrator for construction related and other commercial arbitrations. He is an HKIAC Accredited Mediator and a panel arbitrator of the HKIAC, SIAC, AIAC, APIAC, SHIAC and KCAB. He sits regularly in ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations administered by the HKIAC, SIAC and SHIAC. Alfred has been ranked as a leading construction practitioner in Chambers & Partners from 2016 to 2025. In the latest edition of Chambers Greater China guide, an impressed client said, “I really like Alfred; he is very hard-working and very responsive. He is very attentive to detail and his legal drafting is accurate.” Another client added, “Alfred Wu has an engineering background, so he understands a lot of the technical issues which arise in these cases. His ability to understand and explain them in simpler terms is a real asset.” In the testimonial for his leading individual ranking for construction in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023-2025, Alfred has been recognised for his “deep litigation expertise in the sector both on regular fee-earning matters as well as in his role as an arbitrator”. A client commented, “Alfred Wu provided a first-class service in delivering focussed and responsive advice. He also ensured that the barrister team had what they needed to properly fight the case, much to the client’s benefit. He was a stand out lawyer on this matter.” Alfred was ranked as a Litigation Star in Construction and Commercial & Transactions by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific 2025. He was also recognised in International Arbitration as a well-known practitioner by the Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist 2023, and one client commented, “Alfred Wu is the principal partner. He is very experienced and conscientious, gains the confidence of clients and leads his team very capably on behalf of his clients." Lexology Index also ranked Alfred as a recommended lawyer for Arbitration and Construction in its Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR 2024 report.