Maples and Calder, which advises on the laws of the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, has appointed four new Partners across its global network including its Hong Kong office.

In Hong Kong Aisling Dwyer, becomes a partner. A barrister by training, she specialises in complex, high value cross border litigation and acts in some of Asia’s largest offshore corporate, insolvency, restructuring and shareholder disputes.  

Dwyer is an expert in contentious matters in both the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands (BVI), and has a particular interest in, statutory mergers, contentious valuations and schemes of arrangement. 

She joined Maples and Calder's British Virgin Islands office in 2009 and moved to the firm's Hong Kong office in 2011. She previously worked for Forbes Hare in the BVI for two years and before that practised as a barrister in London.  

The firm also appointed new partners in the firm's Dublin and British Virgin Islands offices.