Aleisha Brown
Counsel
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About
Aleisha Brown is counsel in our Litigation, Insolvency & Restructuring group in Hong Kong. Aleisha has experience in a broad range of commercial litigation matters, having acted for clients in relation to trust disputes, the winding up of offshore companies, limited partnerships and other structures, shareholder, investor and partnership disputes, schemes of arrangement, insurance claims and cross-border estate matters.
Aleisha is a STEP qualified Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) and advises individual and corporate clients including trustees, beneficiaries, protectors, and enforcers of STAR trusts on contentious and non-contentious trust matters. She was listed in the 2021/22 Private Client Global Elite Directory as a Rising Leader and was subsequently peer-nominated for the Private Client Global Elite Directory in the Excellence category in 2025 and the Elite category in 2026. Aleisha is recognised by Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a “key lawyer” and was awarded a Worldwide Excellence Award for achieving the highest pass with distinction in the STEP Advanced Certificate in Cross-Border Estates.
Aleisha spent two years practising in the Cayman Islands before relocating to Hong Kong in 2018. After relocating to Hong Kong, Aleisha was seconded to a major international bank where she assisted the bank’s private wealth business on a range of matters relating to the establishment, administration and termination of trusts.
Experience
- Insolvency and Restructuring
- Trust and Estates Litigation
- Partnership and Shareholder Disputes
- Foreign Judgment and Arbitral Award Recognition and Enforcement
- Cross-Border Fraud Litigation
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Work highlights
- Acting as lead counsel to the Plan Administrator of the Chapter 11 US Bankruptcy Code Plans of Administration for the Pacific Andes and China Fishery group of companies.
- Acting for dissenting shareholders in fair value proceedings arising out of the take private transactions of 51job, Inc. (in the Cayman Islands) and Jardine Strategic Limited (in Bermuda).
(Prior to joining Campbells):
- Acting for a corporate trustee of a Cayman Islands trust in relation to the trustee’s application for directions as to the ultimate beneficiary of the trust.
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Qualifications and admissions
- Admitted in the British Virgin Islands, 2024
- Admitted as a Solicitor in England & Wales, 2023
- Registered Foreign Lawyer, Hong Kong, 2018
- Admitted as an Attorney of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, 2016
- Admitted as an Australian Lawyer in the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia, 2011
- Honours Degree of Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours, University of Adelaide, 2010
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Professional associations
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
- International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
- Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Restructuring and Insolvency Faculty (RIF)
- INSOL International
- Women in law Hong Kong (WILHK)
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Recognition and Awards
- Private Client Global Elite Directory 2026
- Private Client Global Excellence Directory 2025
- Key Lawyer – Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024, 2025
- Rising Leader – Private Client Global Elite Directory 2021, 2022
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