Robert Li

United Kingdom

Senior Reporter at CDR (Commercial Dispute Resolution)

Senior Reporter at African Law and Business

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Articles

CJC recommends restoration of UK funding

5 days ago | cdr-news.com | Robert Li

The long-awaited final report calls for light-touch regulation of third-party funding, and the drawing of a statutory distinction between it and damages-based agreements. The UK Civil Justice Council yesterday (2 June) released its long-awaited Final Report on Litigation Funding, with the 150-page document making 58 recommendations which look set to restore the status of third-party funding agreements in England and Wales, and put the mechanism into a better position going forward.
Friday round-up: CMS enters India

1 week ago | cdr-news.com | Robert Li

A recently retired ex-Freshfields Cologne office managing partner has set up his own practice, while Kirkland & Ellis in the US has poached 13-litigator team from King & Spalding. The round-up begins with the news that Indian law firm IndusLaw has become part of CMS, marking the global legal services brand’s first foray into the South Asian country.
SIAC signs more MoUs

1 week ago | cdr-news.com | Robert Li

The high-profile arbitral institution continues to cement closer relationships with counterparts globally, this time with Russian and Filipino organisations. The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) has entered into an agreement with the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration (RIMA), the parent organisation of arbitral institution the Russian Arbitration Center, it was announced on Friday (23 May).
Egyptian platform concludes USD 15.7 million funding

1 week ago | africanlawbusiness.com | Robert Li

Online automotive marketplace Sylndr has concluded its Series A funding round, involving notable international and Africa-focused law firms. Egyptian trading platform Sylndr has closed its Series A funding round, raising USD 15.7 million. International law firm Taylor Wessing provided legal advice to Sylndr on the transaction, which closed on 20 May.
Ex-Bradley Arant energy co-chair moves to O’Melveny in Houston

1 week ago | cdr-news.com | Robert Li

A trial lawyer with extensive energy-sector and arbitration experience is the latest partner to arrive at the Los Angeles-headquartered firm. O’Melveny & Myers has hired Meghan McElvy as a partner in its Houston general litigation and energy industry groups, effective 21 May.
Paul Weiss litigation co-chair among four-partner exit

1 week ago | cdr-news.com | Robert Li

Karen Dunn has left along with three other DC-based and disputes-focused colleagues, in the wake of President Trump’s continuing executive orders against high-end law firms for “harmful activity”. A four-partner litigation team including a head of practice has left US firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Biographical information on former litigation practice co-chair and ex-federal prosecutor Karen Dunn is no longer accessible on the firm’s website.
Can rumours cause an increase in transaction related disputes?

1 week ago | cdr-news.com | Robert Li

Published by:Alex Houston and Neil Ruddon May 27, 2025Authors from Crowe consider the risk of disputes that arise when market speculation rushes commercial parties into making deals. With the Labour government’s first budget for a 14-year period, on 30 October 2024, the anticipation and therefore rumours were abundant in the lead up.
Friday round-up: Ashurst exits Canberra

2 weeks ago | cdr-news.com | Robert Li

Ashurst’s commonwealth government-focused office will become part of Australian firm Thomson Geer in July, in a week where a German white-collar boutique has opened a Cologne office and an international industry group has elected new executives, amid more US ex-public service lawyers returning to private practice.
IBA confirms arbitration’s homogeneity

2 weeks ago | cdr-news.com | Robert Li

Continued low levels of ethnic diversity negatively impact arbitration’s perceived legitimacy, but a survey suggests it still receives considerably less attention than efforts to address gender disparities.
A&O Shearman litigator takes up CMS disputes mantle in Bratislava

2 weeks ago | cdr-news.com | Robert Li

A litigation and arbitration practitioner with eight years’ Magic Circle firm experience has moved to CMS to head its Slovakia disputes practice. CMS has hired Peter Plachy as counsel and head of its Bratislava, Slovakia-based dispute resolution practice, effective Friday (16 May).