Robert Li

The weekly summary of disputes practitioner news also includes ex-Big Four litigators on the move in London and Warsaw, and a New York insolvency practitioner's defection from McDermott after only a year. The round-up begins in Southeast Asia, where Singapore-founded set Duxton Hill Chambers has added new tenant Joshua Hiew, who has left his counsel role at Allen & Gledhill after an eight-year stint. Hiew brings significant experience as a general litigator in Singapore's courts, and

The tension between attracting investors and compensating harmed consumers was another key topic during London International Disputes Week (LIDW) 2026's main conference, which also examined frontier frameworks, costs and politics. The London International Disputes Week (LIDW) 2026 main conference took place on Tuesday (3 June) at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre. The day's first panel, ‘AI, Authenticity and the Future of Evidence: Trust in a Synthetic World' reminded us that AI remain

South Africa's High Court has defined Bitcoin as ‘money' and ‘capital', clearing the way for the country's central bank to regulate the export of cryptocurrency.

Parallel disputes often raise issues such as supremacy of forum and the differing dynamics of the criminal law, according to a London International Disputes Week panel co-hosted by CDR, Peters & Peters and Essex Court Chambers. The complexities of parallel disputes across forums and jurisdictions require careful management and consideration of differing civil, arbitral and criminal standards, according to speakers on a London International Disputes Week (LIDW) panel. Jointly hosted by

The weekly disputes-related summary has seen England and Wales create a new High Court division, and the official launch of yet another UK-US merger. In Singapore, Elodie Dulac has joined arbitration boutique Peter & Kim after 15 years at King & Spalding, including 11 years as a partner. Peter & Kim Singapore office managing partner SeungMin Lee described the new partner as “a highly respected arbitration practitioner with an outstanding reputation for strategic, commercial and

Local communities are pushing back against the detrimental impact of significant investor projects, and the arbitration sector is struggling to adapt to a world that increasingly advocates for ethical systems.

An experienced litigator has left an AI company in-house role to return to private practice, bringing almost two decades' experience to the claimant-focused Midwest trial boutique. US Midwest firm Schlichter Bogard has hired Jason Kempf as a counsel in its headquarters in St Louis, Missouri, the firm announced on Friday (5 June). Kempf joins from AI company EthyrosAI in Illinois, where he briefly served as president and chief ethics officer, having had a three-year tenure as assistant ge

The North African country has closed the offering, which forms part of its international medium-term note plan.

The joint venture will bring a number of Nigerian and Benin portfolio companies under a combined agribusiness platform and a Singapore ownership structure.

The week's summary of disputes developments starts in Germany, where third-party funder Momentum has opened in Munich and a Cologne boutique has welcomed an ex-Freshfields competition partner. The southern German city of Munich sees a new third-party funder opening its doors for business: Momentum Legal Finance was founded by ex-White & Case litigator Felix von Zwehl, who has spent the past seven years at Deminor including three years as general counsel of its Germany business. “I am