Richard Li

Richard Li is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on a broad range of complex commercial litigation, including mergers and acquisitions litigation, stockholder derivative claims, intellectual property disputes, and securities class actions.
 
Mr. Li has represented public and private corporations, boards of directors, special litigation committees, individual directors and officers, and alternative entities and their managers in a wide variety of disputes before the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court. He regularly advises senior executives and boards of directors on fiduciary duties and corporate governance matters, particularly those involving mergers and acquisitions, and has represented investors and corporations in connection with activist matters and proxy contests. He has also served as counsel to special committees and corporate clients conducting internal investigations in response to stockholder litigation demands and derivative litigation.
 
Prior to joining Willkie, he served as a judicial law clerk to Vice Chancellor Paul A. Fioravanti of the Delaware Court of Chancery. A proud first-generation lawyer, Mr. Li is an active member of Willkie's First Generation Professionals Affinity Group.