Personal bio
My name is Carlos Li (PCLL(CUHK), JD(CUHK), MA(HKU), MSc(PolyU), BA(Hons)(PolyU), FHKIArb, Accredited HKMAAL General Mediator and CMILT). Prior to my legal career, I worked in a listing liner shipping from 2002 to 2015 and my last position was general manager of operations department in charge of port, ship, crew, cargo stowage, transshipment and equipment control. I was an auxiliary police constable of The Hong Kong Police Force from 2004 to 2012. I was admitted as a HKSAR (China) solicitor on 20 September 2021. I am now working as an assistant solicitor in Messrs. M.C.A. Lai Solicitors LLP in HKSAR (China). My areas of practice include litigation, employees' compensation, personal injuries, property damage, commercial and company laws, false imprisonment, criminal law, probate and so on. I am particularly interested in litigation, arbitration, mediation, maritime law, shipping law, admiralty law, port law, transport law and transport infrastructure law. I was approved as a fellow member of The Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators on 14 June 2024. I acquired accreditation for general mediator of The Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association Limited on 13 December 2024. I also obtained other mediation certificates in investor-state mediator training, family mediation and GBA meditator training in the past few years. I have studied PhD in Laws at The Chinese University of Hong Kong but have yet to graduate. My main research area is investor-state dispute settlement. My previous undergraduate research was about cruise segmentation and postgraduate thesis was relating to shipping law. Some journal articles were published during my PhD study. I was invited to be a guest lecturer for a lecture at the School of Law of The City University of Hong Kong on 26 March 2013. I was a conference speaker in the AIJA Half-Year May Conference 2019. They are illustrated as follows:
(1) Star Cruises: Market Segmentation in Hong Kong Cruise Market (Undergraduate research in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2001)
(2) Effectiveness of The Rotterdam Rules in Multimodal Transport: A Critical Evaluation (https://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/199873 ) and (https://www.amazon.ca/Effectiveness-Rotterdam-Rules-Multimodal-Transport/dp/1361344318);
(3) "Liner Operations and Shipping Practices" (Guest lecturer for a lecture at the School of Law of The City University of Hong Kong on 26 March 2013)
(4) Infrastructure Investments: Port, Rail, and International Economic Rules (https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/article.asp?key=2478) and (https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004373792/BP000022.xml);
(5) Evolution on IP Expert Evidence Management in HK: Using Inno-Technology to Probe Inno-Technology (https://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/detail/Publication/102760495?auxfun=&lang=zh_HK );
(6) Cross-Border Inno-Tech Dispute Resolution Mechanism in HK: Interest-Based Mediations (IPM, ISM and Crossover ISM) and Multi-Based Loop-Back-And-Forth ADR (https://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/detail/Publication/102760684?auxfun=&lang=zh_HK );
(7) "Fundraising in the M&A Context: China" (Conference speaker in the AIJA Half-Year May Conference 2019 on 23 May 2019); and
(8) Port and Rail Investments: Reform of Chinese Regulations, Paradigm Shift of Chinese State-Controlled Entities and Global Freedom of Investments (https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/article.asp?key=2778) and (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1368-6_29)
Last but not least, I like yacht and pleasure boat. I have a license for Pleasure Vessel Operator Grade 2 with which I can operate a yacht in length not more than 15m. My driving licences include private car, light goods vehicle and taxi.