Robert Weekes
Overview
Robert Weekes is a highly experienced partner in the Global Litigation Practice and is a key member of the Financial Services Practice; he also serves as the managing partner of the firm's London office and is a member of the firm’s Management Board. Clients retain Robert to provide advice on a wide range of financial litigation, investigations, and international dispute matters. He has particular experience in Financial Services and often acts for banks, ABL’s, Funds, and Insurers together with other financial institutions, multinational and U.K.-based entities, and individuals. He is instructed on a wide range of complex commercial disputes, including fraud investigations and asset tracing and recovery. He frequently handles banking and investment disputes, fraud and asset recovery litigation, guarantee and indemnity claims, and advises insurance companies on complex disputed claims.
Career & Education
- College of Law, Guildford, B.Sc., 1985
- England and Wales
Robert's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 06.04.25
English Court of Appeal Clarifies Law Regarding Negligent Valuations
The English Court of Appeal has recently handed down a helpful judgment, clarifying the test for breach of duty in cases of alleged negligence by valuers. In short: (i) the valuation must fall outside a reasonable margin of error of the ‘correct’ valuation; and (ii) the valuer must have carried out the valuation in a way that no reasonably competent valuer could have done (the Bolam test).
Firm News | 3 min read | 05.28.25
Amid Robust Growth, Crowell & Moring Increases London Footprint with Move to 199 Bishopsgate
Press Coverage | 04.25.25
Press Coverage | 04.22.25
Representative Matters
- Advising a U.S. corporate in relation to a commercial dispute that was critical to its business in Europe.
- Advising a Middle Eastern business on an £800 million bond dispute in London and the Middle East.
- Acting for a U.K. corporate selling a portfolio of businesses across Europe devising a litigation strategy to support the enforced completion of the sale.
- Acting for a global corporate in a procurement dispute against the Ministry of Defence.
- Acting for a major bank against directors of a commodity trading business that perpetrated a significant trading fraud.
- Advising a bank on its response to a £15 million fraud including obtaining wide-ranging injunctive orders. Reaching a commercial settlement.
- Acting for a credit insurer in dealing with a £15 million claim under the policy arising from a more than £100 million commercial fraud.
- Advising a financier on a fictitious invoicing fraud; tracing monies overseas and obtaining a worldwide freezing order and making a full recovery.
- Advising an Irish bank in relation to a £20 million fraud claim against the directors of a customer to whom the financier provided a stock and invoice finance facility.
- Advising an investor who had financed a magazine business in relation to the fraudulent activities of directors.
- Advising overseas investors in relation to a dispute with an investment bank involving a Russian share scheme.
Robert's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 06.04.25
English Court of Appeal Clarifies Law Regarding Negligent Valuations
The English Court of Appeal has recently handed down a helpful judgment, clarifying the test for breach of duty in cases of alleged negligence by valuers. In short: (i) the valuation must fall outside a reasonable margin of error of the ‘correct’ valuation; and (ii) the valuer must have carried out the valuation in a way that no reasonably competent valuer could have done (the Bolam test).
Firm News | 3 min read | 05.28.25
Amid Robust Growth, Crowell & Moring Increases London Footprint with Move to 199 Bishopsgate
Press Coverage | 04.25.25
Press Coverage | 04.22.25
Insights
UK Litigation – Class Actions: A New Era in the UK?
|01.22.20
Crowell & Moring's Litigation Forecast 2020
Crowell & Moring Continues London Push With Baker Botts Private Equity, Life Sciences Partner
|06.09.22
Law.com International
Practices
- International Dispute Resolution
- Investigations
- Litigation and Trial
- Infrastructure
- International Dispute Resolution — London Practice
- Financial Services — London Practice
- International Litigation — London Practice
- Financial Services
- Financial Services Litigation and Disputes
- Financial Services Regulatory and Enforcement
Industries
Robert's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 06.04.25
English Court of Appeal Clarifies Law Regarding Negligent Valuations
The English Court of Appeal has recently handed down a helpful judgment, clarifying the test for breach of duty in cases of alleged negligence by valuers. In short: (i) the valuation must fall outside a reasonable margin of error of the ‘correct’ valuation; and (ii) the valuer must have carried out the valuation in a way that no reasonably competent valuer could have done (the Bolam test).
Firm News | 3 min read | 05.28.25
Amid Robust Growth, Crowell & Moring Increases London Footprint with Move to 199 Bishopsgate
Press Coverage | 04.25.25
Press Coverage | 04.22.25