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Founded in 2012, Signature Litigation has grown into one of London’s pre-eminent specialist dispute resolution practices. From the outset, we set out to do things differently: a conflict-free, disputes-only platform designed to give clients the undivided focus and strategic agility that complex, high-stakes matters demand.

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Gibraltar

Established in 2017, Signature Litigation's Gibraltar office was founded to address growing demand for specialist expertise in commercial litigation and private wealth disputes on the Rock.

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Paris

Signature Litigation AARPI houses one of France’s most enviable product liability practices, with the team also handling commercial and corporate litigation, insurance and reinsurance, toxic tort and ESG, civil fraud and asset tracing, international arbitration, administrative and public law.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt has emerged as one of Europe's foremost financial and commercial centres and, increasingly, as a bridge between European and Asian markets. With that growth comes an increasing demand for sophisticated dispute resolution. Signature Litigation established its Frankfurt office to meet this need, bringing our conflict-free, disputes-only platform to the German market.

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Ben Pharoah

Associate

The quality of their service has always been exceptional. The team excels at developing and coordinating litigation strategies that are not only thorough but also realistic and perfectly aligned with clients’ expectations. 

– The Legal 500 EMEA 2026

The team is excellent, always ready to meet our needs and anticipate risks and expectations.

– The Legal 500 EMEA 2026
Very good advice, to the point and with attention to detail. 
– The Legal 500 EMEA 2026

Ben is an Associate at Signature Litigation’s Gibraltar office with experience in high-value commercial disputes.

Ben joined Signature as a Paralegal in 2022 and was enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar in 2024.

Since joining, Ben has worked on a broad range of commercial matters, with a particular focus on multi-jurisdictional contentious trust disputes. He has also supported Signature’s London office on banking and securities litigation, including claims brought under the Financial Services and Markets Act, as well as investor-state arbitration.

Prior to joining Signature Ben was a litigation paralegal at CMS, where he worked in a large team handling high-volume financial services litigation and managed caseloads of Small Claims Track matters to resolution. Before CMS, Ben worked in a disclosure review team at the Serious Fraud Office.

Ben studied Law at the University of Warwick, completing his LLB in June 2018. He completed the Legal Practice Course in London at BPP University in 2020.

  • Representing the beneficiary of a family trust in multiple contentious trust proceedings with the total value of GBP 2bn concerning privacy, as well as anti-suit injunction proceedings in Gibraltar related to a derivative action against the directors of a listed company in England.
  • Representing over 200 institutional claimants with respect to over 1,000 different funds/portfolios in a c. GBP 1.5bn group action claim against Standard Chartered involving allegations of untrue or misleading statements and omissions in information published by the Defendant to the market giving rise to claims under s90 and s90A Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
  • Representing US investor Discovery Global LLC in a USD 600m ICSID arbitration against Slovakia concerning breaches of the US-Slovakia Bilateral Investment Treaty relating to Discovery’s investment in oil and gas exploration activities in eastern Slovakia.
  • Representing a principal beneficiary of a multi-jurisdictional discretionary trust in relation to contested trustee removal proceedings before the Royal Court of Jersey, concerning issues of trustee conduct, breaches of fiduciary duty, and the governance of co-ordinate trust structures holding interests in a business valued at c. GBP 250M.
  • Representing c-level employees in relation to the negotiation of compromise agreements.

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