Biography
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.
Experience
- 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 claim against Standard Chartered Bank regarding allegations of breach of statutory obligations under s.90 and s.90A FSMA 2000. The claim relates to alleged omissions and/or misleading statements in published information arising from alleged misconduct, including breaches of Iranian sanctions. The matter generated significant Court rulings, including from the Court of Appeal, and has settled.
- 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.
Publications
Article: Crypto Firms Look Elsewhere Amid US SEC Woes – WealthBriefing – 20 June 2023