Benjamin John

Practice Areas

Ben acts in the full range of commercial disputes, civil fraud and asset tracing, banking and finance, company and partnership matters (including insolvency) and claims against fiduciaries & trustees. Much of Ben’s work has a major international dimension and he has considerable experience of jurisdictional issues, worldwide freezing injunctions etc, substantive foreign law points and enforcement of foreign judgments and awards. He is also an expert in litigation involving Sovereign states.

He appears in tribunals from the Supreme Court down and has wide advocacy experience in the Court of Appeal, Commercial Court and Chancery Division. In 2022 and 2020 respectively, Ben was shortlisted for Commercial Junior of the Year (Legal500 Bar Awards) and Chancery Junior of the Year (Chambers UK Bar Awards).

Instructed in the most high profile and substantial matters, Ben acted for one of the two main claimants in the Brexit: Article 50 Litigation, heard by the Supreme Court en banc. Recent major cases include the Libyan Investment Authority’s litigation flowing from the collapse of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, Tugushev v Orlov, one of the largest commercial fraud cases of recent years, and various elements of the Nomura v Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena case flowing from the 2008 financial crisis.

Ben took a double First in Chemistry at Oxford. Top of his year on the GDL at City University, Ben was a Duke of Edinburgh, a Major and then a Princess Royal Scholar of Inner Temple and, at Bar School, won the Barstow Prize Scholarship.