Benjamin John

Practice Areas

Ben is an expert in commercial and chancery litigation and arbitration. In 2025, 2022 and 2020, he was nominated variously for Commercial Litigation Junior of the Year (Legal 500 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. Recent major cases include aspects of the PrivatBank v Kolomoisky litigation, 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. Ben acts in the full range of commercial disputes, in civil fraud and asset tracing claims, banking and finance, company and partnership matters and claims against fiduciaries and trustees, appearing in tribunals from the Supreme Court down. Much of Ben’s work is international and he has considerable experience of jurisdictional issues, freezing relief, substantive foreign law and enforcement. He is also an expert in litigation involving Sovereign states.

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

Publications

Civil Fraud: Law, Practice & Procedure”, Sweet & Maxwell