Ben is an Of Counsel based in London specialising in Financial Services Regulatory and Banking Litigation.
Ben specialises in advising banks and other financial institutions on a wide range of contentious matters including contentious financial services regulatory issues.
Ben's areas of expertise include mis-selling claims (in relation to a wide variety of investment products including derivatives and structured products), fraud claims, banking confidentiality, limitation issues and contractual disputes.
Ben has extensive commercial litigation experience and helps financial services clients with a range of regulatory and compliance matters including investigations and complaints handling as well as governance, conduct of business issues and skilled persons' reviews.
Background
In 2013-2014, Ben spent 14 months at a major UK bank on a senior secondment in the Commercial Banking Litigation team. Ben has previously worked in the Herbert Smith Freehills Sydney office.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Recent matters include advising on large scale remediation programmes, including devising, implementing and conducting reviews of past business, swap mis-selling litigation and key roles for a global investment bank in relation to the cross-border FX investigations.