Clifford Chance LLP

Real Estate

Ben Hatton specialises in property litigation and dispute resolution and litigation risk-avoidance.

Ben has expertise in all aspects of property disputes and landlord and tenant issues, with particular expertise in development issues including rights of light, rent review advice and arbitrations, property-related insolvency, professional negligence on property matters, asset management disputes including expert determinations and disputes in relation to contracts and issues arising out of Brexit.

His expertise includes rent review opinion writing, service charge disputes, fit-out disputes, dilapidations, alienation disputes, forfeiture, enfranchisement issues, easements, restrictive covenants, possession actions, contract and joint venture disputes, mortgage & charge portfolio enforcement and foreclosure, property finance disputes, 1954 Act disputes, and advising lenders and developers on risks on developments.

Ben is experienced in County Courts, High Court, Court of Appeal, Mediations, Expert Determinations and Arbitrations.

Trainee solicitor, Eversheds 1999

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2001

Passed Law Society Advocacy & Evidence, Ethics & Procedure Exams for Solicitor Advocacy 2002

Associate, Linklaters 2005

Joined Clifford Chance as Senior Associate 2006

Director since 2016

Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales

Member of the Property Litigation Association

Member of the Education & Training Committee of the Property Litigation Association

The University of Sheffield (LLB Law) 1997

Nottingham Law School (Diploma in Legal Practice) 1999