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Ben Griffiths
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Ben is a corporate, insolvency and financial law specialist. His expertise spans both advisory work and litigation in the fields of company law, corporate restructuring and insolvency, banking, financial services, LLP law, professional negligence and civil fraud. He has wide-ranging experience of commercial and financial litigation and arbitration, including complex, multi-jurisdictional claims. Ben is regularly instructed to act both as sole counsel and with a leader. He has appeared in all courts from the High Court (Chancery Division, Commercial Court and Companies Court) through to the Supreme Court and the Privy Council. Recent significant cases include BAT Industries v Sequana, Carlyle Capital Corporation v Conway, Mezhprombank v Pugachev, MF Global and Kaupthing.
Career
Downing College, Cambridge. Called Lincoln’s Inn 2004.
PUBLICATIONS:
Buckley on the Companies Acts.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR, ILA.
Member of ILA Technical Committee.
Member of Law Society Company Law Committee.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Company
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Ben Griffiths – Erskine Chambers ‘Ben is thorough, methodical, calm under pressure and thinks around every corner to give clear advice.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Erskine Chambers find their strength in contentious insolvency and corporate restructuring, with members of chambers advising on a number of substantial restructuring and insolvency procedures. The set is noteworthy in areas where insolvency meets banking and finance, including litigation arising from the insolvency of financial institutions, as well as matters crossing over with the set’s company law reputation. Peter Arden KC has been instructed in connection with major insolvencies and restructurings, including the case of Re LB Holdings Intermediate 2 Ltd which involved a dispute over the distribution of a surplus held by an element of collapsed bank Lehman Brothers, estimated between £800m and £1bn. Andrew Thompson KC is experienced in high-value litigation, while Ben Griffiths is noted for his cross-border practice, having acted for Signal Credit on its claim to challenge the $1bn restructuring of the Galapagos Group in Galapagos Bidco v Signal. Ben Shaw KC was appointed silk in March 2023.