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Ben Summers
Position
Ben Summers has a practice in business crime, professional discipline, public inquiries and inquests, and regulatory matters, with specialist experience in data protection issues.
Ben was called to the Bar in 1994 and following a civil pupillage, he joined QEB Hollis Whiteman where he was in independent practice for eight years. He then joined leading white collar solicitors firm Peters & Peters in March 2003 and transferred to become a solicitor in November 2004; he was appointed as a partner in November 2007. In May 2009 Ben resumed independent practice at the Bar and joined Three Raymond Buildings.
In 2019 Ben was named by the Legal 500 as the ‘Crime Junior of the Year’. Between April 2020 and August 2021 Ben worked at Hogan Lovells LLP where he practised in the firm’s Litigation and Arbitration group; his experience working closely with his instructing solicitors means that he can provide a first class service to both his professional and lay clients.
Career
Called 1994; advocacy trainer for Inner Temple.
Memberships
Chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel’s Data Protection Sub-Committee; CBA; Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers; Fraud Lawyers Association.
Education
University of Sussex (LLB).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Business and regulatory crime (including global investigations)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Police law (forces and constables)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Fraud: crime
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Ben Summers – Three Raymond Buildings ‘Ben is a master tactician and a class act in complex cases. His attention to detail is impeccable, his written submissions are outstanding and he has a commanding presence before any tribunal.’
Three Raymond Buildings is widely considered as having a strong range of criminal silks, many of them active in heavyweight fraud cases. Helen Malcolm KC’s broad experience includes complex and high-value tax fraud cases, while Richard Wormald KC has recently acted for the first defendant in an international £150m cash couriering fraud, involving the alleged use of the hawala system to transfer criminal funds to Dubai. Ben Summers’ ‘methodical, intelligent, and highly strategic approach to the presentation of cases’ is valued by his clients.