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About
Provided by Ben Valentin KC
Practice Areas
Ben is a commercial disputes specialist, with acknowledged expertise in disputes involving banking and finance, civil fraud, corporate transactions and company law, and insolvency and restructuring. He has extensive experience as a trial and appellate advocate, regularly appearing before the higher English courts, at all stages of proceedings. His English practice is diverse in subject-matter and often international in nature.
He is also an acknowledged specialist advocate in international arbitration, and acts as an expert on English law in civil litigation overseas.
Beyond his London practice, Ben also has significant experience as an advocate in complex offshore litigation (notably in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands).
Career
England and Wales (Call 1995; KC 2016); New York (1998); British Virgin Islands (2007).
Professional Memberships
Commercial Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, LCIA, CEDR Accredited Mediator.
Personal
Educated at Bedford School; Worcester College, Oxford (MA, BCL); Cornell (LLM).
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Ben Valentin KC is a talented silk who has amassed extensive experience handling complex cases of alleged fraud. His broad commercial practice also touches on a number of other areas including insolvency and professional negligence.
Ben Valentin KC of Fountain Court Chambers is frequently instructed in a wide range of challenging commercial disputes. He regularly handles cases heard in the Cayman Islands, the BVI and Bermuda. Valentin continues to appear for liquidators and directors in large-scale fraud litigation and on matters requiring banking and finance expertise.
Ben Valentin KC has undoubted expertise in banking cases as part of a wide-ranging international commercial arbitration and commercial dispute resolution practice, and has appeared in a number of leading cases for major financial clients on both the claimant and defendant sides. He is noted for his significant experience of acting in complex offshore litigation in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands in particular.
Ben Valentin KC handles an international arbitration practice that focuses on disputes arising in the insurance, finance, aviation and energy industries. He frequently acts on behalf of clients in the British Virgin Islands and East Asia in arbitrations governed by ICC rules.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is ridiculously user-friendly and an absolutely fabulous advocate. He is calm, measured, considered and strategically astute."
"Ben has a real combination of absolutely outstanding advocacy, obviously sharp intellect, and the ability to roll his sleeves up and be a real team player."
"Ben has excellent drafting skills and reads the room very well. He is very user-friendly and tailors how he works to the case and client."
"He is an absolutely fabulous advocate: calm, considered and strategically astute with a fabulous legal mind."
"Ben is incredibly charming, an effective advocate, affable, and always sounds like he is right."
"Ben is my go-to KC."
"Ben is a real favorite. He is a punchy advocate."
"Ben has excellent drafting skills, is very polite and reads the room very well. He tailors how he works very well depending on the case and the client."
"Ben has fantastic cross-examination techniques, is very approachable and is easy to work with – he really listens to the wider team."
"Ben is down to earth and commercially minded."
"Ben is able to assimilate all of the details and see the big picture in such a calm way to put the client at ease in tricky situations, and he is very responsive."
"Ben's too good for words. He provides well-thought-through, robust opinions that judges love."
"His ability to clarify matters and to analyse them from an English law perspective is so impressive. His written work and oral submissions are just outstanding."
"Ben is incredibly charming, an effective advocate and affable."
"Ben is my go-to KC."
"Ben is a real favourite. He is a punchy advocate."
"Ben is a fantastic barrister who is smooth, merciless in court and incredibly persuasive."
"Ben has excellent drafting skills, is very polite, and reads the room very well."
"Ben provides very good oral and written advocacy, and is both team-oriented and pragmatic."
"He is ridiculously user-friendly and an absolutely fabulous advocate. He is calm, measured, considered and strategically astute."
"Ben has a real combination of absolutely outstanding advocacy, obviously sharp intellect, and the ability to roll his sleeves up and be a real team player."
"Ben has excellent drafting skills and reads the room very well. He is very user-friendly and tailors how he works to the case and client."
"He is an absolutely fabulous advocate: calm, considered and strategically astute with a fabulous legal mind."
"Ben is incredibly charming, an effective advocate, affable, and always sounds like he is right."
"Ben is my go-to KC."
"Ben is a real favorite. He is a punchy advocate."
"Ben has excellent drafting skills, is very polite and reads the room very well. He tailors how he works very well depending on the case and the client."
"Ben has fantastic cross-examination techniques, is very approachable and is easy to work with – he really listens to the wider team."
"Ben is down to earth and commercially minded."
"Ben is able to assimilate all of the details and see the big picture in such a calm way to put the client at ease in tricky situations, and he is very responsive."
"Ben's too good for words. He provides well-thought-through, robust opinions that judges love."
"His ability to clarify matters and to analyse them from an English law perspective is so impressive. His written work and oral submissions are just outstanding."
"Ben is incredibly charming, an effective advocate and affable."
"Ben is my go-to KC."
"Ben is a real favourite. He is a punchy advocate."
"Ben is a fantastic barrister who is smooth, merciless in court and incredibly persuasive."
"Ben has excellent drafting skills, is very polite, and reads the room very well."
"Ben provides very good oral and written advocacy, and is both team-oriented and pragmatic."
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