Chambers BAR awards 2010 Winner

Ben Valentin

Ben Valentin

Contact details:
3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.
Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911.
LDE 338 (Chancery Lane).
Email benvalentin@southsquare.com
Web www.southsquare.com
Professional career:
Called to the Bar of England and Wales, November 1995
Called to the Bar of the State of New York, February 1998
Called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, British Virgin Islands 2007
Education:
1989-1992 BA (Hons) Jurisprudence – Worcester College, Oxford
1992-1993 BCL – Worcester College, Oxford
1993-1994 LLM – Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York
Areas of practice:
Broad commercial practice with extensive experience of substantial and complex litigation. Principal practice areas are General Commercial Litigation, Banking and Finance, Corporate law, Civil Fraud, Commercial Arbitration, Corporate restructuring and insolvency, Civil Procedure (especially all aspects of disclosure and legal professional privilege).