Hickman & Rose

Senior Founding Partner. Business Crime.

Ben Rose is one of the most respected defence lawyers in the country. For over 30 years he has successfully represented individuals and corporations in the most serious financial, regulatory and general criminal matters. He has established himself a ‘go to’ solicitor for high profile individuals seeking discreet resolution of sensitive legal problems and is an expert on regulatory and civil matters as they impact financial wrongdoing.

A specialist in both financial and general criminal law, Ben offers a complete defence service. He has acted for some of the world’s largest companies in corporate criminal matters; and has represented company CEOs, directors and general counsel in some of the most significant White Collar criminal and regulatory cases worldwide.

He has also carved a formidable reputation acting for HNW and well-known individuals such politicians, celebrities, entrepreneurs and their families with those sensitive legal concerns which often constitute the biggest crises of their lives.

As well as criminal legal matters, Ben provides expert advice in relation to money laundering and proceeds of crime issues such as Unexplained Wealth Orders and Account Freezing Orders. He is often involved in cross-jurisdictional matters and is expert in setting overall legal strategy and coordinating teams of lawyers working across the globe.

Ben’s wealth of experience enables him to formulate strategies which are most likely to secure the best outcome. He has achieved great success for his clients during the investigation and before charge and has been ensured that even the most sensational cases remain out of the public domain.

Calm, organised and sympathetic, Ben forges powerful working relationships with his clients. He takes care to ensure that he concisely communicates what can often be complex legal strategies in way that that is clearly comprehensible to his clients, who are often extremely time-pressured people.

Trained Fisher Meredith. Qualified 1990. Co-founded Hickman and Rose 1991.

Ben has served as co-chairman of the criminal law section of the IBA and is a member of the Law Society’s money laundering panel and the Times Law Panel

Ben regularly writes and lectures on criminal law issues. He has lectured to the Judicial Studies Board, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, Transparency International, the Annual Justice Conference and addressed the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Ceremony.

LLB (Hons) Warwick University. Admitted 1990. Co-founded Hickman & Rose 1991.

Outside work Ben is the co-founder of Grit, (www.grit.org.uk), a charity dedicated to improving disadvantaged young people's life chances; and Amassa, a well-being retreat centre (www.amassaplace.com). Ben was a British heavyweight kickboxing champion in 2000 and 2002.