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Ben Woolgar

Ben Woolgar

Position

Ben specialises in heavy-duty, high profile commercial litigation and arbitration. His broad commercial practice spans civil fraud, energy, banking, mining and insurance work, including jurisdiction challenges and injunctions.

He is recommended as a “Rising Star” in Legal 500 for Commercial Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration, Civil Fraud, Banking and Finance and Energy, and is also recommended in Chambers & Partners for Commercial Dispute Resolution and Civil Fraud. He has appeared in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases list in all but one of the years he has been in practice.

Career

Call: 2014

Education

2013-2014: BPTC, City Law School (Outstanding)

2012-2013: GDL, City Law School (Distinction, 4th in year)

2009-2012: MA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford (Balliol College) (First Class, Gibbs Prize for Best Thesis in Politics)

Mentions

London Bar

Banking and finance (including consumer credit)

Leading junior2
Ben Woolgar – Brick Court Chambers ‘Has an exceptional ability to take on and turn around massive amounts of work, and to produce excellent documents with real legal flair. A great lawyer who is a pleasure to work with.’
The English Bar Offshore

Commercial disputes

Leading junior4
Ben Woolgar – Brick Court Chambers ‘Ben is incredibly bright and hardworking. He is beyond his year of call in terms of his experience and advocacy ability, and a go-to for tough cases where you need the best counsel team you can get.’
London Bar

Commercial litigation

Leading junior5
Ben Woolgar – Brick Court Chambers ‘Ben is a future star of the bar and he is already very much in demand. He has a special ability to spot winning points and to see an opponent's weaknesses.'
London Bar

Energy

Leading junior4
Ben Woolgar – Brick Court Chambers ‘A razor-sharp junior.’
London Bar

Fraud: civil

Leading junior3
Ben Woolgar – Brick Court Chambers ‘He has the ability to get to the essence of a case and to find points which the judges will find of interest.’