Selected Experience
Ben has acted as counsel, arbitrator, and tribunal secretary in more than 50 commercial and investment disputes under all major arbitral rules, including ICSID, ICSID (AF), UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, ICDR, SIAC, SCC, CRCICA, Swiss Rules, and others.
Investor-State Arbitration
Representing investors and states in treaty-based disputes involving expropriation, fair and equitable treatment, and other investment protections.
Nomad Bauxite & Almas Mynbayev v Republic of Guinea
ICSID Case ARB/25/48
Dr. Maya Dangelas and Tan Tao Investment & Industry Corporation v The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
PCA Case 2023-06
Almaden Minerals Ltd. and Almadex Minerals Ltd. v. United Mexican States
ICSID Case No. ARB/24/23
Silver Bull Resources, Inc v United Mexican States
ICSID Case ARB/23/24
Yaw Chee Siew v Republic of Poland
ICC Case No. 28103/HBH
Nachingwea U.K. Limited, Ntaka Nickel Holdings Limited and Nachingwea Nickel Limited v Tanzania
ICSID Case ARB/20/38
Ampal-American Israel Corporation and others v Arab Republic of Egypt
ICSID Case ARB/12/11
Maiman and others v Arab Republic of Egypt
PCA Case 2012-12
Numerous other matters at the pre-arbitration stage or in an advisory capacity.
Commercial Arbitration
Handling complex commercial disputes across industries including energy, infrastructure, and corporate transactions.
TricorBraun v. Cristalerias Toro SpA
ICDR Case No. 01-24-0008-6176
Blenheim Capital Partners Limited v Lockheed Martin Overseas Corporation
ICC 26833/AB/AZO/SP/ETT
Inter Rao UES v Empresa Pública Estratégica Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador CELEC EP
CAM Santiago 3568-18
EGI-EMG LP v Mediterranean Gas Pipeline Company and Hussein Salem
ICC Case 23480/AYZ
Total E&P Algérie SAS and Repsol Exploración Argelia SA v Sonatrach SPA
ICC Case 21969/DDA
Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company v East Mediterranean Gas SAE
CRCICA Case 829/2012
East Mediterranean Gas SAE v Israel Electric Corporation, Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company
ICC Case 18215/GZ/MHM
East Mediterranean Gas SAE v Israel Electric Corporation
ICC Case 18189/GZ
Numerous other matters in arbitration, at the pre-arbitration stage, or in an advisory capacity.
Advisory Work
Beyond dispute resolution, Ben provides strategic counsel on investment structuring, public international law, and human rights matters.
Advising clients on investment structuring to ensure treaty protection, access to arbitration through properly structured contractual arbitration clauses, and post-award issues of enforcement and collection
Advising clients on various issues of public international law, including human rights law, State succession, law of the sea, State attribution, treaty interpretation, and general public international law
Advising the International Commission of Jurists on matters of judicial procedure and international humanitarian law
Advising the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission on issues of international humanitarian law
Advising the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on matters of enforced disappearances
Advising the ABA Center for Human Rights on the right to peaceful assembly
Advising the Claims Conference Program for Former Slave and Forced Laborers on reparations owed to Holocaust victims