Experience

Hickman & Rose

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Partner

  • 1991 - Present

  Ben co-founded Hickman & Rose in 1991. Under his guidance the firm has developed one of the UK's foremost litigation specialists working in corporate and financial crime, serious and general crime, regulatory law, professional discipline, civil liberties, human rights and fraud.Ben has been involved in some of the most significant corporate criminal and regulatory cases of recent years. His recent work includes:- Representing senior individuals at BAT, Olympus, Deutsche Bank, HP/Autonomy and Macmillan Publishing.- Advising News Corporation in relation to criminal allegations arising from the so-called 'phone hacking' scandal.- Representing senior individuals in the long running SFO investigation into alleged corruption at the mining group ENRC. - Winning the acquittal at criminal trial of LIBOR trader Ryan Reich and discharge by the FCA’s Regulatory Decisions Committee of Pete Koutsogiannis.- Representing Surjan Singh, the UK-based Credit Suisse trader accused by the US Department of Justice of being part of a multi-million dollar fraud.- Representing the founder of a $13 billion global private equity fund accused of racketeering and fraud.- Advising High Net Worth clients on the implications for offshore wealth of provisions in the Criminal Finances Act. - Defending clients accused of corporate manslaughter (Ben is currently acting for ITH Pharma in relation to serious health and safety offences)- Providing advice to numerous high profile individuals in relation to Operation Yewtree and ‘Me Too’ type sex offence allegations.- Advising the businessman Hans Kristian Rausing in relation to various legal matters, including allegations arising from the death of his wife - Representing the interests of sportspeople, musicians, politicians and other high profile people facing what could prove reputationally ruinous legal actions.- Preventing the extradition of various high profile clients, including the Kyrgyz businessman Maxim Bakiev.