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EU-UK Spotlight: Renewables, trade, and the global supply chain
Benjamin Andrew Fleming
Partner Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Ben Fleming is an experienced and skilled litigator with deep experience handling clients’ most high-profile and sensitive challenges. He handles complex commercial disputes across a broad array of industries, and regularly advises on and litigates disputes at the C-suite and board levels.
Ben works with global businesses to assess and minimize litigation risk and, if litigation is inevitable, win (in court or elsewhere). A highly skilled advocate, he represents clients across the country, working on behalf of insurers, financial institutions, retailers, educational institutions, and beyond. He serves as lead counsel in class actions and other cases involving supply chain challenges, human rights issues, RICO and related commercial disputes, and First Amendment issues. He regularly handles matters involving conflicts between U.S. and foreign law, including in discovery, judgment enforcement, and jurisdiction over multinational businesses.
He has handled high-profile pro bono litigation for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and others. Before law school, Ben worked as a journalist.
Representative experience
Leading the defense of a major retailer in high-profile class action litigation involving alleged trafficking by a former executive.
Successfully representing numerous major food and beverage concerns in litigation challenging labeling and related issues, including multiple dismissals on the pleadings.
Successfully representing major entertainment companies in litigation (complete win at summary judgment) involving alleged idea theft in connection with the film Iron Man 3.
Successfully representing a major European bank in investigations and the multidistrict civil litigation relating to LIBOR in federal court in New York, leading to a complete win on summary judgment.
Representing major European banks in class actions on the Australian BBSW (pleadings dismissal), SSA bonds (pleadings dismissal, affirmed), London gold fixing (successful settlement), and SIBOR.
Representing a transportation company in trade secret litigation involving former employees.
Defending an investigative journalist in a high-profile subpoena, resulting in a landmark favorable ruling from the N.Y. Court of Appeals.
Successfully representing, at trial and on appeal, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in an action challenging exclusionary zoning ordinance.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., New York University School of Law, cum laude, 2011
- M.S., Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, 2007
- B.A., Williams College, 2004
Bar admissions and qualifications
- New York
Court admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Recognition
News
Press releases
06 February 2024
Press releases
18 October 2023