BENJAMIN NAGIN represents clients in their most complex and hard-fought antitrust, class action and commercial litigation matters. Ben is co-head of the firm’s global Antitrust and Competition group. He serves as lead counsel in cutting-edge antitrust matters. His matters include high-profile disputes and investigations related to financial services, payment systems, technology, artificial intelligence, and agreements affecting labor. Ben is listed in the peer-reviewed Best Lawyers in America for Antitrust Law and Commercial Litigation and “Super Lawyers” for Antitrust Litigation. Ben has extensive trial experience in state and federal courts, including in the Southern District of New York, bankruptcy courts and the New York State Commercial Division. Most recently, Ben was named The American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week” for his leading role in the successful defense of Cantor Fitzgerald in an antitrust class action regarding forfeiture-for-competition provisions.
According to clients, Ben’s “strategic thinking, command of the law, attention to detail and professionalism are unparalleled. He is the lawyer you want and need when you are faced with a thorny dispute.” Another client has commented that Ben is “creative, savvy and practical” and “the lawyer you want in a dog fight.” According to clients in 2018, Ben is “quick to understand the commercial imperatives, always strategic in outlook” and has “an operating style that is pragmatic and easy to work with. If you have a complex commercial dispute, you want Ben on your side.” Clients with significant antitrust matters described Ben as knowing the “antitrust issues cold” and having “unparalleled strategic thinking and responsiveness.”
In his pro bono practice, Ben has been a leader in reversing wrongful death penalty convictions. In a case in Alabama, Ben served as lead counsel and obtained the reversal of a wrongful capital murder conviction and death penalty sentence. During the final appearance in the case, the Alabama State Court Judge stated to Ben and his team that “your legal analysis throughout this process has been infallible and your courtroom demeanor has been impeccable. . . . I’m sincerely humbled by your dedication to the goal of truth and justice.”