Ben is a Delaware native and an attorney in the firm’s Wilmington office. He focuses his practice on representing investors, consumers, and stakeholders who have been damaged by a company’s directors and/or wrongful business practices.

Ben has assisted with prosecuting the following matters, among others:

• Marchand v. Barnhill, Del. Ch. C.A. No. 2017-0586-NAC, a derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery against senior officers and directors of Blue Bell Creameries USA Inc., seeking to recover the significant economic damages sustained by the Company and its stockholders resulting from the Listeria contamination of the Company’s production facilities in 2015.
• Piteira v. Kerns, Del. Ch. C.A. No. 2024-0390-MTZ, a class action brought on behalf of limited partners of CDK Fund I, LP in the Delaware Court of Chancery, asserting that a purported hedge fund formed by Defendant Cody Kerns solicited limited partner investments and operated the fund based on false representations and secret self- dealing, resulting in massive losses to the limited partners and unjust personal gains to Cody Kerns and his co-conspirators.

Ben received his law degree from Regent University School of Law, where he competed in mock trial, alternative dispute resolution, and patent prosecution competitions. While still pursuing his law degree, Ben served as a short-term clerk for the North Carolina Business Court, North Carolina Chamber, and the United States Court of Appeals for Fourth Circuit. He is licensed to practice law in Delaware and Maryland.

Before law school, Ben studied Mathematics, Economics, and Computer Science at the University of Delaware. During this time, he researched topics in Machine Learning and Post-Quantum Cryptography, and honed his foreign language skills in Japanese, German, and Spanish.

In his spare time, Ben enjoys traveling, exercising, meeting new people, and learning new things.