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Ben Friis-O'Toole

BCom LLB (Syd), LLM (Cantab)

Senior Associate

Dispute Resolution & Litigation, Restructuring & Insolvency, White Collar Crime & Investigation

Contact

bfriisotoole@abl.com.au

Tel: +61 2 9226 7240

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Fax: +61 2 9226 7120

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About Ben

Ben Friis-O’Toole is a senior associate in the firm’s dispute resolution & litigation and reconstruction & insolvency practice groups in Sydney. He acts for individuals and private and public companies in a range of contentious and non-contentious matters.

Before joining the firm in 2017, Ben was Associate to the Hon. Justice N Perram, Federal Court of Australia and a lawyer in the Disputes & Investigations and Restructuring & Insolvency teams at Allens, where he spent six months on secondment in the Regulatory Response team at a leading Australian trading bank.

Ben holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Law (Hons) from the University of Cambridge. He is admitted as a lawyer in New South Wales.

Practice focus

Ben’s practice focuses on:

dispute resolution and litigation;
reconstruction and insolvency;
regulatory investigations.

Experience

Since joining ABL, Ben has acted for individuals and private and public companies in a range of matters, including:

former directors of Dick Smith in litigation relating to directors’ duties;
the Administrators of the Arrium Group;
group members in a class action relating to investments in an unlisted property trust;
private companies in oppression proceedings brought by a minority shareholder;
an individual in criminal cartel proceedings;

the responsible entity of a listed special purpose real estate investment trust in proceedings relating to member voting rights;
a former director of Babcock & Brown companies in litigation relating to an investment in a US corporation;
a US-based individual in proceedings relating to obtaining evidence on commission;
payment-in-kind (PIK) noteholders in the Bis Industries restructure, effected under a scheme of arrangement.