Ben is Chair of the Global Disputes Practices Groups and Co-Chair of Clyde &Co’s Global Arbitration Group. He focuses primarily on International Arbitration.

Ben has 25 years of dispute resolution experience, predominantly in international arbitration including at the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, PCA, and UNCITRAL.

The Legal 500 has described Ben as “excellent” and “extremely efficient and hardworking.” Ben Knowles “takes a great deal of trouble to gain the confidence of the clients” and “I have first-hand experience of him as a litigator and he is utterly superb and a no-nonsense fighter.”

Ben has worked closely with a number of disputes funders developing the firm’s strategy and models in relation to funded and contingent work.

A client recommended Knowles ‘unreservedly’ and described him as ‘both a very professional, and unusually, a very practical arbitration lawyer who knows his way around the system.” – Global Arbitration Review, GAR 100 2015