Benjamin T. Jones

• Acting for a confidential client in matters involving the construction of a large semiconductor facility in Central Texas.
• Acting for a nuclear decommissioning services provider in connection with the decommissioning of a nuclear energy facility in the United States.
• Acting for a consortium in ICC arbitration involving the construction of a LNG terminal in Europe.
• Acting for a power generation company in a multi-billion dollar dispute against its EPC contractor involving a 467-megawatt gas-fired combined-cycle power plant.
• Acting for a petrochemical joint venture in connection with a dispute against its earthworks site contractor.
• Acting for a Korean distributor in a commercial dispute against its upstream supplier, in which Ben cross-examined a witness in Korean.
• Acting for the Sultanate of Oman in defending against investment claims by a Turkish construction company.
• Acting for a leading private equity fund in parallel ICC arbitrations in a post-purchase M&A dispute against the sellers of shares in a Latin American technology company.
• Acting for a leading Middle Eastern energy company in parallel PCA-administered arbitration against a national energy company for a total non-performance of a multi-billion dollar gas supply and purchase contract.
• Acting for a leading energy company in its resubmitted investment claim against the Venezuelan government.
• Acting for ConocoPhillips in parallel ICSID and ICC arbitrations arising from the expropriation of major infrastructure projects in Venezuela, which resulted in multi-billion dollar awards.

Benjamin Jones (Ben) focuses his practice on resolving complex business disputes in the construction, energy, technology, and private equity industries. Ben is ranked Band 2 in Chambers for Construction: International Disputes, where clients note he is "both hard-working and knowledgeable." He has represented owners, sponsors and contractors in disputes arising from dozens of infrastructure projects throughout the United States and internationally.

Ben represents clients in disputes involving a wide range of infrastructure projects, including wind, solar, and battery energy storage system projects, power plants, refineries, FPSOs, LNG facilities, data centers, semiconductor manufacturing facilities, and commercial buildings.   

Ben also represents clients in the energy and private equity industries in the resolution of complex business disputes involving Purchase & Sale Agreements, Credit Agreements, Asset Management Agreements, Power Purchase Agreements and LLC Agreements.  In addition to formal dispute resolution, Ben dedicates a significant portion of his practice to pre-dispute counseling.   

Ben also regularly represents clients in foreign litigation proceedings.  Recently, Ben was part of a team that represented Refineria de Cartagena (Reficar) in defending against multi-jurisdictional restructuring proceedings brought by an award debtor to extinguish Reficar's nearly $1.3 billion arbitration award, and Ben played a key role in securing courtroom victories that resulting in Reficar obtaining a package worth approximately $900 million.   Ben also represented one of the world's largest energy companies in successfully defending against dozens of environmental lawsuits filed in Indonesian courts.    

Throughout the course of his career, Ben has represented energy-sector clients in dozens of international commercial arbitrations, many of which have involved claims in excess of $1 billion.  Ben has been involved in securing landmark victories for his clients, including multi-billion dollar wins for ConocoPhillips in its long-running disputes against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its state-owned oil company PDVSA.   

Ben brings an industry perspective to his practice gained through a secondment to a major multinational company in Singapore early in his career, which involved managing a complex docket of litigation matters throughout South and Southeast Asia and southern Africa. 

Ben has been recognized in the 2024 edition of The Legal 500 United States for construction, and in 2023 was selected by the Daily Journal as a Top 40 Under 40 Lawyer and by the Recorder as a \"Lawyer on the Fast Track.\"  Ben was previously selected as a \"Rising Star\" by Super Lawyers in 2020 and 2022.