66 Wellington St W, Suite 4100, Toronto-Dominion Ctr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2005
Benjamin Bathgate is a leading corporate commercial litigator who has built an international reputation as a leading crypto fraud and asset tracing lawyer, with a far-reaching cross-border practice and network, including foreign lawyer contacts, investigators, local and international law enforcement contacts and forensic experts. His practice focuses on complex, high-stakes corporate and commercial litigation and providing his clients with trusted advice on pre-litigation investigations and emergency relief in the courts. Ben has significant experience in and regularly advises on matters relating to commercial fraud, injunctions, asset tracing and recovery, internal and government investigations, and transactional disputes. He has been lead counsel in numerous precedent-setting cases, including cross-border digital asset tracing and seizure proceedings. Ben successfully obtained the first reported Anton Piller order (civil search and seizure) on cryptocurrency in Canada, a case that was the feature story in Bloomberg Businessweek. He speaks and consults on cryptocurrency fraud and asset tracing as part of his cross-border practice, and has interviewed with leading publications including CoinDesk, CoinDesk TV, Canadian Lawyer, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Law, and Bloomberg Business.
