Benjamin M. Stoll

Ben Stoll represents clients in a wide variety of complex civil litigation. In recent years, his practice has focused on representing companies in the insurance, biotechnology, and cryptocurrency industries in class actions and other high-stakes lawsuits.  Ben’s work focuses on cases that involve complicated economic and quantitative issues, such as antitrust lawsuits, ERISA and breach of fiduciary duty claims, and cryptocurrency tracing.

Ben has significant experience with all aspects of litigation from pretrial investigations, through motions practice and discovery, to class certification and trial.  Ben also has extensive appellate experience representing clients in front of numerous state and federal courts of appeal. He has represented corporations and individuals in a broad range of cases at both the trial and appellate levels and in both state and federal courts. He has litigated and advised clients on a broad range of legal issues, including contract disputes, fiducary duties, trade secrets, patent validity and infringement, intellectual property licensing, indemnification, shareholder disputes, and False Claims Act allegations. He has also represented clients facing government investigations and has helped clients successfully mediate and settle disputes without resorting to formal litigation.

Ben previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

• Defended life insurance company in multi-district class action litigation involving $300+ million ERISA and breach of fiduciary duty claims related to losses incurred by 401(a) and 403(b) retirement plans.
• Assisted prominent property and casualty insurance company in resolving coverage dispute over ~$60 million.
• Defended company in cryptocurrency industry against national class action lawsuit alleging sale of unregistered securities.
• Represented property and casualty insurance company in appeal of national class action alleged improper denial of coverage.
• Defended cryptocurrency information provided against antitrust class action alleging monopolization and violations of Commodity Exchange Act and Consumer Fraud Acts.
• Represented biotech company in $600+ million antitrust lawsuit alleging tying claims in the market for blood and blood products.
• Represented company in cryptocurrency industry against $100 million conversion and money laundering lawsuit.
• Defended large health system against $50+ million antitrust lawsuit alleging anticompetitive and monopolistic conduct.
• Helped technology government contractor resolve breach of contract and confidentiality dispute via mediation without needing to resort to formal litigation.
• Represented cryptocurrency company in compelling arbitration of numerous separate disputes improperly filed in federal and state courts.
• Represented pharmaceutical company in two-week jury trial involving contract dispute over the licensing of one of its key medical products
• Represented major technology company in connection with highly publicized FTC investigation and subsequent DOJ antitrust lawsuit over online search and search advertising.
• Defended biotech companies against allegations of misappropriation of intellectual property, unfair competition, and tortious interference related to the development of a new pharmaceutical product.
• Defended national telecommunications company in federal court and on appeal to the Ninth Circuit against allegations of violating the False Claims Act.
• Defended major HVAC company against multi-hundred-million-dollar wrongful death and personal injury lawsuit over an explosion at a hospital construction project.
• Mediated and settled patent and trade secret licensing dispute on behalf of a major pharmaceutical company against an academic institution.
• Defended journalist in criminal bench trial against allegations that she trespassed and engaged in rioting while covering a major national news story.
• Represented safety equipment company against product defect claims brought by the families of deceased and injured firefighters.
• Settled shareholder dispute on behalf of the majority owner of a forestry company seeking to buy out the minority investors.
• Represented injured protester in Section 1983 excessive force lawsuit against a local government and its police department.
• Helped international pharmaceutical company evaluate its licenses and patent rights in anticipation of the launch of a new pharmaceutical product.