Benjamin D. Baker

Ben is an associate of the firm, working primarily in the firm’s Class Action and Complex Litigation Group. He represents the interests of investors, consumers, and others in the areas of shareholder rights, consumer fraud, and complex commercial matters. Selected for inclusion in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Plaintiffs,as a Rising Star in Super Lawyers from 2022 to 2025 and as one of New York’s Top 40 Under 40 by National Trial Lawyers in 2024, Ben has played a key role in numerous actions where substantial benefits were conferred upon public companies and shareholders, including Solak v. Mountain Crest Capital LLC, C.A. No. 2023-0469-BWD (Del. Ch. 2025) ($1.05 million class action settlement); Solak v. Huff, C.A. No. 2022-0400-LWW (Del. Ch. 2023) ($8 million derivative settlement); Schumacher v. Loscalzo, C.A. No. 2022-0059-LWW (Del. Ch. 2023) ($7.9 million derivative settlement); Solak v. Mates, Index No. 652377/2022 (N.Y. Sup. 2023) ($5.9 million derivative settlement); Solak v. Starr, C.A. No. 2020-0674-KSJM (Del. Ch. 2022) ($13 million derivative settlement); Solak v. Rochford, No. 19-cv-00410-MMD-CSD (D. Nev. 2022) (settlement after surviving two motions to dismiss); Dos Ramos v. Lynch, C.A. No. 2020-0237-LWW (Del. Ch. 2021) ($5 million derivative settlement); and Solak v. Sato, C.A. No. 2020-0775-JTL (Del. Ch. 2021) ($21.3 million derivative settlement). Ben has litigated and successfully resolved numerous shareholder derivative actions involving corporate governance issues, excessive compensation practices, corporate waste, and breaches of fiduciary duties. Ben was a panelist and speaker on corporate governance litigation at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility’s 2025 Spring Conference on Strategies for Corporate Engagement in the Current Moment.

Ben graduated from Northeastern University in 2012 and received his JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2018. While in law school, he was competitively selected to be a clinical law student for the Innocence Project and interned for the Environmental Protection Bureau at the New York State Office of the Attorney General. Prior to joining the firm, Ben worked at an AmLaw 50 firm and at a New York City boutique law firm that handled a broad range of civil and commercial litigation matters, including complex tort actions.

Ben is admitted to practice law in New York.