Benjamin D. Baker
About
Ben is an associate of the firm, practicing primarily in its Class Action and Complex Litigation Group. Ben represents investors and shareholders in shareholder derivative actions, class actions, and corporate governance litigation, with a focus on breaches of fiduciary duty, excessive compensation practices, and corporate waste. He also represents clients in consumer fraud and complex commercial matters.
Ben has litigated and successfully resolved numerous shareholder derivative actions and has played a key role in cases that conferred substantial benefits upon public companies and their 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 was selected for inclusion in the 2026 and 2027 editions of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs, recognized as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers from 2022 through 2026, and named one of New York’s Top 40 Under 40 by National Trial Lawyers in 2024. He was also a panelist and speaker on corporate governance litigation at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility’s 2025 Spring Conference, Strategies for Corporate Engagement in the Current Moment.
Ben graduated from Northeastern University in 2012 and received his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2018. While in law school, he was competitively selected to serve as a clinical law student with the Innocence Project and interned with the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General. Before 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.