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Phillip D'Costa

Phillip D'Costa

Work Department

Commercial dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency, India.

Position

Phillip is a commercial disputes partner, head of the IT and IP disputes team and co-head of the India group at Penningtons Manches Cooper. He has over 20 years’ experience of complex, high value commercial litigation and arbitration, often with a cross-border element, and regularly advises on commercial, technology, financial services and civil fraud disputes, as well as enforcement and asset recovery.  

Phillip has acted on a number of board and shareholder, banking and IT disputes and represents a range of private sector clients. He assists businesses and individuals with insolvency and regulatory compliance issues, and has a particular interest in contentious and transactional work involving India, having acted on several English law disputes involving Indian parties. 

Career

Qualified 1997; partner Hill Dickinson 2008-2011, partner Davenport Lyons 2011-13, partner Penningtons Solicitors LLP 2013.

Languages

Hindi.

Memberships

London Solicitors Litigation Association, Society for Computers and the Law, Indian Maritime Association.

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