Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP runs a broad caseload, spread across banking and finance, digital asset, cybercrime, shareholder, contractual, restructuring, insolvency and product liability disputes. Clare Arthurs fronts the team, which has recently litigated in jurisdictions as diverse as India and South America.
Testimonials
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‘Excellent team, very client friendly and hands on’
‘Really strong team, in particular on cross-border disputes.’
‘Richard Marshall - takes no prisoners, and gets solutions/outcomes for clients.’
‘The PMC team is a highly effective outfit. It acts in high profile, high value cases, often involving very serious allegations of dishonesty and corporate wrongdoing.'
‘Richard Marshall is an exceptional partner. He has a high degree of commercial acumen which makes him a great legal strategist.
‘A solid choice for any party litigating civil fraud matters. The team has unsurpassed legal experience of the germane to the novelty of digital assets.’
‘The amount of work that the associates get through is, even for a commercial firm, truly impressive.’
Key clients
- Ortiz-Patino
- Podhurst Orseck PA (on behalf of 43 individuals)
- Arani and others
- Various individuals and corporate entities (SKAT)
- Group Action – re Parc Vacances
- Police Federation
- Plustech Limited
- Nicholas Martin
- John Crocker
- The Consumers Association – Which?
Work highlights
- Acting on a claim relates to a profit sharing agreement arising from the sale of a world renowned golf course. The client is seeking to enforce his rights for payments due on the sale of the assets.
- Instructed by Floridian law firm, Podhurst Orseck PA, to represent individuals that survived the highly publicised Chapecoense plane crash and the families and estates of those that did not, in resisting and seeking the quashing of an interim anti-suit injunction obtained in England by broker Aon, and re-insurer Tokio Marine Kiln.
- Acted for the Consumers’ Association (Which?) on both their Court of Appeal and Supreme Court interventions in the APP fraud case of Philipp v Barclays Bank UK Plc which involves an important point of banking law relating to the scope of a banker’s duty.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Clare Arthurs