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Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Offices
125 WOOD STREET
LONDON
EC2V 7AW
England
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John Doherty
Work Department
Commercial dispute resolution.
Position
John is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution department, specialising in product liability, EU competition, regulation and judicial review. Important cases John has advised on include a challenge to the constitutionality of an EU Directive concerning tobacco advertising, which was litigated successfully before the House of Lords and European Court of Justice. Advice and assistance is regularly provided to multinational consumer products manufacturers and distributors on product safety issues (including recalls) and compliance with product labelling and advertising requirements. He has particular experience working with companies from the Americas region.
Career
Trained Lovells; qualified 1998; partner in 2008, Penningtons Manches.
Languages
Spanish
Memberships
Human Rights Lawyers Association; Administrative Law Bar Association.
Education
Finchley Catholic High School, (1981-87); Middlesex University, LLB (Hons) (1995); College of Law, London, Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (1996).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Product liability: defendant
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP‘s impressive client list reflects the team’s experience in the tobacco, retail and technology sectors as well as in the pharmaceutical and medical devices industry. The practice, which is led by John Doherty, handles international product liability cases, regulatory matters and dispute prevention and strategy. Senior associate Tim Wright, who is based in Basingtoke, also has clinical negligence expertise.
London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP is experienced in specialist areas such as group action litigation, banking and finance disputes, defamation and reputation management, cybercrime, product liability, and IP and IT matters. Rustam Dubash heads the department, Richard Marshall leads the international litigation and arbitration team, and David Niven heads the professional negligence and group actions practice. Also highly regarded are Philip D’Costa, Alex Fox, Dan Hyde, John Doherty, Donald Lambert and Noel McMichael. David O’Brien was made partner.
Lawyer Rankings
- Product liability: defendant - London > Insurance
- Commercial litigation - London > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: smaller deals, up to £50m
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commodities disputes
- Private client > Court of protection
- Human resources > Employment: employees/unions
- Human resources > Employment: senior executives
- Private client > Family
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Risk advisory > Reputation management
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Trade finance
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Real estate > Commercial property: hotels and leisure
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Brand management
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Contruction: non-contentious
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Human resources > Employment: employers
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Social housing: local authorities and registered providers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Human resources > Immigration
- Transport > Travel