Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP has ‘highly knowledgeable lawyers with excellent business sense’. The firm acts for market participants across the entire commodities supply chain from producers through to trading companies and end users. Its work spans both soft and hard commodities, including oil and gas, chemicals, metals and mining, sugar, grain and coffee. The ’approachable, and knowledgeable’ George Mingay co-leads the practice with shipping and commodities specialist Mark Sachs, who has extensive experience in arbitrations in both London and Singapore. Mingay is on the legal panels of both the Sugar Association of London, and the Refined Sugar Association of London, and is a key adviser to the British Coffee Association. He also chairs the arbitration committee of the Minor Metals Trade Association. Commercial litigation partner Lisa Hillary is also a key member of the international trade, commodities, and shipping teams. The partners are backed up by a strong set of banking, finance and litigation associates.
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‘The team is always available, aware of the problems we are facing, even if the individual lawyer we are working with is unavailable there is always somebody who can take over the case, offer advice and guide us to getting the results we are looking for.’
‘Working with George Mingay has been a pleasure and an eye-opener. George always has good advice and, on many occasions, comes up with a unique way of dealing with a problem or approaching our counter-parties. George has also been an adviser to commodity trade arbitrations I have served on, his input has been invaluable and all awards he has crafted have NEVER been challenged by parties involved in our arbitrations.’
‘Very user-friendly and efficient. Team has wide relevant experience.’
‘George Mingay stands out and is very focused and commercially aware.’
‘The team is very professional and knowledgeable about commodities disputes. They provided great advice and submitted potential lines of action so that we could select the most suitable one for our case. The outcome was very satisfactory for our company. I strongly recommend them.’
‘George Mingay was absolutely fantastic. He also taught us legal options towards amicable resolutions that we had not seen before. I have almost two decades of experience in commodities and therefore working with Penningtons was an amazing learning experience.'
Key clients
- The Refined Sugar Association
- The Sugar Association of London
- British Coffee Association
- Agricultural Bank of China
- BACB (British Arab Commercial Bank)
- National Bank of Greece
- Bank ABC
- RJH Trading Limited
- Ayhan Sezer Yag Ve Gida Endustrisi Ticaret Ltd. Sti.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Practice head
George Mingay; Mark Sachs
Other key lawyers
Lisa Hillary; Julia Goroszeniuk