Costs - UK-wide
Band 2
What the Team is Known For
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP is a well-regarded firm with a growing costs offering. The team advises clients on cost estimates all the way through to cost recovery and assessment matters.
Strengths
The team at Penningtons Manches Cooper is adept at dealing with complex issues and technical costs issues.
Penningtons Manches Cooper has a broad range of experience across the team.
Penningtons Manches Cooper combines deep technical expertise in legal costs with a strong commercial mindset. They are highly responsive, meticulous in their analysis, and consistently deliver advice that is both procedurally robust and strategically useful.
Penningtons Manches Cooper is always hands-on and personable which makes dealing with sensitive issues over client care and costs that much easier.
Work Highlights
Penningtons Manches Cooper prepared the costs budget for 63 policyholders in a Commercial Court group action against NFU Mutual with respect to unpaid COVID-19 business interruption claims.
Notable practitioners
Andrew Jago is head of the costs team at Penningtons Manches Cooper and has more than 20 years' experience in costs law. He regularly handles the costs aspects of the firm's most significant and high-value litigation matters, including international arbitration matters.
Andrew Jago is on top of the detail. He is very competent and intelligent to deal with.
Andrew Jago is an exceptionally valued partner. He brings outstanding technical expertise in contentious costs together with a strong strategic and commercial perspective, which allows him to advise in a way that is directly aligned with the realities of complex litigation.
Andrew Jago is an excellent costs lawyer. He's pragmatic and technically skilled.
Andrew Jago is straight talking, professional, easy to work with and knowledgeable.
Steve Page has more than 30 years' experience in costs law. He is an expert in costs budgeting and monitoring work and has particular expertise in personal injury and clinical negligence matters, having helped set up Penningtons Manches Cooper's processes in relation to costs for this work.
Steve Page is highly experienced with excellent commercial awareness.
Steve Page brings a deep, practical understanding of contentious costs and combines this with a calm, solution-focused approach that is particularly valuable on complex or high-pressure matters.
