Experience
Sophie’s recent work includes:
- Acting for various companies under a trust structure on a claim involving allegations of fraud, anti-suit injunctions, jurisdiction challenges, world-wide freezing injunctions and contempt of court.
- Galapagos Bidco SARL v Kebekus & Ors [2023] EWHC 1931 – acting for an insolvency administrator in multi-jurisdictional proceedings concerning the restructuring of debts of €1.2 billion owed by a group of companies manufacturing heat exchangers and cooling systems.
- Otto & Ors v Inner Mongolia Happy Lamb Catering Management Company Ltd & Ors [2024] EWHC 497 – acting for the respondents to an unfair prejudice petition claim, including on a successful application to strike out parts of the claim.
- Aon UK Ltd and others v Howden Group Holdings Ltd and othersKB-2023-004487 – acting for a defendant in this claim involving an application to challenge the jurisdiction of the English court.
- Acting for a major energy company in relation to a dispute with a worldwide bank.
- Acting for a multinational travel business in relation to breach of confidence and breach of contract claims.
- Acting for a foreign bank in relation to the enforcement of a multimillion pound non-performing loan.
Expertise
Sophie has significant expertise in:
- Banking disputes including issues of anti-money laundering, the Quincecare duty, cum-ex and cum-cum trading disputes and cases involving non-performing loans;
- Shareholder and director disputes – including unfair prejudice petitions, disputes involving put and call provisions, good and bad leaver clauses and JV agreements;
- Fraud claims and investigations including those involving asset tracing, freezing injunctions, gagging orders and applications for Norwich Pharmacal relief; and
- Media disputes including defamation, breach of confidence and misuse of private information matters.
In addition to her extensive litigation experience, Sophie has acted for clients in arbitration proceedings under various rules including SIAC, ICC and LCIA.
Career
Before joining Stewarts, Sophie spent seven years at Olswang LLP. Sophie has also spent time working in Singapore on various arbitrations and in-house at global technology company IBM.
Sophie is part of a cross-firm team organising London International Disputes Week.
Publications
Dealing with subject access requests under the GDPR – Lexology
Personal
Hobbies are a pipe dream at the moment – Sophie spends all her free time trying to keep up with and entertain her three children but she wouldn’t change it for the world!
"Very organised and really excellent at running complex litigation, coordinating input from many different people, and ensuring that the client is properly advised as appropriate, whatever the time pressure she is working under. Good at making strategic decisions in light of complex information."
Legal 500
"A partner in the prime of her talents. She is superb at the very middle of a case, managing the team while keeping her eye firmly fixed on her client's commercial objective."
Legal 500
"Very well-organised, always on top of things, commercially minded and resolution-oriented."
Legal 500
