Sophia Bompas

She leads and works with members of the restructuring and insolvency team, alongside colleagues across the firm’s specialist departments to provide technical, strategic and commercially driven legal advice.

Sophia advises individuals, companies, directors of financially distressed businesses, insolvency practitioners, creditors, and lenders on the full spectrum of transactional and contentious restructuring and insolvency matters. She provides practical, solution-focused guidance from the early stages of financial difficulty through to formal processes including liquidations, administrations, CVAs, restructuring plans, bankruptcies, and IVAs.

The team also has experience managing complex multi-jurisdictional cases, regularly working with restructuring and insolvency professionals across Edwin Coe’s international network, Ally Law.

Sophia is known for being accessible, responsive and pragmatic. Clients value the team’s collaborative approach, clear communication, and ability to simplify complex legal issues while delivering commercially effective solutions.

Sophia became a partner in April 2022, having joined the firm as a trainee in 2012.

Audience and work summary:

Bankruptcy:  Advising trustees in bankruptcy, creditors or bankrupts on all aspects of personal insolvency. Understanding the bankrupt estate and the beneficial ownership of assets.

Voluntary Arrangements: Advising the debtor, or the nominee/supervisor or creditors in challenging or defending applications to court; drafting and interpreting high value, multiple asset arrangements for both individuals and companies.

Administration:  Advising on out of court appointments by qualified floating charge holders, the company or its directors; also advising on applications to appoint administrators by creditors, and all other related parties. Transactional sales of businesses and/or assets as part of or following the appointment of administrators.

Liquidations:  Advising directors, creditors, and insolvency practitioners through all aspects of corporate liquidations, including solvent (MVL) and insolvent (CVL or compulsory) procedures. Providing guidance on asset realisation, creditor claims, and directors’ duties.

Investigations:  Acting for and against directors, administrators or liquidators in relation to director conduct. Acting for directors on disqualification proceedings. Advising office-holders on asset investigation and recoveries.