Sophia is an associate in the Commercial Litigation department.
Sophia acts on a range of commercial litigation with an emphasis on insolvency and restructuring. Her experience includes contentious and transactional insolvency matters, advising insolvency practitioners, creditors, banks, distressed companies and individuals in both corporate and personal insolvencies.
Sophia is a member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association and attends R3 courses and seminars. Sophia is captain of the Edwin Coe netball team and contributes regularly to the firm’s litigation blogs.
Sophia joined Edwin Coe as a trainee in September 2012 and qualified in September 2014. During her training contract, Sophia completed seats in property, commercial litigation (including group action litigation), corporate & commercial, and restructuring & insolvency.
In 2012, Sophia completed the Legal Practice Course at BPP London gaining a distinction. Following graduation, Sophia worked in the litigation group at the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, before joining the business development group at Slaughter and May.
- Advising a former administrator and supervisor of Miss Sixty UK Limited in relation to disciplinary proceedings instigated by the ACCA and in a separate claim made by the liquidator.
- Horton v Henry [2014] EWHC 4209 (Ch) – Advising the trustee in bankruptcy on his application for an income payments order in respect of the former bankrupt’s uncrystallised pension policies. Also advising the trustee in bankruptcy on his appeal of the High Court decision to the Court of Appeal, the judgment for which was handed down on 7 October 2016. Please click here to see a copy of the Court of Appeal judgment.
- Advising the former chief executive of a large construction company on his bankruptcy and post-bankruptcy obligations to the trustee in bankruptcy.
This team is quite rightly recognised as one of the outstanding personal insolvency practices in the market.
Chambers UK 2013
Expertise
Administrations and Receiverships
Bankruptcies and Liquidations
Civil Fraud
Confiscation and Restraint Proceedings
Director Disqualification Proceedings
Individual and Company Voluntary Arrangements
LPA Receiverships
Restructuring Processes
Credentials
Member of the Law Society
Member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association
Sophia's Blogs
Blog - 01/11/2018
HMRC: The rise and fall of creditor status
Restructuring & Insolvency
Blog - 27/09/2018
CVAs – considerations for retail landlords
Property
Blog - 15/08/2018
A cautionary tale of conflicted creditors
Restructuring & Insolvency
Blog - 13/03/2018
Directors, misappropriation and limitation: t...
Restructuring & Insolvency
