Senior associate

About

Sophie is a senior associate in our [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Dispute Resolution team, acting for corporates in complex, high-value contractual and professional negligence disputes. These often involve serious potential reputational impact across many sectors such as financial and legal services, construction and insurance. She aims to provide input that is clear and strategic, acknowledging each client’s wider business risks and goals.

Sophie is fluent in French, having grown up in Brussels (Belgium).

Experience

• High Court Chancery Division: Successful preliminary issue trial on point of contractual construction.
• Pre-litigation claim: Defence of pre-litigation construction claim worth c.£30 million for defective works at four schools brought directly against insurers (insolvent insured).
• High Court Chancery Division: Defence of complex multi-million pound litigation involving contested ownership of a UK hotel with overseas parties (settled post-mediation).
• Long-standing dispute: Defence of complex, long-standing dispute against defunct solicitors’ firm arising from overseas property collapse, leaving hundreds exposed to claims by overseas banks.
• Prominent insurer: Advice on potential breach of travel insurance policy after insured’s high-profile death overseas – Financial Ombudsman Service (“FOS”) adjudication in client’s favour.
• Claimant bank: Acting in a multimillion-pound action against solicitors and surveyor for negligent advice and overvaluation of a hotel.

Credentials

• Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2020)
• Admitted as a Chartered Legal Executive (CILEx): England & Wales (2019)
• Called to the Bar: England & Wales (2016)

Areas of expertise

• Commercial and business disputes
• Dispute resolution

Office

• Bristol

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