She specialises in special situations, complex cross-border structuring, operating and financing international corporate groups, governance and mentoring. She has a particular focus on U.S.-based investors, working closely with these investors and their US-based advisors who need an on-the-ground proxy to help them push forward the investors’ UK/EU investments and global footprint expansion plans and involve the right local experts at the right time.
She is often engaged by private capital investors on ‘first of their kind’ investments in a diverse range of sectors and geographies and/or where the investors have hit a roadblock and are in need of a quarterback. Sophie is known for putting in place innovative and complex group structures and tailor-made governance and finance arrangements that are bespoke for and reflect the ethos of the investor group in question. Particular strengths of Sophie are her knowledge and understanding of fund structures, operations and preferred jurisdictions plus the types of tax and regulatory matters that are typically relevant to private capital investment groups.
She also has extensive financial restructuring experience, having acted on many substantive and high-profile financial restructurings, including the historic restructuring of the Icelandic banks, and has a strong interest in, and co-leads our Family Office group, seeking to help single and multi-family offices with setting up investment firms and platforms, and making discrete, complex and high value private capital investments in the UK and EU private sectors.
