Simmons & Simmons

Digital Business

Sophie is a Partner in the Digital Business Group. Her clients are predominantly in the technology, telecoms, financial services and fintech industries and she advises them on a range of complex commercial and regulatory topics, including in relation to regulated outsourcings and data protection.

She has spent time on secondment with a number of major financial institutions and works very closely with a number of significant financial technology providers. Sophie regularly acts both on the customer-side as well as on the service provider-side. The deep knowledge this gives her of how clients in the technology, telecoms, financial services and fintech industries operate enables her to provide current, practical and effective advice.

As well as providing guidance on regulatory requirements in the outsourcing and operational resilience space, Sophie advises on crypto and blockchain issues, data issues and all types of commercial contracts in the IT and telecoms sectors. Sophie is the AI lead for the Financial Institutions Sector and also co-lead of the Buy, Build and Invest group which is a key pillar of Simmons Emerging Tech offering.