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Sophia Rolle-Kapousouzoglou

Sophia Rolle-Kapousouzoglou

Lennox Paton, Bahamas

Work Department

Insolvency & Restructuring Litigation & Dispute Resolution Corporate & Commercial Trust & Foundations

Position

Sophia is a partner in our commercial litigation department. She appears regularly as lead counsel before the Bahamian Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.

Sophia continues to receive growing recognition for her reputation in the field of insolvency litigation. Chambers Global comment ‘Sophia continues to enhance her already impressive disputes reputation. Sources describe her as “excellent,” “practical,” and “meticulous.” She is well versed in handling disputes relating to securities fraud, asset tracing and insolvency’. She impresses sources with her industrious approach to the work she takes on, with The Legal 500 Caribbean noting “Sophia Rolle-Kapousouzoglou does an excellent job; she is highly recommended for being extremely professional, efficient and experienced. Working with Sophia is like working with some of the top firms in London.”

Sophia represents clients in multi-jurisdictional matters and has acted in several prominent cross-border insolvency cases. She is also experienced in shareholder and company disputes and trust litigation.

Her overall practice areas include advising clients with respect to contractual disputes, property disputes, fraud and asset tracing, Norwich Pharmacal applications, applications for injunctions and other interlocutory relief.

Sophia has been recognised by Chambers Global 2023, The Legal 500 Caribbean 2023, Who’s Who Legal: Asset Recovery 2020, Who’s Who Legal: Litigation 2020, Global Restructuring Review’s ’40 Under 40’ and was featured in GRR’s ‘Women in Restructuring’ list in 2019.

She is regularly called on to speak at various international conferences, including INSOL, ABA, ABI, and the AIJA, and has contributed to numerous publications with respect to Bahamian law.

Career

Fellow of INSOL International, Class of 2015-2016 III Next Gen Class VI (2017)

Memberships

The Bahamas Bar Association The Honourable Society of Middle Temple INSOL International (Fellow) AIJA (Bahamas National Representative) III (International Insolvency Institute – NextGen) RISA (Bahamas) Founding Board Member IWIRC

Education

Post-Graduate Diploma in Law, City University, Inns of Court School of Law (2006) Bachelors Degree Law, LLB, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (2005) Bachelor’s Degree Psychology, York University, Toronto Canada (2002)

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