Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Sophie is an employment partner in the London office and co-heads the Eversheds Sutherland Financial Institutions Employment group. She is a highly experienced employment lawyer, who advises clients on complex transactional and contentious matters with a focus on financial services.

Sophie advises extensively on SMCR implementation, compliance and conduct rule breaches with linked regulatory investigations. She is skilled at guiding clients through regulatory investigations and advising on other regulatory employment matters at every stage of the employment life cycle and is one of the authors of the Employment Practitioner’s Guide to Financial Institutions: Key Aspects of the Regulatory Framework.

Sophie has significant expertise of leading the employment aspects of outsourcing projects. She regularly undertakes strategic TUPE negotiations (and wider global automatic transfer negotiations) on behalf of her clients and is able to explain any contentious automatic transfer issues in a clear and concise manner so that her clients can fully consider the options open to them.