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Sophia Hurst

Sophia Hurst

Position

Sophia has a broad commercial and chancery practice, encompassing a range of commercial litigation, fraud and asset recovery, banking and financial services, company, insolvency, and contentious trusts litigation.

Much of Sophia’s work has an international dimension; she is called to the bar in BVI and registered in DIFC and has a substantial practice before the courts of offshore jurisdictions and arbitral tribunals. She frequently advises on issues of jurisdiction and enforcement raised in cross-border disputes.

Sophia’s current and recent work includes acting in a complex cross-border banking fraud, and as part of the claimant team in Toucan Energy Holdings Ltd & Anr v Wirsol Energy Ltd & Ors [2021] EWHC 895 (Comm), a substantial Commercial Court dispute in the renewable energy sector.

Sophia is a contributing author to Gough on Company Charges and has delivered seminars and appeared on panels on a variety of topics, including at the ICC FraudNet 33rd conference, and the Private Client Global Elite Rising Leaders’ Forum 2021.

Mentions

London Bar

Banking and finance (including consumer credit)

Leading junior3
Sophia Hurst – Essex Court Chambers ‘Sophia is incredibly bright and is able to quickly digest huge volumes of information and complex law, and then distill this all down into a compelling and precisely drafted skeleton argument. Sophia is also a pleasure to work with and incredibly user-friendly from a client care perspective.’
London Bar

Commercial litigation

Leading junior5
Sophia Hurst – Essex Court Chambers ‘A star of the future – creative, perceptive and very good judgement. Excellent on paper. One to watch.’
London Bar

Fraud: civil

Leading junior3
Sophia Hurst – Essex Court Chambers 'Sophia is extremely persuasive and very client-oriented.'
London Bar

Insolvency

Leading junior5
Sophia Hurst – Essex Court Chambers ‘Sophia is an excellent junior with a superb eye for detail. Her written work is excellent and her instincts are great. She thinks outside the box and is able to present creative, workable ideas to problems.’