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CHEAPSIDE
LONDON
EC2V 7WS
England
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Sophie White
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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.Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Employers
(Leading individuals)Well known for its industrial disputes work, Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP represents clients from a range of sectors including financial services, energy and healthcare. The team is led by Paul Fontes, who has a high level of tribunal litigation experience as well as expertise on matters including remuneration and incentive plans, business reorganisations and restructurings and executive-level terminations. Supporting him is collective actions specialist and head of the firm’s industrial relations practice, consultant Marc Meryon. Further key names to note in the team include TUPE issues expert Sophie White, the industrial relations-focussed Emma Humphreys and experienced litigator Hannah Mahon.
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Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Employment > Health and safety
- Public sector > Infrastructure (parliamentary)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Rail
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Public sector > Local government
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Real estate > Planning
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Industry focus > TMT
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital