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Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
1 WOOD STREET
CHEAPSIDE
LONDON
EC2V 7WS
England

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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.

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London > Employment > Employers

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Sophie White Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

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.