Sophie Lalor-Harbord

Partner Sophie is a commercial litigation partner with over 16 years of experience handling contentious matters for major corporate clients and high net worth individuals across a range of sectors. Sophie has significant expertise in: Banking disputes including issues of anti-money laundering, the Quincecare duty, cum-ex and cum-cum trading disputes and cases involving non-performing loans; Shareholder and director disputes – including unfair prejudice petitions, disputes involving put and call provisions, good and bad leaver clauses and JV agreements; Fraud claims and investigations including those involving asset tracing, freezing injunctions, gagging orders and applications for Norwich Pharmacal relief; and Media disputes including defamation, breach of confidence and misuse of private information matters. In addition to her extensive litigation experience, Sophie has acted for clients in arbitration proceedings under various rules including SIAC, ICC and LCIA. Sophie’s recent work includes: Acting for a property developer in a breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty claim, involving complex issues of asset tracing across several jurisdictions Acting for the shareholders of an oil company in multi-jurisdictional litigation against a Russian state-owned company Acting for an Irish bank in relation to the tracing of assets worldwide in connection with conspiracy proceedings Acting for a French consortium in a claim for fraudulent misrepresentation against an Indian manufacturing company Advising on subject access requests under the GDPR · Stewarts Law LLP