Avocats en Banking & Finance

Solène Delafond

Solène Delafond assists French and foreign companies, both listed and unlisted, as well as their shareholders or the management team, in complex strategic litigation, mainly in commercial, financial, or corporate matters. In particular, she is specialized in post-acquisition litigation and disputes related to governance crises. Solène Delafond regularly pleads before civil and commercial courts. She joined Hoche Avocats after having created her own law firm and after having worked for eight years with the business law firms Rossi Bordes & Associés, then Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier.

HOCHE AVOCATS

Son Yop Jang

Partner

Jipyong LLC

Sona Taghiyeva

Sona Taghiyeva is Partner in Dentons' Prague office. She focuses on corporate and business law and has broad expertise in energy and infrastructure, banking and finance, compliance, real estate law, construction, licensing and hospitality issues.

Dentons

Sonal Thakrar

Sonal Thakrar is a Partner in the Residential Property team. She is described as a ‘dynamite conveyancer and hugely energetic’. She provides advice on all aspects of UK residential property and secured lending to banks and her expertise focuses on purchasing or disposing of prime or super-prime residential property in Central London, often involving complex offshore structures and time sensitive lending requirements whilst navigating deal driven sensitivities. Sonal effortlessly navigates the regulatory and fiduciary requirements specific to the region when acting on multi-jurisdictional transactions. She also has strong connections throughout the UK and globally. Throughout her career, Sonal has built a dynamic and diverse client base ranging from overseas investors, UHNW individuals and their companies, and family offices to trust companies, investment companies, trading companies and banks. She is able to adapt effortlessly to cultural and time-based needs that a client may have in the course of a transaction and delivers on very high profile and high value transactions in prime and super prime Central London despite difficult market conditions. Sonal injects infectious drive and enthusiasm into aspects of her work, whilst leading teams of experts both internally and externally on a range of complex matters. Peers describe her as ‘very dynamic, very high-tempo and very client-focused’ as well as ‘commercial and pragmatic’. Sonal leads a team which, through their breadth of knowledge, understanding of their clients’ unique situations and their success in building close working relationships with all parties involved in transactions, has grown to become one of the largest dedicated residential property practices in London.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Song Shuang

Partner

Tian Yuan Law Firm

Sonia De la Fuente

Sonia De la Fuente is Counsel at OBERSON ABELS SA. She practices in the field of business law with a specialization in the areas of banking and finance law as well as sustainable finance.

OBERSON ABELS SA

Sonia Locantore

Partner

Lener & Partners

Sonia Melegou

Sonia Melegou is the head of our real estate practice.. With over 15 years' experience in the real estate practice advising international and domestic clients she has a solid track record on property transactions, such as acquisitions and disposals, commercial and residential lease agreements, and sale and lease back arrangements. She has also significant experience in the creation of in rem securities and the restructuring of collaterals, as well as in the due diligence of real estate portfolios. She has also worked with multinational clients active in the luxury goods business regarding trademark infringement matters and anti-counterfeiting strategies. Sonia also represents clients before the First Instance Court and the Court of Appeals, on disputes arising from real estate, leases, trademark infringement, breach of contract, recovery of debts and claims and tort. Sonia is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator and one of the first 50 mediators accredited by the Greek Ministry of Justice. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2000 and joined our firm in 2001 and she is admitted before the Supreme Court.

Zepos & Yannopoulos

Sonia Rogez

Of Counsel, Paris

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Sonia Saranti

Founder

Saranti and Partners Law Firm

Sonia Sun

Partner

Innovatus Law

Sonja Schwaighofer

Partner, Attorney at Law

Marxer Attorneys

Sony Hutahaean

Partner

Badranaya Partnership

Sonya Pauls

Clifford Chance

Soo Khim Keoy

Soo Khim Keoy is a seasoned litigator with over two decades of experience. He has represented listed companies, financial institutions and HNW individuals in complex commercial disputes. Soo Khim’s practice focuses on corporate/commercial litigation, shareholders/joint venture and M&A disputes, contentious insolvency proceedings, financial/banking litigation and property related disputes.

Clifford Chance

Sookmi Lee

Partner

Shin & Kim

Sophia Collis

Associate

Conyers

Sophia Collis

Associate

Conyers

Sophia Farmer

Sophia advises on both contentious and non-contentious insolvency matters focusing on maximising realisation. She specialises in litigation recovery work on behalf of Bank’s, Insolvency Practitioners and individuals and offers a tailored solution to achieve an early recovery of debts and the swift resolution of disputes. Sophia has a growing practice of personal insolvencies, acting on behalf of Trustees in Bankruptcy to realise assets, defend challenges to Trustees’ remuneration, obtain Possession and Sale Orders and Income Payment Orders, and advise on antecedent transactions. Sophia works with a number of local authorities’ to assist with the collection of debts either by using a fully funded bankruptcy service to recovery council tax arrears, national non-domestic rates and over-paid benefits or by placing charging orders over the property. Sophia is regularly instructed by individuals in respect of annulments, and defends applications in insolvency proceedings for the recovery of assets and transactions to defraud creditors. Sophia assists with all aspects of corporate insolvencies and has been instructed to appoint administrators by qualifying floating charge holders, disclaim leases on behalf of a liquidator, recover unpaid rent, pursue unpaid director loans, transactions at an undervalue and challenge preference payments. Sophia regularly carries out Security Reviews on behalf of HSBC bank and has been successful in making applications to the Court for a declaration to perfect security and rectify the companies charges register. Personal Insolvency and Litigation Instructed by Joint Trustees in Bankruptcy to recover UK property that vests in the bankruptcy estate but is registered to a dissolved Company in Belize, also providing advice in the respect of Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 proceedings (ongoing) Successfully defended an application to challenge the Trustees remuneration and obtain a Possession and Sale Application in respect of outstanding bankruptcy estate costs (2016) Currently acting on behalf of an individual to defend an application pursuant to section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (transaction to defraud creditors) in respect of an alleged “sham” legal charge. The matter is listed for a four day hearing in early 2018. (ongoing) Instructed to advise Joint Trustees in Bankruptcy in respect of a bankrupt with mental capacity issues and the appointment of a deputy via the Court of Protection (2016) Corporate Insolvency Assisting Liquidators with the investigations into the transfer of properties and issued an application pursuant to section 236 of the Insolvency Act to question the directors and to obtain company documents (2017) Pursuing a director for an unpaid director loan account for the sum of £330,000 and a preferential transaction claim pursuant to section 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (ongoing) Assisting Joint Liquidators recovery property transferred at an undervalue by the company directors and pursue misfeasance claims against the directors (ongoing) Assisting with the appointment of Administrators by number of companies, including a famous Swansea call centre and (2015) Securing and recovering a historical debt arising from a loan agreement between individuals and two companies in the sum of £1.4 million (2015) Sophia is currently assisting in an unfair prejudice petition on behalf of a minority shareholder relating to hotel projects located in central London with a minimum value of £25-30 million (ongoing). Public Sector Instructed to recover historical unpaid National Non-Domestic Rates from a company registered in Panama (ongoing).

Blake Morgan LLP

Sophia Howell-Evans

Sophia is a senior associate in the Corporate department in the Isle of Man with a broad and varied practice. Sophia has significant experience in corporate finance matters regularly advising on multi-million asset finance, domestic and cross-border security and debt restructuring to leading financial institutions and corporate borrowers. She also has a wide range of experience in general corporate and regulatory transactions, including advising on pensions, multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, voluntary liquidations and migrations. Her practice extends to trust law including advising both local and international clients on the establishment and restructuring of trusts and the use of trusts in corporate structures. Sophia’s clients include international financial institutions, corporate service providers, listed and private companies, high net worth individuals and onshore law firms.

Appleby

Sophia Kyrou

Associate

Hadjianastassiou, Ioannides LLC

Sophia Sena Berdie

Senior Associate

Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah

Sophia Thanou

Senior Associate

POTAMITISVEKRIS

Sophie Bronkart

Counsel

Elvinger Hoss Prussen