Sohini Kar-Purkayastha

Sohini is a partner in our project development and finance practice. Sohini regularly advises project sponsors and developers, as well as lenders including export credit agencies, multi-lateral institutions and commercial banks in relation to large scale project development and financing transactions, including corporate/hybrid financings and restructurings. Sohini's expertise is in project documents, project finance documents and joint venture arrangements, focusing on the energy, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. With the energy transition, her practice has expanded to the new technologies driving the transition. In terms of jurisdiction, Sohini has a broad practice, working most recently in the Middle East, Turkey, India and Northern Europe. Sohini is a steering committee member of the UK delegation that forms the UK-India Infrastructure Finance Initiative (UKIIFB).

Sohini completed a client secondment to Koç Holding A.S., Turkey's largest industrial conglomerate in 2013-2014.

Sohini holds an LLB from the London School of Economics and a Postgraduate Diploma in World Trade Law from the Central European University. Qualified to practise in England, she speaks French, Bengali, and Hindi.

London School of Economics (LLB) 2006

Joined Clifford Chance London 2008

Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales 2010

Joined Clifford Chance Paris 2011

Counsel since May 2017