Practice Areas
Sophie Holcombe has a commercial chancery practice, with a particular focus on contentious domestic and offshore trusts and civil fraud. Sophie’s work is often multi-jurisdictional, involving issues of private international law.
Recently, Sophie acted on behalf of a Georgian billionaire in a trusts dispute against Credit Suisse for losses arising from fraudulent mismanagement of an investment portfolio worth over USD 1 billion. Claims have been successful in Singapore and Bermuda (Ivanishvili v Credit Suisse). Sophie also acts for the claimants in Muncipio de Mariana v BHP Group Plc, the largest piece of group litigation before the English Courts, which aims to determine corporate responsibility for the Fundão Dam collapse in Brazil.