Sophie Staples

A Partner in the Firm’s Tax Practice, Sophie Staples advises clients on tax matters in a variety of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing transactions and securities offerings. She has advised private equity sponsors, as well as their portfolio companies and other strategic clients, on the tax aspects of numerous investments, acquisitions and divestitures.

Sophie joined Simpson Thacher in 2012 and was made Partner in 2021.

Sophie received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent Scholar, received the John Ordronaux Prize for class valedictorian and was a notes editor of the Columbia Law Review. She received her B.A., with distinction, from the University of Virginia.