Singapore, UK (England & Wales)
Sophie studied law at Trinity College, Oxford University.
She speaks English and Bahasa (both Indonesia and Melayu).
Sophie has over 25 years of experience in cross-border corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, takeovers and joint ventures across Southeast Asia. Sophie has specialist expertise in the financial services, energy and technology sectors and is well-known for her pivotal role in deals with a strong Singapore nexus.
Sophie began her career in London, where she trained and worked for five years. In 2010, Sophie spent three months in Jakarta on a secondment to PT Astra International, Indonesia’s largest conglomerate, assisting on the legal aspects of many of the group’s businesses.
Over the course of her career, Sophie has consistently worked on some of the largest and most complicated transactions in the region. Sophie is recognised for her Corporate/M&A expertise, and is ranked as a Band 1 lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific since 2020 and inducted into the ’Hall of Fame’ by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific since 2022. The leading legal directories note that she is “outstanding and on top of things”, “technically gifted and able to navigate different legal cultures”, concluding that she is "the gold standard for M&A in the region". Sophie has been ranked among the Top 20 most innovative lawyers from the past two decades at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Global Summit 2025 and also awarded Lawyer of the Year (Private Practice) at the Legal 500 Southeast Asia 2020/21 Awards.
Sophie has led on a number of significant transactions. These include advising:
Sophie is the Chairperson of Babes, a Singapore-registered charity that supports pregnant teens. She is also on the advisory board of the Singapore Management University Law School and on the Company Law Advisory Panel - an advisory panel established by the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore to advise it on corporate law.
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