Edwin Coe has recently announced that Sophia Bompas and Oliver Pannell have been promoted to the Partnership within the Restructuring & Insolvency and Insurance Litigation teams respectively.
Sophia (pictured) is an insolvency and restructuring specialist within Edwin Coe’s Tier 1 Chambers UK-ranked insolvency team. She has extensive experience advising on contentious and non-contentious corporate and personal insolvencies. Her broad insolvency practice sees her acting for clients across a range of industries and sectors, including insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors, banks, directors of financially distressed companies, as well as individuals in financial difficulty.
As a Chambers and Legal 500 recommended insurance claims specialist, Oliver is experienced in acting for policyholders in claims against insurers, as well as in claims for professional negligence against insurance brokers and other professionals. He regularly acts in claims involving breach of contract, allegations of negligence, breach of warranty, breach of condition precedent, misrepresentation, material non-disclosure and fraud.
David Kinch, Edwin Coe’s Managing Partner commented: 'I’m delighted to welcome experienced litigators Sophia and Oliver into the partnership at Edwin Coe. It is particularly pleasing that they are ‘home grown’ talents, both having joined us as trainees.'
Ali Zaidi, Head of Litigation added: 'Congratulations to Sophia and Oliver. They are both talented, tenacious litigators and a great asset to our clients and the firm.'
