Sophie Mallinckrodt

Call 1999: MA History (Camb) Former Solicitor (1994-1999)
Email: smallinckrodt@3vb.com

Sophie Mallinckrodt specialises in commercial litigation and advisory work. She has extensive experience in banking and finance, insurance and reinsurance, financial services, professional negligence and commercial/civil fraud. She regularly appears as sole counsel at trials and interlocutory hearings.

Described as a"highly regarded junior" and "very commercially astute and practical", Sophie is ranked in the 2010 Legal 500 for professional negligence and in the 2010 Chambers UK for financial services, being "a purveyor of in-depth advice" and providing "great clarity on the regulatory aspects of any dispute".

Before coming to the Bar, Sophie qualified as a solicitor at Slaughter and May (1994-1996) and was an associate in the corporate finance department (1996-1999) where she advised on company law, private equity and venture capital, takeovers, Stock Exchange Listing Rules, regulatory requirements and sale and purchase agreements. Sophie also worked in Slaughter and May's Paris Office.

Seminars and Talks

Sophie has given talks on the following:

Insurance Mediation post 14th January 2005
Identification of Insurance Contracts
Financial Services Investigations and Enforcement
Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurance

Publications

Author of chapter on "Potential Liabilities under FSMA 2000" in Banking Litigation (2nd edition, 2005, Sweet & Maxwell).

Contributor to insurance section of Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings (15th edition, 2004, Sweet & Maxwell).

Memberships

Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)
Financial Services Lawyers Association
London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association (LCLCBA)

Awards & Scholarships

Thomas Cassel Scholar (Lincoln's Inn) (1999)

Languages

French & German (fluent)