Sophie is Counsel in the Private Credit practice. She advises financial institutions on complex debt financing transactions for private equity funds and their portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and financial institutions including banks, direct lenders, and other institutional investors. Her experience includes acting on direct lending transactions, leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border syndicated senior and junior lending, recurring revenue transactions, data center financings, holdco PIK financings, recapitalizations and special situations. Sophie is experienced in advising clients on complex technical issues which may arise from English but also foreign law perspectives.
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Work Highlights
Her representative experience includes representing:
- Ardian, Ares Credit funds and other lenders as senior unitranche lenders in connection with the acquisition of Rhétorès Group by IK Partners
- A consortium of unitranche Lenders in connection with Waterland’s acquisition of Palletways Group
- A consortium of lenders in connection with H.I.G. Capital’s strategic investment in Avanta Salud
- Bain Capital in connection with a unitranche refinancing of AllDent, a portfolio company of Castik Capital
- A consortium of unitranche bondholders in connection with the unitranche bond financing to Nomios, a portfolio company of Keensight Capital, and its acquisition of Intragen
Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:
- Blue Owl and a consortium of direct lenders on a c. $2bn unitranche financing for the acquisition of the US / UK management software group RL Datix by Five Arrows
- H.I.G. Capital on a unitranche acquisition financing for the UK-based manufacture and industrial group Rainham Industrial Services
- Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Bank of America in a syndicated financing for the acquisition of a Germany-based health and food retail group by CVC Capital
- A consortium of lenders on a JP Morgan led financing of a c. $2.3 billion senior construction loan for a Blue Owl / Crusoe joint venture data center construction in Abilene, Texas and a c. $2 billion senior financing for the buildout of a hyperscale data center in West Jordan, Salt Lake City, Utah
Accolades
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Legal 500, “Key Lawyer” in Acquisition Finance and Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans (2024 and 2025)
Education
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University of California, Berkeley, 2014 Apecialization in business law
LL.M.
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University of Luxembourg, 2011 Economics and Finance
LL.M.
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Université de Nantes, 2010 Law, Economics and Administration
Master of Private Laws
Associations
- California Young Lawyers Association (CYLA)
- Cal Alumni Association and Berkeley Alumni Network
- Illinois State Bar Association
Admissions
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England and Wales
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California
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Illinois
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Luxembourg
Sophie is Counsel in the Private Credit practice. She advises financial institutions on complex debt financing transactions for private equity funds and their portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and financial institutions including banks, direct lenders, and other institutional investors. Her experience includes acting on direct lending transactions, leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border syndicated senior and junior lending, recurring revenue transactions, data center financings, holdco PIK financings, recapitalizations and special situations. Sophie is experienced in advising clients on complex technical issues which may arise from English but also foreign law perspectives.
Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Sophie practiced in London, Luxembourg and Chicago, with her U.S. experience focusing on domestic commercial finance and asset-based lending transactions.
Sophie was recognized as a “Key Lawyer” by Legal 500 in Acquisition Finance and Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans in 2024 and 2025.