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Sophie Palmer

Sophie Palmer

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  • London
    Millennium Bridge House
    2 Lambeth Hill
    London EC4V 4AJ
    United Kingdom

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Sophie Palmer is a senior associate in Salans' London office working in the Dispute Resolution group. Sophie is a fluent Russian speaker and frequently acts in disputes involving Russian-speaking parties and Russian language documentation. She has extensive experience in both litigation and international arbitration and has worked on cases in a number of business sectors involving shareholder disputes, breach of contract, fraud, negligence, property and debt recovery, enforcement and complex conflict of laws issues. She has also published articles and spoken on a number of topics.

Recent Experience:

  • Currently acting for the Claimant in an ICSID arbitration brought under a bilateral investment treaty for a former shareholder in a bank that was nationalised by a South-east Asian State without compensation being paid
  • Acting for the Respondent to a USD 3.5 billion ICC arbitration brought against a municipality of an Asian state by a US contractor, in respect of an aborted infrastructure project; the dispute was settled on very favourable terms for the Respondent
  • Acting for a high net-worth individual in complex multi-party litigation with defendants based in various inaccessible jurisdictions, and successfully regaining control of a complex corporate structure acquired by him of which he had been fraudulently deprived
  • Acting in a successful LCIA arbitration claim for a Cypriot company brought against a Russian citizen in respect of a failed real estate project
  • Providing English and EU law advice to a US client on enforcement of LCIA arbitral awards against respondents in Gibraltar and Russia
  • Acting in a successful claim brought in an LCIA arbitration concerning the defective design and construction of a new church in the UK
  • Acting for the Respondent in its successful defence of an LCIA claim arising from a contract for the performance of services in Sudan
  • Acting for the successful Claimants in an ICC arbitration of a dispute arising between parties to a joint venture in Kazakhstan

Career:

  • Senior Associate  - Salans, London (2009 to present)
  • Associate - Salans, London (2002-2009)
  • Trainee Solicitor - Salans, London (2000-2002)
  • Paralegal - Salans, London (1995-1999)

Education:

  • BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course (2000)
  • BPP Law School, Post-Graduate Diploma in Law (1999)
  • Cambridge University, B.A. (Hons.) in Russian (1992)

Languages:

  • English
  • Russian
  • French

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