Sofie Edwards

Sofie Edwards

  • Counsel
  • London
she / her / hers

OVERVIEW

Sofie is a dual-qualified Counsel who has significant cross-border experience working on large-scale competition and commercial disputes, with a focus on investigating and bringing proceedings, including collective actions, against those who have breached competition law.   

Expertise

Sofie has significant experience advising on many complex contentious proceedings across a broad range of business sectors, involving both English, Australian, and foreign law – often across multiple jurisdictions. She predominately works on market-leading, high profile and high value commercial, regulatory and competition litigation in the England & Wales High Court and in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). In recent years, she has very much worked at the forefront of the collective actions regime in the UK and is pivotal member of several Hausfeld teams that are bringing collective actions for alleged abuses of dominance before the CAT, against some of the largest technology companies globally.

Sofie was involved in defending two of the early collective actions for competitions harms previously at Slaughter and May, London and started her career at King & Wood Mallesons in Australia.

Clients

Sofie has worked for clients in several sectors including technology, finance, aviation, travel, government, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

Working towards a diverse, equitable and inclusive work force is paramount to Sofie who is an active member of Hausfeld's Social Inclusion group.

Experience