Sophia Rolle-Kapousouzoglou

Practice Areas

Sophia is a Litigation Partner at Lennox Paton and member of the insolvency and restructuring team. Sophia represents a variety of clients in all aspects of liquidations and receiverships and has acted in numerous prominent cross-border insolvency cases and multi-jurisdictional matters. With a strong reputation in the field of insolvency, and an experienced trial lawyer, she appears regularly before the Courts in The Bahamas and has appeared as Junior Counsel in the Privy Council. Sophia impresses sources with her industrious approach to the work she takes on and her practice encompasses contentious shareholder and commercial disputes, trust litigation cases, fraud and asset tracing matters including Norwich Pharmacal applications, injunctions and other interlocutory relief.

Sophia is frequently called upon to speak at International Conferences and has been named in ‘Global Restructuring Review’s 40 Under 40’. Sophia authored The Bahamas chapter of GRRs Americas Restructuring Review, INSOL International’s Insolvency and Trusts and numerous other publications.

Professional Memberships

Sophia is a member of the Bahamas Bar Association and The Honourable Society of Middle Temple. Sophia is a Fellow of INSOL International, Co-Chair of the Reorganization & Workouts Sub-Committee of the Insolvency Section of the International Bar Association (‘IBA’), and The Bahamas National Representative of AIJA.

Publications

Sophia is a prolific writer and some of her many articles include:

- THE BAHAMAS: An Introduction (Dispute Resolution) (2021)

- GRR Americas Restructuring Review 2020 – The Bahamas Chapter contributed by Sophia Rolle-Kapousouzoglou

- Jurisdictional reach of clawback claims in winding up proceedings (AWH Fund Ltd (in compulsory liquidation) v ZCM Asset Holding Co (Bermuda) Ltd (Bahamas)) (2019)

- INSOL World Third Quarter 2019, pages 34-37

- Asset Recovery Magazine by KNect365 Law, Issue 3 – Americas & Asia Focus (2019)

- GRR Restructuring Review of The Americas 2019 – The Bahamas Chapter contributed by Sophia Rolle-Kapousouzoglou and Olivia Moss

Work Highlights

- Currently advising the Joint Provisional Liquidators of FTX Digital Markets Ltd. (“In Provisional Liquidation”)

- Acting on behalf of minority shareholders in relation to a just and equitable winding up Petition involving Bahamian Mutual Funds and Delaware Feeder Funds

- Acting on behalf of ZCM Asset Holding Company (Bermuda) Ltd in a case before the Privy Council in which the Liquidator applied to serve a clawback claim outside of the jurisdiction

- Acted on behalf of customers of a bank in relation to an application for an injunction to prevent disclosure of client information concerning the Automatic Exchange of (Financial) Account Information Act

- Acting on behalf of Wesley International Ltd.et al, in an application for an injunction against Actis Consumer Grooming Products Ltd. in relation to cross-border litigation involving the Super Max Group of Companies

Industry Sector Expertise

Sophia has participated in several speaking engagements, lending her litigation expertise. Some of these speaking engagements include:

(2023)

INSOL Bermuda Seminar (Bermuda)

Panelist on “If in doubt, paddle out” – A practitioners’ guide to riding the crypto-restructuring wave.

(2022)

IBA Annual Conference (Miami)

Panelist on Distressed M&A and pre-packs from a buyer’s perspective.

INSOL/Worldbank Caribbean Roundtable

Virtual Roundtable –

Discussion on Insolvency reform and international best practice.

(2021)

C5 Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Geneva Conference

Virtual conference –

Panelist on Insolvency & Restructuring as Vehicles for Detecting Fraud and Recovering Assets: The Newest, Lesser Known Trends and Developments.

Education