Sophie Henwood is a trainee solicitor in the firm’s Nottingham and Derby offices, joining the firm in September 2021. Sophie is now in her third trainee solicitor seat in the Corporate/Commercial team, where she assists the team on a wide range of matters, including disposals and acquisitions, restructuring, corporate finance and general company law.
Prior to this, Sophie has undertaken seats in the Family, Infrastructure and Construction and Dispute Resolution teams.
Sophie graduated from De Montfort University in 2016 with a 2:1 degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice with Psychology before completing the GDL (Graduate Diploma in Law) and the LPC LLM at the University of Law in Birmingham. Before starting at Geldards, Sophie had 3.5 years’ experience as a paralegal in a National Law Firm.