Sophie Ashcroft

Partner
Sophie empowers businesses to mitigate commercial risk through sophisticated stakeholder engagement and strategic communication.
Sophie empowers businesses to mitigate commercial risk through sophisticated stakeholder engagement and strategic communication.

About

Sophie is a disputes lawyer with a proven track record in resolving complex, high-stakestechnology and IT disputes, often involving cross-border elements.

Her practice spans sectors including technology, data centres, entertainment, outsourcing, and financial institutions. Sophie is also a trusted advisor on shareholder disputes, such as unfair prejudice claims, as well as a wide range of commercial matters, including breach of warranty, breaches of directors’ duties, shareholder agreement and restrictive covenant disputes.

Sophie joined Stevens & Bolton in 2025 from an international firm, where she was based in London. Clients appreciate her incisive approach to legal issues and her focus on achieving a commercially pragmatic outcome. Sophie consistently delivers exceptional outcomes for her clients, ensuring their interests are protected and advanced at every stage.

Expertise
Technology disputes

Experience

  • Recent work
    • Acting for an international food producer in securing a freezing order against defendants pending the determination of the client’s £4m claim for fraud and unlawful means conspiracy.
    • Acting for the defendant in a £9m unfair prejudice claim with related derivative action brought on behalf of the company.
    • Advising a private equity client on its £3m warranty claim against the Sellers under a Share Purchase Agreement.
    • Acting for a public sector client in a £3.5m IT dispute involving deficient service provision, over-charging and delay.
    • Advising a lottery operator in relation to a £1m claim brought by a customer, succeeding both at first instance and in the Court of Appeal.
    • Representing a global client in the entertainment sector in a £2.5m claim relating to the early termination of a football sponsorship agreement, successfully settling at mediation.
  • Qualifications and recognition

    Sophie is a member of the IBA, iTechLaw, and the Society for Computers and Law. She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Oxford.

  • Acting for an international food producer in securing a freezing order against defendants pending the determination of the client’s £4m claim for fraud and unlawful means conspiracy.
  • Acting for the defendant in a £9m unfair prejudice claim with related derivative action brought on behalf of the company.
  • Advising a private equity client on its £3m warranty claim against the Sellers under a Share Purchase Agreement.
  • Acting for a public sector client in a £3.5m IT dispute involving deficient service provision, over-charging and delay.
  • Advising a lottery operator in relation to a £1m claim brought by a customer, succeeding both at first instance and in the Court of Appeal.
  • Representing a global client in the entertainment sector in a £2.5m claim relating to the early termination of a football sponsorship agreement, successfully settling at mediation.

Sophie is a member of the IBA, iTechLaw, and the Society for Computers and Law. She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Oxford.

Sophie Ashcroft is a keenly intelligent, adept litigator who draws on a huge amount of experience to deliver real strategic and tactical value. She is, also, calm and authoritative while being a pleasure to work with.
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