Sophie Brophy

Sophie’s experience includes:

• Advising an engine manufacturer, its multinational joint venture partners and affiliated companies on the investigation into, and suitable resolution of, falsified engine parts sold into the international market by a UK supplier;
• Advising an airline and its insurers in respect of an aircraft collision at Lagos Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Nigeria;
• Advising an Unmanned Aerial System operator on regulatory requirements on dual-use items as part of the due diligence of a proposed sale;
• Advising on the entry by a ground handler into a new fixed base operator licence at a London airport.
• Advising a helicopter manufacturer and its insurers in respect of world-wide losses claimed as a result of a product defect and resultant grounding of the aircraft type;
• Acting for US aircraft part manufacturer in respect of a multi-party, cross-border product liability dispute;
• Acting for an aircraft manufacturer and its insurers in respect of a product liability claim following a heavy landing at an Italian airport;
• Acting for a ground handling company in respect of disputes, indemnity issues and breach of representations arising from an acquisition of a competitor ground handler;
• Acting for an airline and its insurers in respect of a collision with an aircraft at a Turkish airport;
• Acting for an aircraft manufacturer in respect of a helicopter accident in Glasgow and subsequent Fatal Accident Inquiry;
• Acting for an airline and its insurers in an arbitration concerning the sea-based loss of a passenger aircraft;
• Acting for a UK helicopter operator in respect of expanding its business into the Persian Gulf;
• Advising an airport management authority in respect of unpaid service charges from a long-term parked aircraft;
• Acting for an UAE airline in respect of their passenger personal injury, property damage and delay claims under EU Regulation 261/2004 and the Montreal Convention 1999.