Carly Sandbach

Call 2006

sandbach@exchangechambers.co.uk

"She is a silk in waiting."

Chambers and Partners 2024
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Practice Overview

Carly is a leading individual whose practice covers all aspects of chancery and commercial litigation and advisory work. She has a broad range of experience in matters including insolvency (both personal and corporate), company and partnership, shareholder disputes, directors’ disqualification, professional negligence, banking, mortgage, guarantees and recovery of assets, trusts, contractual disputes and sale of goods.

Carly is consistently recommended as a Band 1 Leading Individual in Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500. In Chambers and Partners 2025 she continues to be recommended as a Band 1 Leading Individual in both the fields of Commercial Dispute Resolution and Restructuring/Insolvency. The Legal Directories report as follows:  “Carly is a real star; she combines really sharp analytical skills with a clear focus on achieving the client’s commercial goals, and she is as strong on paper as she is when appearing before the court with an ability in both forms to persuasively present her client’s case at its strongest. There are few barristers outside of London who stand comparison to Carly” and that “She is a Silk in Waiting”.

Described as “technically excellent and a very, very good advocate”; clients report that she is sensible and down-to-earth, fights cases with vigour and is proactive and able to quickly grasp the issues.

“She can be a real fighter when she needs to be, but is also very polished and very clever. Carly has earned a reputation for thoroughness: her preparation for hearings and conferences is described by the Legal 500 as simply “excellent on the law and extremely tenacious.”

Carly was first appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2010,  and was re-appointed in 2018 to Panel A.

Her clients include insolvency practitioners, banks, multi-nationals, small businesses, professional firms and private individuals, as well as the Secretary of State for Business, and Trade.