Carly Sandbach

Call 2006

sandbach@exchangechambers.co.uk

"A very sharp and strong advocate."

Chambers and Partners 2020
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  • Recommendations

    “She is extremely tenacious and punches well above her weight; her advocacy skills are excellent.”

    “A very sharp and strong advocate.”

    “She is extremely tenacious and an excellent advocate.”
    Chambers and Partners 2020

    “Technically strong and an excellent advocate who applies commercial common sense where it is required.”

    “She is extremely tenacious, she punches well above her call and her advocacy skills are excellent.”
    Chambers and Partners 2019

    “She manages to get results when they’re not expected and is a fighter.”

    “She is really good at rolling her sleeves up and getting stuck into a case.”

    “She is a really strong advocate.”
    Chambers and Partners 2018

    “She is a superb advocate who is very sharp and always adds value.”

    “A tenacious advocate who is extremely well versed in this area.”

    “She’s a real fighter, very thorough in her preparation, very hard-working and has good commercial acumen – definitely one to watch.”

    “She’s good, and quite impressive on her feet.”
    Chambers and Partners 2017

    “She is tenacious and pugnacious when she needs to be. She’s very hard-working and has a good commercial attitude.”
    Chambers and Partners 2016

    “Excellent on the law and extremely tenacious.”
    The Legal 500 2020

    “Very bright and tenacious; she bats well above her year of call.”
    The Legal 500 2018/19

    “She is an excellent and committed advocate.”
    The Legal 500 2017

    “Aggressive in the pursuit of her client’s objectives.”
    The Legal 500 2016

    “Her preparation for hearings and conferences is outstanding.”
    The Legal 500 2015

    “Handles all aspects of Chancery and commercial litigation, including insolvency.”
    The Legal 500 2014

  • Education

    • First Class Honours degree in Law at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and was the highest ranking student in her year on the Bar Vocational Course.

  • Appointments

    • Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional Panel A)

  • Memberships

    • Chancery Bar Association
    • Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
    • Northern Chancery Bar Association
    • Northern Administrative Law Association
    • Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3)

  • News

Professional Negligence

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, directors disqualification, professional negligence, banking, mortgage, guarantees and recovery of assets, trusts, contractual disputes and sale of goods.

Carly specialises in professional negligence claims. She regularly acts for financial institutions and other lenders in pursuing professional negligence claims against a number of professional advisors, including valuers, surveyors, solicitors and accountants. She also has significant experience of dealing with claims for contributory negligence, that are more regularly being made against financial institutions regarding their lending and other practices.

Carly is consistently recommended as a Leading Individual in Chambers and Partners. In Chambers and Partners 2020 she was recommended as a Leading Individual in both the fields of Commercial Dispute Resolution and Restructuring/Insolvency. Described as “a very sharp and strong 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 is extremely tenacious and punches well above her weight; her advocacy skills are excellent.” 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.”

In 2010 Carly was appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown (Provincial Panel) and was re-appointed in 2018 to Regional 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, Energy and Industrial Strategy and other Government Departments.