Carly Sandbach

Call 2006

sandbach@exchangechambers.co.uk

"She is a silk in waiting."

Chambers and Partners 2024
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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, shareholder disputes, 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 variety 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 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”.

Carly recently secured an important victory in the Court of Appeal in the case of Allsop v Banner Jones [2021] EWCA Civ 7, which has significant and wide-ranging implications for future claims, and now features in all leading practitioner texts on the subject.

Carly was first appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2010, 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, and Trade.

She is currently representing the Government in Directors’ Disqualification proceedings against Alexander Greensill arising from the collapse of the eponymous Greensill Capital Group.