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Ms Sarah Bayliss
Position
Sarah has a well-established commercial and modern chancery practice and takes a particular interest in domestic trust/estate work, fraud and company/insolvency cases. She also has a niche practice in art and media disputes.
Sarah has extensive experience of complex offshore disputes in jurisdictions including Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the BVI, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar and the DIFC.
Career
Qualified 2002; Middle Temple
Memberships
- Chancery Bar Association
- Bar of Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (2003)
- Registered Legal Practitioner – Dubai International Financial Centre (2015)
Education
- BA (Hons) Cambridge (English)
- Scholar of Christ’s College
- Diploma of Law, City University
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3XXIV Old Buildings has a substantial banking and financial practice developed over three core areas, including hedge fund and structured investment vehicle work, international insolvencies involving banks and financial institutions, and claims against financial institutions relating to financial mismanagement. Stephen Moverley Smith KC has a practice spanning international litigation, especially those involving the BVI and Bermuda – he represented the defendant in Ivanishvilli v CS Life, a claim arising from a rogue trader fraud at a Swiss bank, with proceedings brought against its Bermudian subsidiary alleging a failure to discover the fraud – the claimant being former Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. Francis Tregear KC is noted for his ‘very good advocacy‘, and Sarah Bayliss has extensive experience of acting in mis-selling and negligence claims against financial institutions.
The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Sarah Bayliss –XXIV Old Buildings ‘Sarah is a user-friendly and measured junior, with an assured grasp of both the law and the practicalities of a case. She inspires real confidence in her clients and instructing solicitors.’