For the team at Twenty Essex, commercial chancery work, company law issues, and commercial offshore litigation are key areas of strength. Duncan Matthews KC boasts a significant international arbitration practice, and Andrew Ayres KC is a BVI and Cayman advocate, regularly appearing before the Court of Appeal and Privy Council. Tony Beswetherick KC is especially skilled in advising on civil fraud, asset recovery, and company and insolvency-related disputes. Joshua Folkard has acted in numerous cases in the BVI and the Cayman Islands, and is particularly strong on Eastern Caribbean civil procedure. In recent matters, he acted for the joint liquidators in a USD1bn claim following the collapse of one of the world’s largest Ponzi schemes. Sarah Tresman is another key junior at the set, with expertise in handling banking and financial services mandates.
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Arbitration; Banking and financial services; Civil fraud and asset tracing; Company law; Insolvency and restructuring
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Sarah is a versatile barrister with extensive client-facing experience. She specialises in commercial disputes in the areas of fraud and asset tracing, banking and financial services, insolvency and company law and international arbitration. Many of the matters she is involved in have an offshore element.
Sarah has spent significant periods of time working in-house in London, Norway, and the Cayman Islands. She has substantial experience appearing in the courts of England and Wales and the Cayman Islands.
She spent seven years at Twenty Essex followed by three years in the Cayman Islands as a litigation attorney with a top tier offshore law firm, Walkers. Whilst at Twenty Essex, Sarah developed a strong commercial practice across Chambers’ core practice areas.
During her time in the Cayman Islands, Sarah worked in the insolvency and dispute resolution department with a focus on litigation. She pursued work related to insolvency, civil fraud and asset tracing, contentious trust litigation, and provided legal services to global corporations, financial institutions, capital markets participants and investment fund managers.
In August 2019, she returned to Chambers, with significant expertise in civil fraud and asset tracing, company law, and commercial law. Since returning to Chambers, Sarah has appeared in the courts of England as sole advocate and as a junior in the British Virgin Islands. She has experience obtaining and responding to applications for freezing and proprietary injunctions, receivership orders, and Norwich Pharmacal relief.
Sarah is admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, British Virgin Islands and is direct access qualified.
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