Sandie Lyne

Practice Areas

Banking Disputes; Corporate and Financial Disputes; Dispute Resolution; Fraud and Asset Tracing; Insurance Disputes; Restructuring and Insolvency; Shareholder and Valuation Disputes; Trusts Advisory Group; Trusts Disputes and Applications; Employment law; Regulatory

Career

Sandie is a Guernsey Advocate with extensive experience in commercial and financial dispute resolution, especially contentious trusts, restructuring, insolvency, and regulatory matters. She regularly advises in connection with complex and high value international matters with multi-jurisdictional elements, including acting on the restructuring of Ocean Rig, one of the highest value restructurings on record, during a secondment to Ogier's Cayman office.

Her practice encompasses all aspects of commercial and financial dispute resolution with a special focus on cross-border contentious trusts, regulatory matters, insolvency, schemes of arrangement, employment and shareholder disputes. Sandie has acted for trustees, licensed fiduciaries, beneficiaries, high net worth individuals as well as international banks and professional liquidators. She is experienced in advising in connection with complex and high value international matters with multi-jurisdictional elements.

Professional Memberships

Sandie became an associate member of the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) in 2010.

Publications

Sandie has written articles on a variety of subjects including the consequences of trustees' mistakes (published by the Solicitors Journal), the balancing of the rights of asset custodians and asset owners under Guernsey's AML reporting regime, third party funding (published by Westlaw), disclosure by beneficiaries (published in the Trusts and Trustees journal) and trustees as shareholders (published by Blue Islands inflight magazine). She is also a major contributor to the Guernsey chapter of International Trusts Laws (LexisNexis).