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Gray's
Inn
London WC1R 5NT
Tel: +44(0)20 7831 8441
Fax: +44(0)20 7831 8479
DX: LDE 331
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Education
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BA (Distinction) University of Alberta, 1972
- MA
McGill University, Montreal, 1974
- BA
(Jurisprudence) University of Oxford, 1976
- BCL
University of Oxford, 1978
Career
- 1978-1990
practicing lawyer in Canada and Insolvency Partner in Vancouver
law firm
- 1991-1998
Associate and then Insolvency Partner, Clifford Chance,
London
- 1998-2007
Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, and head
of Global Restructuring Group (2005-2007)
- 2007
to date Dean, Faculty of Laws, University College London
- Barrister
and member of Lincoln's Inn
- Door
tenant, 3 Verulam Buildings
Professional
Associations
- Member,
City of London Law Society, Insolvency Law Committee
- Editorial
Board Member, Insolvency Intelligence and International
Corporate Rescue
- Co-chair
of International Committee, American Bankruptcy Institute
Restructuring
and Insolvency Experience
- Clients
represented include corporate debtors, creditors of all
types (although mainly financial institutions), insolvency
officeholders such as administrators, administrative receivers
and liquidators, regulators and contracting counterparties
dealing with companies in financial difficulties. Sandy's
work is not restricted to "financial failures"
but has included transaction and contingency planning and
he has in this way become familiar with securitisation structures
and the range of activities of hedge funds and private equity
firms.
- Most
of Sandy's cases in recent years have involved more than
one - and often many - jurisdictions (UK, USA, dozens of
EU countries, Switzerland, Russia, Canada, Australia, the
Isle of Man, Zambia, Ghana, Algeria and Brazil). Examples
of specific mandates in which many jurisdictions were involved
in a single case include representing principal stakeholders
in the Air Canada insolvency, the bankruptcy of Swissair,
the US Ch.11 and subsequent European bankruptcies of Collins
& Aikman, the collapse of the MG Rover Group and the
restructuring of Eurotunnel. He has advised the boards of
many companies facing financial distress.
- "Throughout his career Sandy has maintained an active
interest in law reform. He has played a leading role in
the development and drafting of financial failure or bankruptcy
regimes in specific UK sectors (such as healthcare) and
in sovereign states (such as Russia, Azerbaijan and Brunei)."
- Sandy
has been a member of the City of London Law Society Insolvency
Law Committee for many years, and was Chairman of the Committee
from 2004 until 2007. This committee consists of 15 of the
leading restructuring and insolvency lawyers from the major
City of London practices, and functions as an effective
and representative voice of the City of London Law Society
by responding to consultation documents, lobbying and suggesting
areas where law reform should be considered. At the same
time as being Dean of Laws at UCL, he remains a member of
that committee.
- The
2005 edition of Chambers UK lists Sandy as a leading lawyer:
"Shandro is a popular figure: 'An effective lawyer
- everyone trusts his judgment.'" He is one of 8 UK
lawyers named in the Insolvency and Restructuring section
of the Best of the Best 2006 expert guides series. The 2006
edition of Legal 500 states: "Sandy Shandro has an
immense reputation for cross-border and multi-jurisdictional
restructurings."
Seminars,
Conferences and Panels
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Sandy has presented papers and spoken or moderated panels
at, or chaired, conferences under the auspices of the UK's
main professional body for restructuring professionals,
R3 (and its predecessor, the SPI), the international restructuring
organisations INSOL and INSOL Europe, the American Bankruptcy
Institute, the Turnaround Management Association, the British
Institute of International and Comparative Law, the British
Bankers' Association, the American Association of Bankers,
the Insolvency Institute of Canada and many commercial conference
organisations.
- He
has spoken at seminars organised by all of the major accounting
firms, many commercial and investment banks, the Bank of
England, the American Credit Officers Group, the Institute
of Interim Managers, journalists from the Times and the
Financial Times, bond rating agencies, Cambridge University
Faculty of Law, the Beijing Bar and the Hungarian Association
of Liquidators.
Selected
List of Publications
- "Risks
in Bank Liquidation Procedures", Insolvency Practitioner,
Spring 1993 (with Nancy Jacklin)
- Book
Review of Bankruptcy (Scotland) act 1993 [1994] 4 JIBL 180
(with Delia Buxton)
- "Reform
of CVAs and administration orders" Insolvency Bulletin,
May 1994 (with Dermot Turing)
- "Mediation
and the Insolvency Practitioner: part one" Insolvency
Bulletin, April 1998
- "Mediation
and the Insolvency Practitioner: part two" Insolvency
Bulletin, May 1998
- "Judicial
Co-operation in Cross-Border Insolvency" International
Insolvency Review, VH.7: 63-78 (1998)
- Book
Review of "Case Studies in Recent Canadians Insolvency
Reorganization", INSOL International Insolvency Law
Review, Vol 8: 199-202 (1999)
- Book
Review of "Insolvency in Private International Law",
INSOL International Insolvency Law Review, Vol 9: 165-167
(2000)
- "Falling
apart? Rescue Mechanisms and Insolvency" PLC January-February
2002, pp19-32 (with Catherine Derrick)
- "Case
Study: Brac Rent-a-Car International Inc. Financier Worldwide,
March/April 2003.
- "The
impact of the US approach in Europe" Legalease Special
Report: Finance 2003.
- "Note
on Brac Rent-a-Car International," INSOL World, Second
Quarter, 2003
- "Insolvency
Practitioner Fees in the UK", Insolvency Intelligence,
2004
- "Forewarned
is Forearmed When the Going gets Tough," Private Equity
News, 14 August 2006.
- "Viewpoints
on Restructuring," Acquisitions Monthly, May 2006
- Book
Review of "Insolvency in Private International Law",
INSOL World, Second Quarter 2006
- "The
Implementation of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border
Insolvency in Great Britain," INSOL World, Second Quarter
2006
- "Adoption
of the UNCITRAL Model Law Gathers Momentum," INSOL
World, Second Quarter 2006 (with Steven Golick and Scott
Everett)
- "The
Implications of the UNCITRAL Model Law," Bloomberg
Corporate Law Journal, Summer 2006
- "China
Walks Before it Runs," International Financing Review,
28 October 2006
- "UNCITRAL
Model Law in the UK - one year on," Insolvency and
Restructuring International, Vol. 1, No.1, May 2007 (with
Ian Wallace).
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