Practice
Eleanor is a “very impressive junior who is great on paper and on her feet”, “very thorough and a real team player” , and “extremely knowledgeable and provides a consistently high service” (Chambers and Partners UK, Chancery: Commercial 2021). Eleanor is “the engine room of any team she’s on: she produces very complicated documents in a very short space of time and work of an excellent standard. She is extremely bright, very easy to deal with and diplomatic in her dealings” (Chambers and Partners UK, Chancery: Commercial 2023). She was previously recommended by Legal 500 as one of the top ten commercial litigation juniors under eight years’ call, and described as “good with clients, hardworking and a very nice person too”.
Eleanor is a barrister and mediator with a broad commercial Chancery practice. Eleanor provides practical advice tailored to meeting the client’s objectives, and she is particularly sought after for work involving complex legal questions. Eleanor regularly receives repeat instructions from solicitors’ firms, and she works both alone and led by barristers (including silks) in and out of Chambers. Eleanor accepts instructions with a German language element. Eleanor is called to the Bar in the BVI.
Eleanor is a CEDR-accredited mediator, offering a practical and constructive approach to parties wishing to explore settlement of their dispute.
Eleanor is a trustee of Advocate, and has, throughout her career, held volunteer pro bono, social responsibility, ED&I and committee roles (including for the Chancery Bar Association and the Bar Council). Eleanor was founding Chair of the Junior Chancery Bar.
Practice areas
- Commercial dispute resolution
Eleanor regularly advises, drafts pleadings and other documents, and appears in Court on a range of commercial matters. Eleanor provides practical advice tailored to meeting the client’s objectives, and she is particularly sought after for work involving complex legal questions.
Eleanor has acted for the claimants in complex and very valuable proceedings concerning credit linked notes (led by Mark Phillips QC and Sharif Shivji). She has experience of financial mis-selling claims (including advising alone and led by Sharif Shivji), and is comfortable with complicated financial transactions. She has previously been instructed by JP Morgan (led by Laurence Rabinowitz QC, Richard Handyside QC and David Murray, in one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2014) in a substantial Commercial Court dispute arising from a synthetic CDO transaction entered into between the bank and a European public entity, and (led by Alain Choo Choy QC and Sharif Shivji) by the claimant in a claim for losses arising from foreign exchange trading.
Eleanor has experience, acting both alone and in a team, of applications and interim remedies (including freezing orders, proprietary injunctions, disclosure orders and charging orders). Examples include the operation of bills of sale and questions as to the priority of claims to assets removed to the English jurisdiction from abroad, and advice and conduct of steps taken to recover diverted funds and to procure information about the recipients of those funds.
Eleanor also has experience of claims involving allegations of dishonesty, of stakeholder applications, of challenges to the jurisdiction of the English Courts (led by Richard Hill QC and Alastair Tomson), and of issues arising upon the registration of foreign judgments.
Eleanor has been instructed (led by Valentina Sloane) in procurement proceedings relating to a large IT contract held by a Government body.
Eleanor also has experience of working with expert witnesses, and is often instructed to assist in the preparation of expert reports or opinions.
- Banking & finance
Eleanor regularly advises, drafts pleadings and other documents, and appears in Court in banking and finance matters. Eleanor provides practical advice tailored to meeting the client’s objectives, and she is particularly sought after for work involving complex legal questions.
Eleanor has acted for the claimants in complex and very valuable proceedings concerning credit linked notes (led by Mark Phillips QC and Sharif Shivji). She has experience of financial mis-selling claims (including advising alone and led by Sharif Shivji), and is comfortable with complicated financial transactions. She has previously been instructed by JP Morgan (led by Laurence Rabinowitz QC, Richard Handyside QC and David Murray, in one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2014) in a substantial Commercial Court dispute arising from a synthetic CDO transaction entered into between the bank and a European public entity, and (led by Alain Choo Choy QC and Sharif Shivji) by the claimant in a claim for losses arising from foreign exchange trading.
Eleanor has received instructions from financial services regulators, including with Robert Miles QC, and with Jonathan Crow QC and Andrew George QC (advising and appearing for the Financial Services Authority in Ford v Financial Services Authority [2012] EWHC 997 (Admin)).
- Company law
Eleanor regularly advises, drafts pleadings and other documents, and appears in Court on a range of company law matters. Eleanor provides practical advice tailored to meeting the client’s objectives, and she is particularly sought after for work involving complex legal questions.
Eleanor has significant experience of unfair prejudice proceedings, derivative claims, just & equitable winding up, and substantial claims against directors and shareholders (for example questions of directors’ authority (actual or apparent), of breach of duty, and of return of dividends). This includes claims being litigated in England and Wales, the British Virgin Islands, Malaysia and Singapore (led by George Bompas QC, Jonathan Crow QC, Orlando Fraser QC and Hermann Boeddinghaus QC).
- Chancery: commercial
Eleanor regularly advises, drafts pleadings and other documents, and appears in Court on a range of Chancery matters. Eleanor provides practical advice tailored to meeting the client’s objectives, and she is particularly sought after for work involving complex legal questions.
Eleanor has significant experience of unfair prejudice proceedings, derivative claims, just & equitable winding up, and substantial claims against directors and shareholders (for example questions of directors’ authority (actual or apparent), of breach of duty, and of return of dividends). This includes claims being litigated in England and Wales, the British Virgin Islands, Malaysia and Singapore (led by George Bompas QC, Jonathan Crow QC, Orlando Fraser QC and Hermann Boeddinghaus QC).
Eleanor has acted for the claimants in complex and very valuable proceedings concerning credit linked notes (led by Mark Phillips QC and Sharif Shivji). She has experience of financial mis-selling claims (including advising alone and led by Sharif Shivji), and is comfortable with complicated financial transactions. She has previously been instructed by JP Morgan (led by Laurence Rabinowitz QC, Richard Handyside QC and David Murray, in one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2014) in a substantial Commercial Court dispute arising from a synthetic CDO transaction entered into between the bank and a European public entity, and (led by Alain Choo Choy QC and Sharif Shivji) by the claimant in a claim for losses arising from foreign exchange trading.
Eleanor has experience, acting both alone and in a team, of applications and interim remedies (including freezing orders, proprietary injunctions, disclosure orders and charging orders). Examples include the operation of bills of sale and questions as to the priority of claims to assets removed to the English jurisdiction from abroad, and advice and conduct of steps taken to recover diverted funds and to procure information about the recipients of those funds.
Eleanor also has experience of claims involving allegations of dishonesty, of stakeholder applications, of challenges to the jurisdiction of the English Courts (led by Richard Hill QC and Alastair Tomson), and of issues arising upon the registration of foreign judgments.
Eleanor has been instructed (led by Valentina Sloane) in procurement proceedings relating to a large IT contract held by a Government body.
Eleanor also has experience of working with expert witnesses, and is often instructed to assist in the preparation of expert reports or opinions.
- Insolvency & restructuring
Eleanor advises, drafts pleadings and other documents, and appears in Court on a range of matters arising of corporate insolvency and bankruptcy (including cross-border issues).
Eleanor has acted (led by Mark Phillips QC and Sharif Shivji) in substantial and complex insolvency proceedings and related civil claims connected to the Icelandic banking sector, which have included questions relating to a liquidator’s power to gather information (Chesterfield United Inc [2012] EWHC 244 (Ch)).
Eleanor receives instructions to pursue or defend bankruptcy and winding up petitions, including applications to set aside statutory demands. She has advised alone on sensitive administration proceedings concerning a high-profile sports team, and she has experience of claims involving a liquidator’s scrutiny of previous transactions (including in cases led by Christopher Harrison) and of allegations of a director’s personal liability for a company’s debts (complicated by a related claim in professional negligence).
- Financial services
Eleanor has received instructions from financial services regulators, including with Robert Miles QC, and with Jonathan Crow QC and Andrew George QC (advising and appearing for the Financial Services Authority in Ford v Financial Services Authority [2012] EWHC 997 (Admin)).
Eleanor has acted for the claimants in complex and very valuable proceedings concerning credit linked notes (led by Mark Phillips QC and Sharif Shivji). She has experience of financial mis-selling claims (including advising alone and led by Sharif Shivji), and is comfortable with complicated financial transactions. She has previously been instructed by JP Morgan (led by Laurence Rabinowitz QC, Richard Handyside QC and David Murray, in one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2014) in a substantial Commercial Court dispute arising from a synthetic CDO transaction entered into between the bank and a European public entity, and (led by Alain Choo Choy QC and Sharif Shivji) by the claimant in a claim for losses arising from foreign exchange trading.
- Administrative & public law
Eleanor has received instructions from financial services regulators, including with Robert Miles QC, and with Jonathan Crow QC and Andrew George QC (advising and appearing for the Financial Services Authority in Ford v Financial Services Authority [2012] EWHC 997 (Admin)).
- Offshore litigation
Eleanor has substantial experience of litigation (in particular, unfair prejudice, just & equitable winding up and derivative claims) in the BVI Court and on appeal to the Privy Council.
- Trusts
Eleanor regularly addresses questions of trusts law in the context of her practice.
- Alternative dispute resolution
Eleanor is a CEDR-accredited mediator, offering a practical and constructive approach to parties wishing to explore settlement of their dispute.
Eleanor also has experience (as counsel) of mediation and of arbitration, including as to preparation of expert reports.
Additional info
- What the directories and judges say
Eleanor is a “very impressive junior who is great on paper and on her feet”. She is “very thorough and a real team player” , and she is “extremely knowledgeable and provides a consistently high service” (Chambers and Partners UK, Chancery: Commercial 2021).
Eleanor is “the engine room of any team she’s on: she produces very complicated documents in a very short space of time and work of an excellent standard. She is extremely bright, very easy to deal with and diplomatic in her dealings” (Chambers and Partners UK, Chancery: Commercial 2023).
Eleanor was previously recommended by Legal 500 as one of the top ten commercial litigation juniors under eight years’ call, and described as “good with clients, hardworking and a very nice person too”.
- Career & appointments
Trustee of Advocate
Founding Chair of the Junior Chancery Bar
Co-ordinator of PILARS (the Personal Insolvency Litigation Advice and Representation Scheme)
Member of the Bar Council Pro Bono and Social Responsibility Committee
Member of the Chancery Bar Association Pro Bono and Equality and Diversity Sub-Committees
Member of the Commercial Bar Association and the Chancery Bar Association
Judicial Assistant to Lord Justice Rix, Michaelmas Term 2011 - Publications
Annotated Companies Legislation, OUP 2013 (contributor)
Sham Transactions, Miranda Stewart and Edwin Simpson, OUP 2013 (contributor)
Supreme Court Yearbook Volume 8:2016-2017 Legal Year (contributor)
LexisPSL (contributor) - Education & awards
Jesus College, Oxford: Jesus College Law Prize, Edwin Jones Scholarship and S.R. Welson Prize
Lincoln’s Inn: Lord Denning Scholarship, Hardwicke Entrance Award, Buchanan Prize and Pupillage Scholarship
BA (Oxon)
LLM - Languages
German
