Overview
Eleanor is a barrister and mediator with a 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 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.
Areas of expertise
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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 expert reports.
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Chancery: Commercial
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 KC, Jonathan Crow KC, Orlando Fraser KC and Hermann Boeddinghaus KC).
Eleanor has acted for the claimants in complex and very valuable proceedings concerning credit linked notes (led by Mark Phillips KC and Sharif Shivji KC). She has experience of financial misselling claims (including advising alone and led by Sharif Shivji KC), and is comfortable with complicated financial transactions. She has previously been instructed by JP Morgan (led by Laurence Rabinowitz KC, Richard Handyside KC 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 KC and Sharif Shivji KC) 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 KC and Alastair Tomson), and of issues arising upon the registration of foreign judgments.
Eleanor has been instructed (led by Valentina Sloane KC) in procurement proceedings relating to a large IT contract held by a Government body.
Eleanor also has experience of working with expert witnesses.
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Company Law
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 KC, Jonathan Crow KC, Orlando Fraser KC and Hermann Boeddinghaus KC).
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Commercial Dispute Resolution
Eleanor has acted for the claimants in complex and very valuable proceedings concerning credit linked notes (led by Mark Phillips KC and Sharif Shivji KC). She has experience of financial misselling claims (including advising alone and led by Sharif Shivji KC), and is comfortable with complicated financial transactions. She has been instructed by JP Morgan (led by Laurence Rabinowitz KC, Richard Handyside KC 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 KC and Sharif Shivji KC) 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 KC and Alastair Tomson), and of issues arising upon the registration of foreign judgments.
Eleanor has been instructed (led by Valentina Sloane KC) in procurement proceedings relating to a large IT contract held by a Government body.
Eleanor also has experience of working with expert witnesses.
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Insolvency & Restructuring
Eleanor has experience on a range of matters arising in corporate insolvency and bankruptcy (including cross-border issues).
Eleanor has acted (led by Mark Phillips KC 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 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).
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Banking & Finance
Eleanor has acted for the claimants in complex and very valuable proceedings concerning credit linked notes (led by Mark Phillips KC and Sharif Shivji KC). She has experience of financial misselling claims (including advising alone and led by Sharif Shivji KC), and is comfortable with complicated financial transactions. She has been instructed by JP Morgan (led by Laurence Rabinowitz KC, Richard Handyside KC 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 KC and Sharif Shivji KC) 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 KC, and with Jonathan Crow KC and Andrew George KC (advising and appearing for the Financial Services Authority in Ford v Financial Services Authority [2012] EWHC 997 (Admin)).
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Financial Services
Eleanor has received instructions from financial services regulators, including with Robert Miles KC, and with Jonathan Crow KC and Andrew George KC (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 KC and Sharif Shivji KC). She has experience of financial misselling claims (including advising alone and led by Sharif Shivji KC), and is comfortable with complicated financial transactions. She has previously been instructed by JP Morgan (led by Laurence Rabinowitz KC, Richard Handyside KC 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 KC and Sharif Shivji KC) by the claimant in a claim for losses arising from foreign exchange trading.
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Administrative & Public Law
Eleanor has received instructions from financial services regulators, including with Robert Miles KC, and with Jonathan Crow KC and Andrew George KC (advising and appearing for the Financial Services Authority in Ford v Financial Services Authority [2012] EWHC 997 (Admin))
Other information
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Career & Appointments
- Trustee of Advocate
- Founding Chair of the Junior Chancery Bar
- Member of the Chancery Bar Association Pro Bono Sub-Committee and Co-ordinator of PILARS (the Personal Insolvency Litigation Advice and Representation Scheme)
- Former member of the Bar Council Pro Bono and Social Responsibility Committee
- Former member of the Chancery Bar Association Equality and Diversity Sub-Committee
- Member of the Commercial Bar Association and the Chancery Bar Association
- Judicial Assistant to Lord Justice Rix, Michaelmas Term 2011
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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
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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)
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Languages
- German
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What the Directories Say
- “Very diligent and thorough in her work, Eleanor is a nice person to work with.” “Her research is excellent and she puts forward good skeleton arguments. She’s very responsive and communicative.” “A very strong junior barrister, who is bright and quick on her feet.” (Chambers and Partners UK, Chancery: Commercial 2024)
- 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; Chambers and Partners Global, Dispute Resolution: Commercial Chancery 2023).
- “Extremely knowledgeable and provides a consistently high service” (Chambers and Partners Global, Dispute Resolution: Commercial Chancery 2022).
- 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 “provides a consistently high-quality service” (Chambers and Partners UK, Chancery: Commercial 2021).
- Eleanor was recommended by Legal 500 in 2017 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”.