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Eleanor Metcalf

Work Department
Private client.
Position
Eleanor advises on estate and tax-planning for UK and non-UK domiciled individuals, trusts and trustees and landed estates. She also advises charities and charity trustees on all aspects of charity law and trust law, including taxation, tax efficient charitable giving and trading.
Eleanor advises on tax efficient methods of holding and passing down wealth to the next generations through the drafting of Wills and family trusts, advising on and involved in the day-to-day administration of varied types of assets and holding structures, restructuring as and where necessary to ensure wealth protection and the mitigation of taxation.
Career
Eleanor trained at Wedlake Bell and qualified as a solicitor in 1992, becoming a Partner in 2003 and was Head of the Private Client Team from 2007 – 2016.
Memberships
Eleanor is a member of the Law Society’s Private Client Section, the Charity Law Association and the Historic Houses Association.
Education
University College, London (1988 LLB Hons 2:1); College of Law, London (1989).
Leisure
Skiing, sailing, swimming, film, reading.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Residential property
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms