Eleanor Gadd

Eleanor specialises in providing bespoke tax, succession and estate planning advice, including complex and high-value estate and trust administration with contentious or international aspects.

Working with business owners, high-net-worth individuals, families and trustees, Eleanor supports clients to draft wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney; create, restructure, and manage trusts; and take advantage of tax planning opportunities to protect assets, mitigate tax, and plan for the future.

Examples of Eleanor’s work include:

• Assisting a client to write a will and create a lifetime settlement to protect and benefit a child with life-limiting disabilities as well as providing for his other children in a tax-efficient manner.
• Assisting an executor to administer an estate with complex offshore elements and family dynamics.
• Restructuring a long-standing dynastic trust following the death of the settlor to limit ongoing tax, and to reflect the current needs and wishes of the potential beneficiaries.
• Assisting two business partners to set up Business Lasting Powers of Attorney to ensure business continuity should one of them lose capacity temporarily or permanently.
• Advising a family-owned trading business on the impact of the 2026 Business Relief reforms, identifying options to mitigate potential future tax and restructure business ownership.
• Advising and drafting the wills of a couple with a blended family to ensure adequate protection for each other on first death, while incorporating trust structures to ensure their respective personal wealth bought to the marriage passed to their respective families on second death.
• Advising on, and drafting, a Deed of Variation for a will to restructure the estate and attract significant Inheritance Tax savings in respect of the residence nil-rate band.