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Eleanor has 25 years’ experience advising on a range of international projects of unusual complexity and/or national importance across the roads, rail, maritime, aviation and leisure sectors. She has deep expertise in developing and procuring public/private partnering and funding arrangements on matters which are often innovative, high-profile and of major significance.

She has advised international public bodies on a wide range of vessel ownership structures, the procurement of newbuild vessels, maritime services requirements, contracts for new roads and railways, and harbour arrangements.

She was nominated Scotland’s “Transport Lawyer of the Year” by Legal 500 in November 2024 is recognised in the legal directories’ “Hall of Fame” for her maritime / transport work. She sits on the Shadow Board for the UK’s National Shipbuilding Office Shipbuilding Enterprise for Growth.

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    "Eleanor provided effective and essential leadership to a successful project."
    Chambers, 2025
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    "She is a very good transport lawyer who is very pragmatic."
    Chambers, 2025
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    "She is an exceptionally good lawyer who does a wide array of work in the shipping space."
    Chambers, 2024

Relevant experience

  • The Commissioners for Northern Lights on the procurement of a new-build vessel, on drydocking and refit, and on long-term helicopter services.
  • Scottish Ministers on the publicly-funded Clyde & Hebrides ferry services (estimated at £3.7bn over 10 years).
  • Private sector on maritime defence procurements. 
  • Scottish Ministers on the A9 Dualling Programme (c.£3bn), and the PPP/NPD procurements of the M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements (c.£600m), AWPR (c.£745m) and the M80 Stepps to Haggs DBFO (c.£300m).
  • Britoil plc on the contractual arrangements in respect of the FPSO “Petrojarl Foinaven”. 
  • On the procurement of the Glasgow Subway Modernisation Project. 
  • On a range of transportation and shipping contracts, harbour access agreements, stevedoring and storage / warehousing services.
  • Leisure services providers on multiple outsourcing contracts and agency structures. 
  • Various harbour authorities on processes for harbour development, statutory obligations around port security, contracts for marine and towage services, and port / marina access terms & conditions
  • On the statutory transfer of a franchised rail service back to central government.
  • Sevan Marine ASA on multiple charterparties, services agreements and IP licences for their patented circular FPSOs.

Education

  • 1999 – Diploma in Legal Practice, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
  • 1998 - Law, LLB, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
  • 1994 - BA (Hons) Theology, University of Durham, Durham