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Elizabeth (Ellie) Gibbison is a Partner in the Private Wealth team, based in Weightmans Newcastle office.

Ellie is proud of working and leading within award winning teams, her collaborative ethos, and unwavering commitment to client service (spanning across family and friend circles, and for whole lifetimes), and technical excellence. She feels it is an honour to work with all manner of clients to protect the things they love for those they hold dearest. This spans from those famous, such as professional football players and fashion designers, through to those who are ultra high net worth eminent business people and those who are elderly and vulnerable and everything in between. Ellie is also proud of the wider private client community she is privileged to be part of at a time where much change is afoot in the private wealth space which she is lucky to be at the fore of as national co-Chair of the Private Client and Estates Committee at The Law Society.

Ellie prides herself, too, on working closely with clients’ wider advisory teams, internally (such as within our corporate team) and externally (including financial planners, accountants, and land agents) to deliver holistic, forward-thinking wealth and succession planning solutions.

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  • Elizabeth Gibbison an exceptional lawyer whose knowledge is outstanding, with the ability to put clients at ease with her caring nature.

    Legal 500, 2025

  • My main point of contact is Elizabeth Gibbison and I would recommend her highly. She cares very much about helping her clients and finding them a solution that works on all levels, practical, emotional and professional.

    Legal 500, 2025

  • I have always found Elizabeth to be very knowledgeable, proactive and approachable. She explains everything carefully, ensuring her advice has been understood.

    Legal 500, 2025

  • Elizabeth provides all-round excellent service. She goes above and beyond what is expected. She has a lovely personality and is professional and caring.

    Chambers HNW

Experience and noteable cases:

Ellie brings a wealth of experience from roles at leading regional and national firms. Her career has been defined by her ability to handle high-value, high-stakes matters with precision and care. She has administered estates valued in excess of £15million, advised on bespoke succession strategies for clients with wealth exceeding £40million, and supported vulnerable individuals through estate planning and nuanced Court of Protection processes.

Her recent career highlights include:

  • Leading the administration of a complex landed estate with cross-border interests and business continuity planning
  • Recently advising a North East based business owner ahead of the sale of a £30million+ business on succession planning and establishing and advising on appropriate trust structures to facilitate this.
  • Advising on succession planning for a high-profile entrepreneur with international assets to coincide with complex prenuptial agreement.
  • Supporting a person subject to a DOLS to complete estate planning.
  • Providing succession planning advice to a high-net-worth farmer going through a divorce in later life.
  • Advising on cryogenics and dovetailing estate planning advice, including the use of trust structures and other mechanisms, to ensure the client’s wishes may be carried out with future developments in this area.
  • Advising professional deputies, attorneys and trustees in managing their roles, to ensure their duties, and roles, are fulfilled.
  • Advising those with vulnerable or disabled loved ones in managing assets for those persons, including setting up a Disabled Person’s Interest trust in a matter where a client had pension interests, business interests and personal wealth where Inheritance Tax planning was required.
  • Unwinding unsuitable “family protection trusts” and restructuring legacy arrangements to better serve clients’ long-term goals.
  • Delivering national training and webinars, chairing the Law Society’s annual Private Client Conference, and contributing to consultations and commentary around legal reform on a range of topics.
  • Advising client, while loved one was were going through gender reassignment, with their estate planning.
  • Administering a high net worth estate with a 1975 Act claim arising and acting for the executors in the matter, concerning a farming family with complex lifetime estate planning in place.
  • Dealing with the establishment of a high value personal injury trust and ongoing advice to the Trustees regarding the administration and reporting of the same.

Ellie Gibbison is a nationally recognised private client solicitor, now joining Weightmans, where she brings a wealth of experience in advising individuals and families on complex estate, tax, and succession matters. She has been in the private client advisory space for 12 years, and she qualified as a solicitor in 2015 following postgraduate legal training at the University of Law and holds both an MJur and LLB (Hons) from Durham University. Ellie is a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Ellie’s practice is defined by her ability to deliver technically sophisticated, emotionally intelligent advice to clients navigating some of life’s most personal and complex decisions. She advises high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, business families, and high-profile figures across sport, media, and entertainment on all aspects of estate, tax, and succession planning. Her work often involves cross-border assets, sensitive family dynamics, and multi-generational wealth preservation.

Ackowledgements:

Chambers HNW Up and Coming 3 years ranked: Private Wealth Law
Northern Law Awards 2023, where Ellie’s team won Private Client Team of the Year.
Ellie is recognised in Chambers High Net Worth as “an exceptional lawyer in her field,” praised for her intelligence, warmth, and ability to deliver clear, strategic advice in emotionally charged situations.

Ellie is on the media go to group for The Law Society working with their press team where she has radio opportunities etc. She is also a member of HMCTS national user group and HMRC Trusts and Estates Advisory Group.

Ellie is currently a National co-Chair of The Law Society’s Private Client and Estates Committee.

She is also a member of HMRC Trusts and Estates Advisory Group, as well as a member of Probate Professional User Group (HMCTs) and STEP North East and Cumbria Committee.