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Rachel Toner

Rachel Toner

UK 2026

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

About

Provided by Carson McDowell

Practice Areas

Commercial

Career

Rachel is a Senior Associate within the Commercial team at Carson McDowell. Having graduated from Queen’s University with an honours degree in law, Rachel subsequently obtained a Masters in Human Rights Law and then gained her professional qualification at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies in 2015.

Prior to joining Carson McDowell, Rachel practiced in another commercial law firm, working on a diverse case load comprising of commercial, corporate and charity law matters.

Rachel regularly advises both public and private sector clients on a spectrum of commercial matters, from general commercial contracts, terms and conditions of business, specialist industry specific contracts such as manufacturing or franchise agreements to advice on data protection and intellectual property matters.

In addition, Rachel has in-depth knowledge of advising entities within the third sector having advised charity trustees on a range of charity law matters from registration, group structure, amendments to governing documents, serious incident reporting, collaboration agreements and in respect of those statutory, contractual, regulatory and fiduciary duties of trustees. Rachel has also acted in a number of charity mergers of varying forms and scale. Presently, Rachel is a trustee of Victim Support Northern Ireland.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Commercial Contracts - UK-wide

Star Associate
Star Associates

Individual Editorial

Rachel Toner of Carson McDowell is a skilled practitioner who predominantly negotiates service and distribution agreements and assists with commercial transactions.

Charities - Northern Ireland

Associate to watch
Associates to watch

Individual Editorial

Rachel Toner is a senior associate at Carson McDowell's team. She advises a wide range of charities on governance, employment and merger related matters.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Rachel is excellent to work with and very easy to engage. She is extremely competent and tenacious in her dealings, and is confident in achieving our business objectives.

    Commercial ContractsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Rachel's knowledgeable and personable approach is very impressive.

    Commercial ContractsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Rachel's advice and communication has been helpful in translating requests.

    Commercial ContractsChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Rachel has a breadth and depth of understanding of charity and company law matters which enables her to provide sophisticated advice which is tailored to our particular legal issues.

    CharitiesChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Rachel has given us excellent advice and is very quick and practical in her responses.

    CharitiesChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Rachel is responsive and comes back when she said she will and I really commend that about her. She is also one of the most engaging people I've met with.

    CharitiesChambers Guide to the Legal Profession

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