Nancy Shavel Gabel

Partner, Financial Advisor

New York

Nancy is a Partner and Financial Advisor at Evercore Wealth Management and a Managing Director at Evercore Trust Company, N.A., working in a business development role with high net worth families and their outside advisors. She has over 30 years of experience as a trusts and estates attorney and in issues surrounding intergenerational wealth.

Prior to joining Evercore in 2008, Nancy ran the estate planning department at U.S. Trust and headed the firm’s intergenerational wealth planning group. She previously worked at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as a trust and estates lawyer.

Nancy earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Ithaca College and her J.D. from New England School of Law. She is a member of both the New York and Massachusetts Bars.

Nancy received the Gold Award for Woman of the Year in Wealth Management from CityWealth in 2024, and she received the Gold Award for Woman of the Year Leadership – Financial organization – Director in 2021. Nancy has also been ranked in the Chamber’s High Net Worth Guide for the past 6 years.¹ Nancy was a founding member and continues to be a member of the Leadership Committee of the UJA-Federation of New York Lawyers Division Trusts & Estates Group. She also serves as a member of the Professional Advisors Council Committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Planned Giving Professional Advisory Council.  Nancy previously served on the Board of the Irvington Institute for Immunological Research and as co-chair of the Hospital for Special Surgery, Wilson Society Advisory Council. In addition, she also served on the Central Park Conservancy Planned Giving Professional Advisory Council, the Museum of Modern Art’s Planned Giving Advisory Committee, the National YoungArts Foundation, the Parents’ Steering Committee at Colgate University and the Parent’s Committee at Northwestern University.

¹ EWM paid a fee to participate in CityWealth and paid for additional profile space and marketing/publishing rights for both CityWealth and Chambers.