Martyn Gowar is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, based in its
Martyn has been ranked by Spears Wealth Magazine in the Top Five of their Top 25 Tax and Trust Solicitors in London. He has also been named ‘Private Client Lawyer of the Year’ at the 2010 CityWealth Magic Circle Awards. Described as a ‘senior statesman’ by Chambers UK 2011, Martyn is a leading name within the private client arena in the UK and is praised as "fantastically experienced". In the PLC Which Lawyer? 2009 directory, Martyn stands alone as the only listed ‘senior figure’. Martyn is an Executive Committee Member of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Chairman of the Succession Sub-Committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Vice President (Europe) of the International Academy of Estate & Trust Law and Chairman of the Estates Business Group, a lobbying and mutual support group comprising 25 of the largest, traditional British landed estates.
Martyn is a regular lecturer and writer on tax and trusts issues. He is a member of The Times Law Panel, is a Member of the International Committee of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP) for whom he writes a monthly column and was editor of the Taxation Section of the Law Society’s Gazette 1979-94.
Representative Experience
- Acted for the executors on the administration of the estate of the Princess of Wales
- Acting for widely spread family members in a valuable international estate dispute
- Structuring trusts and family governance for a family that had sold a business for many billions of dollars
- Succession planning for a successful international business owned by a European family
Education
- Magdalen College, Oxford University, 1967
