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Martyn Gowar

Tel:: Work +44 20 7577 6959
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International private client.

Position

Martyn is a partner in the London office of McDermott Will & Emery. He is a member of the firm's international private client group, where his practice covers undertaking domestic, international and estate planning for individuals and their assets; planning for intergenerational business transfers and negotiation of family difficulties and disputes; and providing advice on taxation issues across borders.

Career

Trained Lawrence Graham; qualified 1970. Partner Lawrence Graham 1973-2009; partner McDermott Will & Emery 2009 to present. Chartered Institute of Taxation (associate 1976, fellow 1981). Martyn is on the STEP Journal editorial board for which he writes a monthly column. Martyn is a regular lecturer and writer on tax and trusts issues.

Member

Executive committee member of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies; chair of the succession sub-committee of the Chartered Institute of Taxation; vice-president (Europe) of the International Academy of Estate & Trust Law; International Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC); chair of the Estates Business Group, a lobbying and mutual support group comprising 26 of the largest, traditional British landed estates; The Times Law Panel; international committee of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Education

King's College School, Wimbledon; Magdalen College, Oxford University, 1967.

Leisure

Golf - Hankley Common Golf Club; Rye Golf Club; cricket - MCC: Lord's Taveners.

Practice Areas

Private client; Tax - international

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