Michael Gouriet

Michael is a partner in the divorce and family team.

Michael has been an integral member of the market leading divorce and family team at Withers for over 30 years. He is also a member of the Partnership Board.

Michael advises on all aspects of family law (including pre- and post-nuptial agreements) with particular emphasis on the resolution of financial issues for wealthy individuals whether married or unmarried and often with international interests. Michael has acted in numerous divorce cases involving trusts and businesses. Michael also has extensive experience of children law matters, including international relocation.

His breadth of work involves close liaison with many other specialist practice areas at Withers including the contentious trusts and estates team and the wealth planning teams in London, US, Switzerland and Asia (often stress-testing wealth holding structures and advising families on succession).

Michael's wide variety of clients (from UK, Europe, US, Middle East and Russia) include business owners and entrepreneurs, financiers and other city professionals, landowners, sports and music stars, politicians, and their spouses/partners.

Michael provides expert media commentary on family law issues, and he has chaired and lectured at various family law conferences in England and abroad.

Michael is a certified family law arbitrator, and a trained collaborative lawyer.