Michael has over 16 years' experience in construction and infrastructure law. He has acted for a range of industry stakeholders on significant construction and infrastructure projects, as well as assisting them in construction-related disputes.
Michael's practice includes drafting project documentation on a wide range of significant projects in diverse areas such as construction, water infrastructure and social services infrastructure. He has also provided outsourcing and contract management advice to several Australian State Governments and major Local Government organisations.
Michael's major projects expertise includes acting for a major property trust on its ongoing development of one of the largest industrial property estates in the country, as well as acting on a PPP project on behalf of the preferred consortium in a major health infrastructure project. Michael also acted for Copper Mines of Tasmania in successfully settling a complex arbitration over the Mt Lyell copper mine against the commercial imperative of a rapidly falling international metals market.
Michael also has extensive dispute resolution and dispute advisory experience. He has acted for clients in construction and related disputes in arbitration, Supreme and Federal Courts and the High Court, and having worked in Hong Kong for three years, has experience conducting major international arbitration and court disputes.