Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Michael is a Partner of Seyfarth Shaw LLP, a Director of Resimax Group Capital, a real estate investment management firm and a Director of Titan Fund Management Services, a fund management firm. Michael's legal work achievements include the following: • Defended claims to a total value of over $80m against a major retail bank, with nil being awarded against the bank or paid in settlements in all legal actions • Advised 7 of the ASX20 companies on solving major commercial challenges and handling complex litigation • Advised on and helped execute a wholesale workforce restructure and incentive arrangements post company sale to private equity, which materially contributed to increased EBITDA within 24 months • Advised Australia’s leading telecommunications company in its establishment of a new business providing technology solutions that connect healthcare providers with patients and each other • Devised and executed a strategy for a major retail bank to terminate its industrial award and an enterprise agreement applicable to senior staff, resulting in major flexibility to manage its country wide operations • Enforced a senior executive restraint of trade on behalf of a national accounting firm, resulting in recovery of millions in direct losses plus legal costs, and signalling to other employed accountants that restraints of trade would be enforced, with strong commercial benefit to the overall group • Advised one of Australia's leading construction companies on the negotiation and approval of its industrial arrangements, critical to putting in place a cost competitive framework nationally Described by clients as achieving “extraordinary results”: Asia Pacific Legal 500 2014. Michael is valued for his "exceptional service, outstanding quality and well-developed ability to make the complex simple": Chambers Asia Pacific 2014. Michael is recognised as a leading Australian lawyer in peer publications Chambers Global, Asia-Pacific Legal 500, Doyle’s Guide and the Australian Financial Review Best Lawyers. Michael was voted by his peers and recognised by Best Lawyers as 2023 Lawyer of the Year in the category of Employee Benefits.