Michael’s team specialises in shareholder and business separation disputes including corporate oppression actions, partnership and trust litigation across Australia. A key focus of the team’s practice is complex intra-family and intergenerational family enterprise disputes.

Michael also has significant experience in general contract and commercial disputes, including fraud and trade practices matters and drafting, realising and enforcing securities for banks/ lenders.

Michael regularly advises regarding insolvency and restructuring matters and conducts insolvency litigation, including insolvent trading and director duty claims, claims arising from phoenix transactions/ asset stripping in addition to running public examinations. He also has experience in representing examinees at ASIC examinations.

Michael regularly provides professional development training and seminars to clients, major accounting and industry bodies and professional services firms.