Michael is a Calgary based senior partner in McMillan’s Dispute Resolution Group, specializing in complex commercial disputes, both international and domestic. Michael has significant expertise in a variety of industries, including in particular construction and engineering as well as energy and natural resources, in addition to a wide variety of contractual and shareholder disputes, fiduciary duty, fraud and breach of confidence cases. Michael has been lead counsel in the Courts across multiple provinces and territories in Canada and has also appeared as instructing counsel before the English High Court of Justice, King’s Bench Division, Commercial Court and the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, an Honourary Overseas Member of The Commercial Bar Association and a member of the London Court of International Arbitration. He has been lead counsel in numerous international and domestic arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional.
He regularly publishes and presents on various commercial arbitration and litigation topics, including in June 2022 the North American Meeting of The Commercial Bar Association in Florence, Italy on the topic “Adducing Additional Evidence When Challenging Arbitral Jurisdictions”. He is also a regular presenter to the Association of Corporate Counsel on various topics, including most recently “Minding Your Ethics While Managing Up” as well as leading the “CLO/GC Roundtable Discussion of Privilege” in 2023.
Updated April 2024
