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 also has been lead counsel in numerous international and domestic arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional. 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. Michael 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 and the Association of General Counsel on various topics, including leading the “CLO/GC Roundtable Discussion of Privilege” in 2023, “Morals and Management” in 2024 and moderating the panel for “Clarity or chaos? What a new federal government is expected to provide” in May 2025. Michael is a member of the Canadian Advisory Board for the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution and is also involved with TerraLex, including presenting on third party dispute funding in 2025.
