Profile
Michael is a corporate and commercial lawyer with considerable experience in a number of fields of advisory and transaction-based legal work and also has significant experience in advising clients in the charity and not-for-profit sector, and the Horticulture industry.
His expertise encompasses corporate advice on directors’ duties, capital management, ASX Listing Rule requirements, corporate governance, company constitutions and general meetings, negotiated acquisitions, schemes of arrangement and private and public fund-raising.
Expertise
Recognition
Accolades
- Best Lawyers in Australia – Recognised for Corporate/Governance Practice (Melbourne, AU) – Since 2020 edition
- Best Lawyers in Australia – Recognised for Mergers and Acquisitions Law (Melbourne, AU) – Since 2021 edition
- The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific – Recommended for Corporate and M&A – 2019 edition
Recent deals and media coverage
- National jumps on mid-tier merger express – Lawyers Weekly, 9 October 2017
- Piper Alderman merges with Norton Gledhill – Australasian Lawyer, 6 October 2017
Memberships
- President, The Orchid Societies Council of Victoria Inc. (OSCOV)
- President, North East Melbourne Orchid Society Inc.
- Associate to the Directors, The Australian Orchid Foundation
Insights
30 March 2020
Significant temporary changes to foreign investment review board (FIRB) requirements
Read More27 March 2020
Members’ meetings in the Age of COVID-19 – Can members’ meetings of charities that are...
Read More15 August 2019
Does your charity operate outside of Australia or partner with organisations who do? What do...
Read More12 December 2018
Reviewing your Not-for-Profit governance arrangements? Here are 6 things you should consider
Read More12 December 2018