Michael acts on a broad range of matters across multiple industries and jurisdictions. Michael is a trusted adviser to corporate and finance clients and to government clients, principally on government project development and infrastructure procurement (including procured as PPPs) and privatisations (including electricity (generation (and associated mines), transmission, distribution and retail), freight rail, passenger rail, airports, ports, waste, water, and telecommunications).
Michael provides project development and finance, commercial, corporate (including JV, FDI, M&A, debt and equity funding), construction and engineering, approvals and regulatory advice, across multiple industries and jurisdictions with particular expertise in developing major projects, including across the following industries: energy, mining and natural resources, oil and gas (including LNG), ports, rail, transport and logistics, steel, water and waste).
In the area of utilities (energy, waste and water), Michael acts for corporate, financier and government clients in relation to the development, operation (including fuel supply) and regulation of energy assets, including power stations (bagasse, biomass, coal, gas, diesel, dual fuel (diesel and gas), hydro and pumped storage, solar, tidal, wind, waste from energy), transmission and distribution infrastructure, acts for participants across the water industry on water treatment, desalination and waste water treatment (municipal, power plant and mine), bio-solid treatment projects (all with related power supply), privatisations, bulk water supply, bore water extraction rights, advice to primary producers (cotton and wheat) and regulatory advice and acts for participants across the waste industry including on MSW, C&I and C&D processing, waste to energy, green / organic processing and composting, landfill developments (and associated methane collection), hazardous waste storage and disposal (including Class IV and V), hospital / medical waste disposal, MRFs, waste handling (including transfer) developments, transportation and shipment, M&A (including privatisation), acquisition and project finance, environmental and planning advice, and product sales, including recyclables, compost and RDF.
