Michael advises public and private companies, and public sector bodies on a broad range of corporate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, buy-outs, and equity fundraisings. He has particular experience in the real estate, financial services, healthcare, and tech sectors.

Michael's experience includes advising: 

• The shareholders of Atlantic House Holdings Limited on its c.£150m sale to NY listed WisdomTree 

• Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield on the acquisition of a 25% stake in St James Quarter, Edinburgh alongside Dutch pension investor APG 

• International Distribution Services, the owner of Royal Mail, on the acquisition of a 49% stake in Collect+, alongside majority owner PayPoint plc 

• Landsec on the purchase of its 92% stake in the Liverpool One shopping centre 

• Quintain (the UK developer backed by Lone Star) on the disposal of two BTR schemes totalling 490 homes to funds managed by KKR 

• The founding shareholders of TC Group, the top 20 accountancy firm, on its strategic investment from Inflexion 

• TC Group on numerous acquisitions throughout the UK 

• The UK arm of the deVere Group on its strategic partnership with Fidelius Group 

• UK charity Brainkind on the acquisition of three neurological care centres from Sue Ryder 

• The shareholders of Breathe Energy on its disposal to Imtech (a joint venture between EDF and Dalkia) 

• Mobeus Private Equity on the management buyout of Kinneir Dufort 

• St. James's Place on numerous acquisitions including the acquisition of its cornerstone international wealth management business in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai and the acquisition of the Rowan Dartington Group 

• Southampton NHS Foundation Trust on the disposal of the Complete Fertility Centre to Virtus Health 

• The shareholders of The Serviced Apartment Company on its disposal to Oaktree Capital 

• Ultraleap on a number of fundraising rounds, including on its oversubscribed $82m Series D fundraising and its acquisition of Silicon Valley based Leap Motion