Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Private wealth, real estate and construction, retail and leisure, sport, technology, media and telecommunications; employment, pensions and immigration.

Michael was head of the Employment, Pensions and Immigration group but is now on the Ex-Com at Charles Russell Speechlys, and is primarily a corporate employment lawyer with a UK, US, European and Middle Eastern client base. He has extensive expertise in providing commercial advice to reduce exposure to litigation. Michael also has substantial transactional experience with IPO, private equity/venture capital, due diligence/risk analysis and TUPE-related advice on a vast array of M&A and outsourcing deals. Additionally, he advises PLC clients in the negotiation of senior executive service contracts and severance terms as well as the employment hurdles to setting up new ventures. Particular expertise with European restructurings and dispute resolution as well as UK equal pay and gender pay reporting obligations. Experience: acting for a FTSE 100 company with regard to Europe wide restructure in 2019; acting for US and international retail client with harmonisation of global policies including data protection, harassment and whistleblowing procedures; acting for an international tech client to provide TUPE and related collective bargaining advice, avoiding UK wide industrial action; acting for F1 racing team with regard to their international contract, regulatory and dispute resolution needs.

Visiting lecturer to the College of Law; regular speaker at both internal and external conferences; writer and regular contributor to leading employment publications such as 'Personnel Today' and 'Employers Law', as well as national newspapers together with television and radio news interviews.