Banking and finance.

Trained Allen & Overy; qualified 1980; assistant solicitor Allen & Overy 1980-84; assistant and partner Dundas & Wilson 1984-2011; partner Brodies LLP 2011 to date.

Writer to the Signet; Law Society of Scotland; Law Society of England and Wales.

Michael is Brodies' Head of Energy & Infrastructure Finance. He is recognised as the leading project finance lawyer in Scotland, and has extensive experience of renewables, oil & gas, infrastructure, housing and public sector finance. He utilises that experience to identify pragmatic and lasting solutions to difficult financing issues and to assist clients in creating new and innovative debt products.

Michael acts for private and public sector clients, whether providers or recipients of debt, in each of these finance sectors. Recently he has become involved in a number of capital markets financings, including acting for Aberdeen City Council on its market first £370 million-listed and rated bond issue to finance its capital expenditure programme and also for UK issuers in the energy and shipping sectors on Cayman Islands and Norwegian bond markets.

Chatham House Grammar School, Ramsgate; Downing College, Cambridge (1977 MA Law).