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Michelle Bradfield has more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer, with a focus on complex international arbitration often involving public international law. She advises and represents states and private entities on a wide array of matters, including investment treaty arbitration, international commercial arbitration, and boundary and maritime disputes.

Michelle has significant experience in investor-state arbitration and commercial arbitration. She is regularly involved in "bet-the-company" disputes and has worked for numerous FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 companies in disputes around the globe, including in the United States, Australia, India, Sudan, China, Spain, Brazil, Nigeria, and the United Arab Emirates. Additionally, she has worked for many States, including Australia, Malaysia, Croatia, Turkey, Barbados, Oman, China and sovereign wealth funds.

She lectures on boundary disputes and investment treaty arbitrations at King's College London and has published extensively on these subjects. Prior to working in London, Michelle was a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.

Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and Queensland, Australia (solicitor)

University of Cambridge (LL.M. 2004; British Chevening-Cambridge Australia Trust Scholarship); Queensland University of Technology (LL.B. 2001; Tom Cain Trophy for Outstanding Achievement; President, Law Society; Sole student representative on the Law Faculty Governing Board; B.Bus. 2001; Dean's List for Highest Achievers; Scholarship to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, International Masters of Business 2000)