Michael is retired from the firm and is now Of Counsel.
For more than thirty years, Michael advised multinational businesses in all aspects of their cross-border competition practices and strategies, and defended those practices in global government investigations and enforcement actions spanning continents. He had successfully helped marshal multiple mergers through trial and appeal in the United States, where uniquely the government must seek court approval to stop a transaction.
Michael taught Comparative International Competition Law at Washington & Lee University School of Law. He served on the University of Tokyo faculty helping teach that institution's summer 2010 International Competition Law curriculum to students from Beijing University, Seoul University and the University of Tokyo. And he has served on the Monterey College of Law faculty, teaching Constitutional Law and Business Organizations.
Michael is among a handful of professionals who helped pioneer a field forming environmental joint ventures melding industry, science, NGO communities and governments. Since its formation and founding, he had represented the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation, hailed in Ted Talks and other forms of global thought leadership as a hallmark of success in this important space. Michael is also an accomplished artist and poet. His paintings and published poetry collections can be found at www.mpac.art.
Michael hosted 156 episodes of the Nota Bene podcast, a series for global business executives addressing regulatory questions impacting multinationals doing business without borders in the world's major economic markets, from its inception in 2018 through 2021.