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Biography

Michael has more than 30 years experience in European Antitrust law with Allen & Overy. He has represented a large number of corporations from the US, Japan and Brazil and other international clients before the European Commission in merger control, cartel and unilateral conduct cases. He acted for Sun Microsystems in their complaint against Microsoft leading to one of the most complex antitrust cases ever brought by the Commission. He has been involved in over 20 of the major cartel cases brought by the Commission including one of the first cases on cartel settlements. He was President of the International Bar Association from 2013 until 2015 and past Chair of the IBA Antitrust Committee.