Biography
Michael is a Partner in the Complex Commercial Litigation Department and the Government Contracts and Export Controls Group. His practice focuses on government contracts, construction, privatization, and international procurement law.

Michael has broad experience in counseling large and small supply, service, and construction clients on a variety of federal, state, local, and international government contract issues; assisting contractors and state and federal agencies in the privatization of government activities including those relating to water and wastewater; environmental remediation; military housing; and roads, bridges, and highways; conducting due diligence investigations in connection with corporate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; counseling clients on issues relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; handling bid protests before the U.S. General Accounting Office, state, and federal courts; undertaking internal investigations and defending clients in matters relating to ethics matters, and civil and criminal false claims and fraud; and preparing and litigating claims both domestically and abroad, especially in the areas of changes, defective pricing, defective specifications, environmental cleanup contracting, delay and disruption, and differing site conditions. In recent years, Michael has assisted in preparing and prosecuting some of the largest government contract claims ever filed against the U.S. Government. He also has assisted in drafting and negotiating some of the largest federal, state, and local government privatization agreements.

Michael is Managing Partner of the Washington, DC, office.