Corporate lawyers

Michael Gilligan

Partner, Corporate

Sterlington PLLC

Michael Killourhy

Partner

Ogier

Michael King

Corporate Partner

Latham & Watkins

Michael Lampert

Ropes & Gray LLP

Michael Lips

Michael Lips is partner and head of Pestalozzi's Real Estate and Environment practice. He has long-standing experience in real estate, environmental and public procurement law. For years, he has been working exclusively in this field, handling numerous transactions, contracts, public procurement and regulatory matters. He frequently represents clients before Swiss courts.

Pestalozzi

Michael Malfettone

Michael Malfettone counsels entities across the energy transition economy, working at the junction of private equity and sustainable infrastructure to match capital sources and deployment strategies to business goals and shape transaction frameworks. He helps clients evaluate pathways for deals, surface opportunities and design bespoke structures that advance growth and investment objectives. The core of Michael’s work spans corporate acquisitions, growth capital and control equity investments, project M&A, joint ventures and hybrid equity financings. Engagements range from infrastructure funds deploying capital through various investment strategies, to developers acquiring renewable portfolios, to clean technology platforms, equipment manufacturers and infrastructure service providers seeking scale through business expansion or strategic investment.

Sheppard

Michael Orlando

With over 20 years of experience at the intersection of intellectual property and technology transactions, Michael Orlando is a strategic counselor to innovators and enterprises navigating complex technology and IP challenges. He is Team Leader of the firm's Technology Transactions Team, and a member of the Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences and Healthcare teams. Michael also co-leads the firm’s Digital Health & Innovation team and is the host of Sheppard’s Health-e Law podcast. Michael founded a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business prior to entering private practice, and completed an in-house secondment at a publicly-traded biotechnology company. This real-world experience as both a tech entrepreneur and in-house counsel gives him unique insight to understand his clients' business objectives and informs his practical, business-oriented approach to solving a wide variety of technology issues. Michael helps cutting-edge technology companies and innovators develop, commercialize, and procure technology, including in connection with licensing, outsourcing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, venture financing, collaborations, strategic partnerships and commercial agreements. His cross-disciplinary expertise in both intellectual property and corporate transactions allows him to leverage both practice areas when advising his clients. Michael's legal practice spans multiple industries, including high-tech, biotechnology/pharmaceuticals, medical devices, digital health and healthcare IT, data centers, energy, aerospace, and automotive technologies, including electric, autonomous and connected vehicle technologies.

Sheppard

Michael Suppappola

Mike Suppappola is co-head of Proskauer's Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions Group and a partner in the Private Funds Group. Named as a 2025 Private Equity MVP in Law360, Mike is widely recognized in the private funds industry for his extensive experience in representing secondary fund managers in connection with all aspects of their business, including fund formation, secondary transactions (including GP-led liquidity processes, private tender offers, tail-end sales and preferred equity transactions), primary investments and co-investments. He also advises a broad spectrum of fund sponsors who pursue a variety of strategies and sectors, including private credit, distressed and special situations, buyout, structured capital, growth equity, venture capital, real estate and funds-of-funds. After the fundraising period, Mike continues to serve as a trusted adviser throughout the lifespan of a fund, with a focus on general partner and management company internal governance and day-to-day operational issues. An active member of the private funds community, Mike is frequently invited to lecture at industry events on business and regulatory topics.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Michael Suter

Attorney-at-Law, Notary, Certified Specialist SBA Inheritance Law, Partner

Bratschi Ltd

Michael Tan

Partner Michael has more than 20 years of experience advising international companies’ operation in and with China. He heads the firm's TMC practice for China. Besides his expertise regarding the general corporate and IT regulatory matters, he has profound experience in consumer related business. Michael holds CIPP/E certification as granted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). At the same time, he quite often publishes articles and frequently comments on IT, data/privacy protection and consumer related legal topics. Michael further has profound experience advising industrial clients in various sectors on corporate matters, covering all legal aspects of a typical investment deal like market entry and joint ventures, M&A restructuring and exit. Michael is National Vice Chair of the Legal & Competition Working Group under the European Chamber of Commerce. He also serves as an arbitrator of the Shanghai International Arbitration Center.

Winston Taylor

Michael V. Mitrione

Gunster

Michael Vogel

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Michaela Jesson

Consultant

Ogier

Michał Bobrzyński

Local Partner

Greenberg Traurig Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokinski Sp. k

Michel C. Narganes

Michel Narganes is a partner in Manatt’s ­­­­­San Francisco and Boston offices. She has guided venture-backed startups and other, established clients—including various technology companies, media and gaming ventures, financial institutions, health care companies and others—through licensing, technology and commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financing matters, and developer and publisher agreements for more than 15 years. Michel also works with disruptors in the growing cryptocurrency space with respect to blockchain-based technologies and transactions in the Web3 ecosystem. She was an early mover in this area, representing the platform that facilitated the highly publicized sale of an American digital artist’s nonfungible token (NFT) artwork in the first digital auction held by one of the largest global auction houses. She is sought after for her business-minded counsel on the convergence of cryptocurrency with other emerging industries, including the rise of tokenization in gaming and transactions in the nascent metaverse. Before joining Manatt, Michel served as in-house counsel at a large technology company, where she played a key role in the growth of global strategic partnerships, M&A and corporate compliance operations. Michel is also an entrepreneur, having founded her own legal services firm, providing her firsthand experience tackling the gamut of challenges emerging companies face throughout their life cycles.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Michelle Chan

I'm a technology, telecoms and media lawyer, providing strategic, corporate and commercial advice to major players in the Asia Pacific region. I am based in London and I am Of Counsel in our Corporate & Commercial team. With over 20 years' experience on my side, I work on commercial, corporate and regulatory matters in the technology, media and telecoms sectors across Asia. I also have considerable experience advising clients on data protection issues and non-contentious IP projects, including helping our clients with data protection investigations, in conjunction with Bird & Bird's investigation and dispute practice. In recent years, I've advised on projects covering disruptive technologies such as Big Data, IoT, online payments services and FinTech. In media, I have provided advice to leading European football clubs, digital media rights holders, channel providers (traditional and online) and game developers on a range of legal matters including online streaming, capital raising and regulation. I was seconded to the APAC headquarters of Alcatel-Lucent (now part of Nokia) in Shanghai for a year. I am dual qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales and Hong Kong. I am fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Bird & Bird

Michelle Watson Bunn

Managing Associate

Ogier

Miguel Angel Moisés Flores

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig, S.C.

Miguel Barredo

Clifford Chance

Mike Nedzbala

Partner and co-head of the firm’s structured finance and securitization practice

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Mikhel Schecter

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Mikko Ahonen

Mikko Ahonen is the managing partner in Bird & Bird Helsinki office. He has extensive experience advising on a wide range of corporate, M&A and real estate transactions. Specialising in mergers & acquisitions, corporate and securities law work and real estate transactions, his practice consists of advising both domestic and international clients in their transactional and corporate needs. He regularly advises clients with public tender offers, private equity transactions, complex cross-border transactions, creation of incentive plans for the management and employees, and complex internal corporate restructurings, among others. Mikko is also one of the leading experts in warranty and indemnity insurances. He advises both the underwriters as the subscribers on all stages of the process from the underwriting up to the end of the claims process. This provides Bird & Bird with a unique access to data from wide range of transactions.

Bird & Bird

Miriam Figueroa

Managing Partner; Regional Co-Leader for DLA Piper's US-LatAm Practice Group, Energy / Infrastructure / P3

DLA Piper Puerto Rico

Miriam Smyth

Senior Associate

Appleby