Avocats en Commercial Litigation

Michele Gavin-Rizzuto

Michele is a Senior Associate in the dispute resolution team in Kennedys’ Bermuda office specialising in commercial litigation.

Kennedys

Michele Johnson

Michele Johnson, Global Chair of the Litigation & Trial Department, is consistently recognized as a leading national trial lawyer. Michele represents industry-leading companies, officers and directors, special committees, and financial institutions in connection with: Securities class actions Shareholder derivative litigation Mergers and acquisitions litigation Battles for corporate control Fiduciary duty cases Proxy contests SEC enforcement actions Internal investigations Other complex, high-exposure litigation Michele’s recent representations include securities class action trials, special committee engagements in controlling stockholder transactions, multi-jurisdictional litigation arising out of solicited and hostile takeover attempts, and investigations and litigation on behalf of special committees and boards of directors related to public company crises. She has significant trial experience involving securities, contract, product liability, unfair business practices, intellectual property, tax, and insurance bad faith trials. Michele is a former member of Latham’s Executive Committee and the former Managing Partner of the Orange County office. She has served on the firm’s Pro Bono and Associates Committees as well. She serves on the boards of the Georgetown University Law Center, Berkeley Center for Law and Business, and Orange County Bar Foundation’s Project Youth, is a member of the American Bar Association’s Corporate Laws Committee, and is past president of the Orange County chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.

Latham & Watkins

Michelle Di Gioia

Michelle is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Team and a member of the Board. She has a wealth of experience across commercial disputes, property litigation and health and safety issues and acts for a range of clients from businesses, residential/commercial landlords to individuals. Commercial Disputes Experience Michelle advises in a variety of matters from contractual disputes, professional negligence, partnership/shareholder disputes, insolvency, injunctions and arbitration. Property Disputes Experience Michelle advises both landlords and tenants in respect of rent arrears, disrepair, dilapidations, forfeiture, restrictive covenants and obtaining possession. In addition Michelle advises property developers and has acted in respect of disputes arising out of overage agreements. Health and Safety Experience Michelle has significant strength in health and safety in relation to compliance, risk management and litigation advice. She has handled major instructions primarily drawn from the manufacturing and construction sectors relating to the defence of prosecutions and regulatory investigations. Her breadth of regulatory experience spans to matters such as health and safety, environmental and trading standards. Michelle provides proactive advice on policies and systems and reactive advice involving damage limitation and reputation management.

Gardner Leader LLP

Michelle Treadwell Briggs

Partner

Goodwin

Miguel Galvez

Partner

Quisumbing Torres

Miguel Saguier

Senior Associate

Ferrere

Miguel Santos Almeida

Partner in the Litigation & Arbitration and Sports Law departments.

Sérvulo & Associados

Mike Burns

Mike trained with Withers and on qualification in 1993 joined specialist London shipping firm More Fisher Brown. Mike joined Weightmans as a partner in May 2006. Mike’s expertise includes the carriage of goods by sea, charterparty and bill of lading claims, hull and P& insurance, cargo recoveries, freight liability, multimodal transit, CMR and yacht claims. Mike has a related non-contentious practice including vessel sale and purchase and drafting contracts of carriage. Mike is ranked in The Legal 500 2015 as a 'Leading Individual'.

Weightmans LLP

Mike Edwards

Of Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Mike Lockton

Mike is a Principal Associate who specialises in Asset-Based Lending based in our London office. Following qualification into Hammonds' (now Squire Patton Boggs) ABL Litigation team in 2009, Mike has been advising clients across the invoice finance and alternative lending sectors ever since, most recently having headed up Francis Wilks and Jones' Banking and Finance offering, before joining Shoosmiths' expanding team in March 2023. The instructions Mike receives vary broadly from standard commercial debt recoveries to guarantor actions to fraud-based claims in both the civil and insolvency courts. Although Mike works mainly on contentious issues, he also advises his client base on various operational aspects of their facilities where they seek to mitigate risk, including but not limited to carrying out supply contract reviews and assisting with the variation of facility and security documentation. In addition, as a lot of his instructions are linked to insolvency events, Mike is well-known amongst a number of the key insolvency practitioner contacts in the ABL industry. Mike's expertise includes: advising financiers on enforcement action against clients or former clients and any associated guarantors, warrantors and / or indemnifiers. undertaking large scale collect-outs of sales ledgers on behalf of either financiers or insolvent businesses. advising on and dealing with complex commercial debt recovery claims pursuant to supply contracts - either B2B or on behalf of invoice financiers. advising on and preparing bespoke facility and security documentation to assist with the management of risk in relation to ongoing facilities, including supply contract reviews and facility variations, including, where necessary advising upon any managed "exit plan" for distressed or defaulting businesses. Specialist areas include: asset based lending, invoice finance, fraud, commercial litigation, trade finance, supply chain finance, insolvency and restructuring and debt recovery.

Shoosmiths LLP

Mike Lockton

Mike is a Principal Associate who specialises in Asset-Based Lending based in our London office. Following qualification into Hammonds' (now Squire Patton Boggs) ABL Litigation team in 2009, Mike has been advising clients across the invoice finance and alternative lending sectors ever since, most recently having headed up Francis Wilks and Jones' Banking and Finance offering, before joining Shoosmiths' expanding team in March 2023. The instructions Mike receives vary broadly from standard commercial debt recoveries to guarantor actions to fraud-based claims in both the civil and insolvency courts. Although Mike works mainly on contentious issues, he also advises his client base on various operational aspects of their facilities where they seek to mitigate risk, including but not limited to carrying out supply contract reviews and assisting with the variation of facility and security documentation. In addition, as a lot of his instructions are linked to insolvency events, Mike is well-known amongst a number of the key insolvency practitioner contacts in the ABL industry. Mike's expertise includes: advising financiers on enforcement action against clients or former clients and any associated guarantors, warrantors and / or indemnifiers. undertaking large scale collect-outs of sales ledgers on behalf of either financiers or insolvent businesses. advising on and dealing with complex commercial debt recovery claims pursuant to supply contracts - either B2B or on behalf of invoice financiers. advising on and preparing bespoke facility and security documentation to assist with the management of risk in relation to ongoing facilities, including supply contract reviews and facility variations, including, where necessary advising upon any managed "exit plan" for distressed or defaulting businesses. Specialist areas include: asset based lending, invoice finance, fraud, commercial litigation, trade finance, supply chain finance, insolvency and restructuring and debt recovery.

Shoosmiths

Mike Terry

Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP

Mikko Elonheimo

Partner

Krogerus

Milan Lazić

Senior Partner

Karanovic & Partners o.a.d.

Miles Ruthberg

Miles Ruthberg is Chair of the New York Litigation & Trial Department. Mr. Ruthberg has been a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, global Chair of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department, and Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation & Professional Liability Practice. He has successfully represented many major companies in their most important litigation, including securities law, class actions and complex commercial disputes with a particular emphasis on accounting issues.

Latham & Watkins

Mileva González

Associate

Pérez Correa González

Millan Maurer

Attorney

Offit Kurman

Mindy Sooter

Partner Partner-in-Charge, Denver Office

WilmerHale

Mingle Li

Partner

Hylands Law Firm

Mioara Grecu

Senior Associate

Biris Goran SPARL

Miriam Manber

Miriam is a litigator who handles commercial disputes on behalf of a diverse client base, ranging from individuals to public agencies and multinational corporations. With experience in state and federal courts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations, she has won numerous favorable outcomes, including on dispositive motions, in jury and bench trials, and on appeal. Miriam was a member of the team that represented Syngenta last year in an arbitration seeking coverage for thousands of tort lawsuits alleging defects arising from exposure to an herbicide, and was on the trial team that secured a win for Syngenta over its primary insurer, Zurich American Insurance Company. In the last year, she has represented the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its affiliate agencies in several high-profile matters, including in a multi-million dollar trial challenging the New York City Subway’s speed policy.

Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP

Mirjam Schorr

Mirjam is an English and German qualified insurance lawyer and litigator with over 20 years’ experience in conducting and resolving complex disputes, many of which have cross-border elements. Her key areas of expertise are insurance/reinsurance, product liability, construction and general commercial disputes. In addition to her contentious work, Mirjam frequently advises insurers on policy coverage under both English and German law. She also has extensive experience of drafting commercial agreements and standard terms. Mirjam is bilingual (German/English) and also speaks conversational Portuguese.

Keystone Law

Misbah Fazalbhoy

Associate

MRP Advisory LLC

Mitchell Hurley

Mitch Hurley is a trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience litigating complex commercial, bankruptcy, corporate and securities disputes. He regularly represents investment funds, fund professionals and portfolio companies, public companies and executives in state and federal court litigation and arbitrations, as well as debtors, creditors’ committees, bondholders, ad hoc groups and others in bankruptcy proceedings. To learn more about Mitch, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/mitchell-p-hurley.html

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