With nearly thirty years in law, investment banking and corporate advisory, Michael has played a leading role in some of Australia's largest and most complex mergers and acquisitions acting for local and offshore clients. Over the course of his career, he has been a partner of Freehills (one of Australia's largest law firms) a Managing Director with Gresham Partners (one of Australia's leading independent corporate advisory firms) an Executive Director with Macquarie Capital and the Executive Chairman of AMB Holdings, the holding company for Angela Bennett's corporate interests. He has also been a director of a number of private and publicly listed companies and was a Member of the Australian Takeovers Panel for nine years.