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Mr Michael Shane
Position
Michael Shane is a highly-regarded international mediator and arbitrator. His career has included being a trial lawyer in private practice and a commercial lawyer in-house in the engineering, design, and construction industry. Since focusing on arbitration and mediation, Michael has been instructed on almost every conceivable sort of commercial dispute and over the years he has built a reputation based on this extensive experience and on his determination and ability to bring disputes to a resolution.
Michael specialises in complex international commercial disputes arising in a wide range of industry sectors and practices including:
- construction and infrastructure
- energy and utilities
- banking
- insurance
- intellectual property and information technology
- general commercial
He has been a full time mediator and arbitrator for 25 years, mediating in excess of 1,500 major disputes in the US, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Africa, and acting as arbitrator in over 150 cases involving complex commercial matters both in the US and internationally.
Career
He has taught basic and advanced mediator training courses for the American Arbitration Association; the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre, Sydney; and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. He has also lectured and written extensively on the subject of ADR.
He was a previously a trial lawyer in California and Hawaii before becoming Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Director of URS Corporation, San Francisco.
Memberships
He is a member of the HKIAC and is on the Hong Kong Government’s list of approved and qualified mediators. He is also an arbitrator on the LCIA database of neutrals and has been appointed to the KLRCA Panel as arbitrator and mediator.
Education
Juris Doctor, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Master of Laws, University College London.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > Mediators
(Mediators)Ranked: Tier 3 (Hall of Fame)Ranked: Tier 1Michael Shane
– Atkin Chambers
Atkin Chambers‘ Michael Shane ‘does the work and speaks with real confidence, and his experience and expertise both as a US and international commercial lawyer set him apart’. Shane mediates a range of commercial, IP and banking disputes, as well as international conflicts involving major governmental infrastructure projects and transnational M&A that frequently involve insurance coverage and suretyship issues.
Michael Shane – Atkin Chambers
Atkin Chambers‘ Michael Shane ‘does the work and speaks with real confidence, and his experience and expertise both as a US and international commercial lawyer set him apart’. Shane mediates a range of commercial, IP and banking disputes, as well as international conflicts involving major governmental infrastructure projects and transnational M&A that frequently involve insurance coverage and suretyship issues.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Dispute resolution > Mediators
- Mediators London > Dispute resolution
- Mediators London > Dispute resolution > Mediators