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Micha’s practice spans all areas of Chambers’ work, with a particular focus on commercial litigation, civil fraud, competition, and arbitration, often with an international dimension. He regularly acts as sole counsel and leads masterclasses in commercial advocacy for the Inns of Court College of Advocacy.

Before coming to the Bar, Micha was an historian at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Warburg Institute, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries.

His recent instructions include Xtellus Capital Partners Inc v DL Invest Group PM S.A. [2025] EWHC 1989 (Comm), a €123 million financing dispute (with Alexander Brown KC); San Francisco Compute Company v Ori Industries, an international commercial dispute concerning GPU clusters (with Alexander Brown KC); an LCIA arbitration between a UK car manufacturer and a UAE dealership (with Alexander Brown KC); VTB Capital PLC (in administration) v Citigroup Global Markets Limited, an international dispute arising from the close-out of equity derivatives following Russia-related sanctions in the financial markets (with Sandy Phipps); and Bulk Mail Claim Ltd v International Distributions Services plc and Royal Mail Group Ltd, a follow-on competition claim worth over £1 billion (with Edmund Nourse KC).

Called 2022, Lincoln’s Inn

COMBAR; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

Postgraduate Diploma in Bar Vocational Studies (Distinction), City Law School (2022) – Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn; Winner, Quadrant Chambers Virtual Speed Moot; City Scholarship for Academic Excellence Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), BPP (2020) – Lord Bowen Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn; BPP Career Commitment Scholarship D.Phil., University of Oxford (2014) M.A. in English (Distinction), University of California, Berkeley (2009) B.A. Hons in English Language & Literature (Double First Class), University of Oxford (2005)

Lectures and Publications: Author of two monographs, three edited collections and over 30 scholarly articles on the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Europe. General Editor of the Sources in Early Poetics book series (Brill). He has given over 60 international lectures and conference papers and regularly acts as peer reviewer for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and The British Academy, among others.