Kings Chambers

Michael Bowsher KC has a busy practice in public procurement, competition and commercial law, particularly in disputes concerning major public and public-private projects.

He is particularly known for his unique practice in regulated procurement in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and elsewhere in the EU and beyond. Michael Bowsher KC has appeared as counsel in many of the major procurement cases over more than a decade. He is also heavily involved in providing advice on procurement law and practice in non-contentious situations. He is also increasingly involved in matters involving application and interpretation of investment treaties and trade agreements.

Michael is active in a range of other dispute resolution arrangements. He is often appointed as arbitrator, mediator and expert by CEDR, LCIA, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association. Most of his appointments involve disputes concerning investments or long term contracts involving the public sector or utility sectors.

Michael is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London where he teaches EU Public Procurement on the LLM degree course and is Director of the Distance Learning Diploma and Masters in Public Procurement law at King’s College. Each of these courses includes substantial components concerning procurement by international organisations beyond the EU.

He is called to the Bar and practises actively in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as well as in England and Wales.

1986 – 1988             Tenant – Chambers of Donald Keating K.C.

1988 – 1992             Associate – Brussels office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

1992 – 2001             Tenant – Keating Chambers

2001 – to date          Tenant – Monckton Chambers

2018 – to date          Associate Tenant – Kings Chambers

Queen’s Counsel (2006) Called to the Bar of Northern Ireland (2000) Called to the Bar of the Republic of Ireland (2012) Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Chartered Arbitrator Fellow, European Law Institute Fellow, Centre of European Law, King’s College London. Visiting Professor in EU Public Procurement Law, King’s College London Joint Chair of Task Force on Public Procurement of International Chamber of Commerce (appointed 2007); in this capacity Michael has represented the ICC as an observer to international bodies such as the UNCITRAL. Chair of the EU law Committee of the General Council of the Bar of England and Wales (appointed 2011) (also a member of the General Management Council of the General Council of the Bar of England and Wales) Bencher, Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Arbitrators

Brasenose College, Oxford University – B.A in Jurisprudence, 1984