Michael focuses on general business laws in the UAE and the wider region. As such, Michael provides his clients with advice in relation to virtually all matters they tend to come across while doing business in the UAE and the region on a daily basis, such as corporate/commercial, intellectual property and employment law related matters. Having practiced in the UAE since 2005, Michael has advised a variety of local trading families, global household names, as well as regional hub entities of internationally operating players with respect to their daily operational legal matters in the UAE and the region.

Michael is admitted to the German bar. He received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 2002, and was a awarded a doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) by the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 2006 for his thesis on the protection of television formats in various jurisdictions.