Michael Lee

• Acts for a Caribbean State in a bilateral investment treaty dispute with North American investors over the latter's investment in a gas-to-liquids plant (ICSID arbitration, case. No. ARB/24/17). Ongoing.
• Acts for investors in respect of a dispute concerning a resort arising from alleged breaches of two bilateral investment treaties by Tanzania (ICSID arbitration, Case No. ARB/23/26). Ongoing.
• Acted (with offshore co-counsel) for investors in commercial arbitration and offshore court proceedings in a shareholders/funds dispute over a South Asian utilities provider.
• Advised an UNHW individual and related investment vehicles on English law enforcement issues concerning an LCIA arbitral award arising out of proceedings alleging claims of unlawful means conspiracy.
• Acted for investors in respect of a NAFTA arbitration concerning the summary termination of Ontario's greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program (ICSID arbitration, Case No. ARB/20/52).
• Acted for investors in an ICSID arbitration relating to the expropriation of a substantial aquaculture enterprise by The Gambia (ICSID arbitration, Case No. ARB/18/10).
• Advised an East African company on English contract and trust law claims in a shareholders dispute over an East African power plant.
• Advised a North American controlling interest in a mining asset on parallel commercial and investor-state arbitration claims against a Central American State.
• Acted for the assignee of a GAFTA arbitral award in English court proceedings to commit West African counterparties and award debtors for contempt.
• Acted for a Western European commodities trader in English court proceedings to defend an ICA award in a s68 challenge brought by Middle Eastern business partners.
• Acted (with Southern European co-counsel) for a Western European steel trader to prosecute a high-value commodities trade finance dispute brought by a Southern European seller counterparty and factoring bank (LCIA arbitration; English law).
• Advised (with Middle Eastern co-counsel) a South American agrobusiness to secure payment for commodities cargo from Middle Eastern purchasers.
• Advised (with Northern European co-counsel) Western European shipowners to negotiate release of a cargo vessel arrested in a Northern European port.
• Acted (with East Asian co-counsel) for an East Asian conglomerate to defend a high-value construction/product liability dispute brought by a Central European renewable chemicals manufacturer (LCIA arbitration; English law).
• Acted for Middle Eastern businesspeople to prosecute a high-value finance dispute against a Western African commercial fishery (ad hoc arbitration; English law) and to defend an award challenge in English court proceedings.
• Acted (with South Asian co-counsel) for a West African bank in English and Indian court proceedings to enforce a $12 million bank loan guarantee against South Asian agrobusiness borrowers.
• Acted for a Western European multi-industry asset management company in English court proceedings to enforce a multimillion tax indemnity in a share purchase dispute.
• Advised a minority shareholder in a chemicals manufacturing company on potential investment treaty claims against a Middle Eastern State.
• Acted for a Central American State to defend a $75 million pricing dispute with Western European investors in an LPG distribution business (ICSID arbitration, Case No. ARB/13/2).
• Acted for an Australian incorporated association in Australian court proceedings to defeat a claim of sovereign immunity alleged by a Middle Eastern State.
• Acted for an UHNW individual in Australian court proceedings to prosecute a defamation claim against a North American technology company.

"Making arbitration time and cost-efficient," Balkan Arbitration Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 16-17, 2025

• Legal Intern to President Carmel Agius, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UNICTY) (2015-2016)