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About
Provided by Michelle Bradfield
Practice Areas
Global Disputes
ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)
Career
Michelle Bradfield has more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer, with a focus on complex international arbitration often involving public international law. She advises and represents states and private entities on a wide array of matters, including investment treaty arbitration, international commercial arbitration, and boundary and maritime disputes.
Michelle has significant experience in investor-state arbitration and commercial arbitration. She is regularly involved in "bet-the-company" disputes and has worked for numerous FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 companies in disputes around the globe, including in the United States, Australia, India, Sudan, China, Spain, Brazil, Nigeria, and the United Arab Emirates. Additionally, she has worked for many States, including Australia, Malaysia, Croatia, Turkey, Barbados, Oman, China and sovereign wealth funds.
She lectures on boundary disputes and investment treaty arbitrations at King's College London and has published extensively on these subjects. Prior to working in London, Michelle was a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.
Chambers Review
UK
Michelle Bradfield is well versed in representing both states and large multinational companies in a range of matters, including climate change, investment treaty disputes and maritime boundary disputes.
Michelle Bradfield demonstrates notable strength in advising on investor-state disputes. Her practice sees her act for both investors and states in a range of complex disputes, as well as handling commercial claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Michelle is fantastic: she is incredibly dedicated, full of brilliant ideas and very enthusiastic."
"Michelle is a highly intelligent and motivated individual with great awareness regarding the various factual and commercial issues in a given case."
"Michelle is very detail-oriented and strategic."
"Michelleis very detailed-oriented and strategically-minded. She reads the dynamic of a tribunal well."
"Michelle has excellent attention to details and communicates effectively with clients. She is very good at being concise and strategic. She is very aware of the needs and interests of clients."
"Michelle has excellent experience. Her organisational and leadership skills running complex cases are superb."
"Michelle is very creative in her approach. She comes up with solutions and pushes the client agenda. She is a very tenacious lawyer."
"Michelle is fantastic, incredibly dedicated, full of brilliant ideas and very enthusiastic."
"Michelle is fantastic: she is incredibly dedicated, full of brilliant ideas and very enthusiastic."
"Michelle is a highly intelligent and motivated individual with great awareness regarding the various factual and commercial issues in a given case."
"Michelle is very detail-oriented and strategic."
"Michelleis very detailed-oriented and strategically-minded. She reads the dynamic of a tribunal well."
"Michelle has excellent attention to details and communicates effectively with clients. She is very good at being concise and strategic. She is very aware of the needs and interests of clients."
"Michelle has excellent experience. Her organisational and leadership skills running complex cases are superb."
"Michelle is very creative in her approach. She comes up with solutions and pushes the client agenda. She is a very tenacious lawyer."
"Michelle is fantastic, incredibly dedicated, full of brilliant ideas and very enthusiastic."