Michael Harrison
Partner, Baker Botts LLP
Michael is a leading international projects and transactions lawyer. Michael acts for corporations and financiers (including sponsors and investors, policy banks and export credit providers) across the following industries: carbon capture and storage; energy and power; hydrogen and hydrogen derived fuels and feedstock; mining and natural resources (including for critical metals and minerals); oil and gas, and LNG; ports, shipping and global trade; rail, road and tunnels; iron and steel; telecommunications; waste and water, and acts across all forms of government procurement and transactions (including major infrastructure development using all delivery methods), acting for both government and private sector.
As a leading projects and transactions lawyer, Michael provides structuring, corporate (including M&A, joint venture, and funding), commercial, project development and finance, and regulatory advice to clients across each of a range of industries.
In all legal directories, Michael is widely acknowledged as a leading, band / tier 1, practitioner in each industry and legal discipline in which he practices, in particular across energy and power, mining and natural resources, oil and gas and LNG, ports, shipping and trade, iron and steel, waste and water, and infrastructure projects generally.
Michael is a prolific presenter / speaker and writer on the legal, commercial and technical dynamics and issues that arise across projects and transactions, and the industry sectors advised.
In recent times, Michael has provided thought leadership on all aspects of carbon and decarbonization, the energy transition, including bioenergy, carbon credits and emissions trading schemes, CCS / CCUS, critical metals and minerals, energy storage, hydrogen and hydrogen derived fuels (and feedstock), renewable electrical energy generation and transmission, green ports and shipping, giga-factory development, net-zero waste (including recycling).
Michael is a leading international projects and transactions lawyer. Michael acts for corporations and financiers (including sponsors and investors, policy banks and export credit providers) across the following industries: carbon capture and storage; energy and power; hydrogen and hydrogen derived fuels and feedstock; mining and natural resources (including for critical metals and minerals); oil and gas, and LNG; ports, shipping and global trade; rail, road and tunnels; iron and steel; telecommunications; waste and water, and acts across all forms of government procurement and transactions (including major infrastructure development using all delivery methods), acting for both government and private sector.
As a leading projects and transactions lawyer, Michael provides structuring, corporate (including M&A, joint venture, and funding), commercial, project development and finance, and regulatory advice to clients across each of a range of industries.
In all legal directories, Michael is widely acknowledged as a leading, band / tier 1, practitioner in each industry and legal discipline in which he practices, in particular across energy and power, mining and natural resources, oil and gas and LNG, ports, shipping and trade, iron and steel, waste and water, and infrastructure projects generally.
Michael is a prolific presenter / speaker and writer on the legal, commercial and technical dynamics and issues that arise across projects and transactions, and the industry sectors advised.
In recent times, Michael has provided thought leadership on all aspects of carbon and decarbonization, the energy transition, including bioenergy, carbon credits and emissions trading schemes, CCS / CCUS, critical metals and minerals, energy storage, hydrogen and hydrogen derived fuels (and feedstock), renewable electrical energy generation and transmission, green ports and shipping, giga-factory development, net-zero waste (including recycling).