Michael is the Principal Partner at Ivy Crest Solicitors, with 18 years post-call experience and is licensed to practice law in Nigeria and America (New York). He is a versatile Attorney with exceptional commercial awareness and is adept in corporate/project finance practice and Public-Private Partnerships. Michael is APMG-Certified PPP Professional and is equally an APMG-Certified Public-Private Partnership Trainer for all three levels of the World Bank-promoted CP3P programme. He has led a number of infrastructure transaction advisory portfolios and gained significant transaction experiences from African countries, including Nigeria, Angola, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Until 2015, he was an expert-level member of the United Nations General Assembly’s Economic & Finance Committee where his work schedule comprised multilateral negotiations on macro-economic policy questions, BASEL III banking reforms, financing for development, sovereign debt sustainability and sustainable development issues.