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.