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.
Michael has acted on major privatization transactions in multiple jurisdictions across including in respect of energy and power; ports and shipping; rail (above and below, freight and passenger, and franchising); telecommunications; waste and water sectors.
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).
Energy & Power Generation
Mining & Natural Resources
Oil & Gas
Ports, Logistics & Global Trade
*Prior to joining Baker Botts
"Michael Harrison's knowledge on renewable energy is the world's best. Michael is always writing papers on carbon capture which is read with great interest and very useful for us."
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2023 - Singapore: Projects, Foreign Firms
"I have never met a more committed, knowledgeable, pragmatic and commercially savvy lawyer who always delivers the best outcomes for his clients." and "He is highly regarded for his skills and ability to deliver a solution without protracted delays. He is both positive and energetic in his engagements and able to communicate complex matters in simple and focused ways."
Chambers Global, 2023 - Singapore: Energy & Natural Resources International
"Michael Harrison is described as a "highly experienced, knowledgeable and committed lawyer…He has a first-rate legal mind, but what sets him apart from other external legal advisers we know is his commercial understanding of the industries in which he practises."
Chambers Global, 2021 - Singapore: Energy & Natural Resources International
"Harrison is deeply experienced in a range of projects work. ‘What makes this practice unique is Michael Harrison. He would, without doubt, be the best legal practitioner I have ever dealt with in my 35 years of industry experience.’ ‘Michael Harrison is a standout for a number of reasons, firstly because of his legal acumen and expertise, but backed up with his can-do, get it done, keep it simple approach. I find this unique, particularly at the level within and the industry sectors that Mr Harrison operates in.”
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2021 - Singapore: Projects; Foreign Firms
