People

Michael Lacey

Partner
Managing Partner, Cairo
Office: Cairo office

T: +202 2736 5128
F: +202 2736 7717
E: michael.lacey@dentonwildesapte.com

Michael is managing partner of the Cairo office. He is experienced in international construction projects, with a particular focus on both contentious and non-contentious matters. He has worked on many of the major BOT projects and his experience includes road, port, hospital, airport, power, bridge and airport privatisations. Michael also works with aviation, corporate, energy and environmental projects, including several major dispute adjudications for multinational clients in the areas of construction, insurance, finance, warranties and procurement fraud.

Recent projects include:

• advising on the leasing and registration of nine Airbus aircraft
• participating in the due diligence of an Egyptian telecom company bidding for a large Italian mobile telephone operator
• negotiating the early take over of a $120 million dollar natural gas plant
• resolution of a $30 million dollar design and delay dispute in a USAID financed wastewater treatment plant project
• settlement of a $2 million dollar insurance dispute regarding a fire at a gas-fired power plant, arbitration of $6 million dollars in delay/financing issues on a USAID financed telecommunication project
• drafting airport management bidding documents for six World Bank financed airport projects
• finalising negotiations and executing contracts on behalf of major American museums for the largest exhibition of Egyptian antiquities in United States history.

Michael is US qualified and is licensed in Connecticut, Missouri and New York.