About

When Michael dodge started …

practising law, he was co-opted to the team that acted in Robert Holmes à Court’s bid to takeover BHP. Over the years, Michael has gained extensive commercial law experience across the entire corporate lifecycle. He has acted on the full range of fundraising transactions, both debt and equity, from seed and growth funding through to IPO. Michael's experience also encompasses debt and equity transactions in primary and secondary markets. Michael has also been involved in mergers, acquisitions and exits from investments through IPO and trade sales.

Michael has acted for companies across a broad range of market sectors including technology, food, fashion, retail, construction, property, finance, industrials and infrastructure.

Michael's breadth of experience includes work on corporate reconstructions, in which the entire capital structure (both debt and equity) of the enterprise is being reshaped. 

Michael has previously been noted in Legal Profiles, the independent review of Australian legal firms as being an “astute and commercially focused lateral thinker”.