Michael Dew Partner

Michael Dew's practice is focused on commercial litigation, particularly construction law, creditors' remedies, insurance matters, and shareholder disputes. Michael has worked on a wide range of construction law matters including disputes over work quality and entitlement to payment, as well as structural failure cases where he draws on his prior experience as a structural engineer to better understand the issues and serve his clients. Cases involving technical engineering issues have included retaining wall and embankment failures, ground settlement (under warehouses, and major residential projects), and structural failures (buildings and transmission lines). The builders lien cases Michael handles in the construction law context overlap with the general creditors remedies work he does, including foreclosures, creditors remedies in the bankruptcy context, and involvement with Mareva injunctions (asset freeze orders) and Anton Piller Orders (civil search orders).