Michael Bowsher KC has a busy practice in public procurement, competition and commercial law, particularly in disputes concerning major public and public-private projects. He is particularly known for his unique practice in regulated procurement in the United Kingdom, Ireland, elsewhere in Europe and beyond.

Michael Bowsher KC has appeared as counsel in many of the major procurement cases over more than a decade. His contentious practice is complemented by a substantial practice in providing legal and strategic advice for bidders and purchasers throughout the procurement process.

Michael’s remains very active in competition law matters, having acted in a number of recent matters involving essential facilities, competition in payment systems and now acting as leading counsel in a number of collective proceedings brought in the CAT.

In recent years Michael has become increasingly involved in matters involving application and interpretation of investment treaties and trade agreements as well as a range of matters involving Outer Space law.

Michael is active in a range of dispute resolution arrangements. He has often been appointed as arbitrator, mediator and expert by CEDR, LCIA, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Technology and Construction Solicitor Association. Most of his appointments involve disputes concerning investments or long term contracts involving the public sector or utilities. He has recently been involved in a number procedures involving disputes in the operation of the NHS.

Michael is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London where he teaches EU Public Procurement on the LLM degree course and is Director of the Distance Learning Diploma and Masters in Public Procurement law. Each of these courses includes substantial components concerning procurement by international organisations beyond the EU.

Michael is a member of the Bar Library in Belfast and the Law Library in Dublin, and practises actively in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as well as in England and Wales.

Michael is Leader of the European Circuit of the Bar of England and Wales.

Pascal Friton is a specialist lawyer for public procurement law (“Fachanwalt für Vergaberecht”) and an expert for international trade law. His public procurement law practice covers advice to both contracting authorities and bidders, in particular in the IT, defence and security, infrastructure, energy and healthcare sectors. In addition, he has longstanding experience in the field of procurement compliance (exclusion from public procurement procedures, corruption registers and self-cleaning). This also includes advising on sanctions imposed by the World Bank or other multilateral development banks.

In the area of international trade law Pascal regularly advises the export industry and financial institutes on economic sanctions of the EU, for example against Iran and Russia. Pascal’s practice also includes EU and German Blocking/Anti-Boycott Law as well as FDI applications to the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action under the German Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz (AWG)).

Pascal is regularly ranked as one of the leading public procurement lawyers by Who’s Who Legal: Government Contracts and is also among Who’s Who Legal “Thought Leaders - Germany”. He is recommended by The Legal 500, listed in Chambers Europe for Public Procurement, and ranks also among Germany’s most renowned lawyers according to German business magazines “Wirtschaftswoche” and “Handelsblatt”. In the field of “International Trade” he is also listed as leading lawyer by Who’s Who Legal.

Pascal is admitted to the Bar in Germany (Rechtsanwalt) and is also a specialist lawyer for public procurement law (“Fachanwalt für Vergaberecht”).

Paul Lalonde is a partner and lead of the Regulatory practice group. He focuses on government contracting law, international trade, anti-corruption and international arbitration. Mr. Lalonde is a recognized expert on government procurement and international trade law, with deep experience in anti-dumping and countervail investigations, customs, appeals, import and export controls, international sanctions, anti-corruption compliance and investigations, and international business. He regularly advises clients on Canada’s international investment treaty commitments and has played a key role in some of Canada’s highest profile trade disputes and negotiations including those on softwood lumber, steel and agricultural products.

His government procurement practice encompasses all aspects of the procurement lifecycle, from pre-tender activities, the bidding process and contract award, through contract administration and termination and the inevitable disputes that occasionally arise. His track record of appearances in bid protest procedures before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and the courts is second to none in Canada.

Mr. Lalonde has received numerous accolades for his expertise in international trade and government procurement law including from Lexpert, Chambers Global (Band 1 for government procurement, Band 2 for trade law), the Legal 500, Who’s Who, the Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers (Legal Media Group / Euromoney Institutional Investor) and The Best Lawyers in Canada (Woodward/White). The Who’s Who Legal Government Contracts recognized Mr. Lalonde as a Global Thought Leader for North America. He also received in 2020 a global Client Choice Award in Government Contracts for Canada.

Mr. Lalonde has been involved in the area of anti-corruption law since Canada adopted the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act in the 90’s and was counsel on the first court-approved Remediation Agreement on charges under the CFPOA. He has assisted clients with respect to anti-corruption compliance through the entire spectrum of issues in this area, including developing compliance policies and programs, advising on business conduct issues, anti-corruption due diligence in transactions, internal investigations related to employee and third party conduct, RCMP and other enforcement authority investigations, dawn raids and negotiations. He has been involved in extensive thought leadership in this area including on topics such as whistle blower protections, victim reparations, deferred prosecution agreements, beneficial ownership transparency, money laundering, failure to prevent offences and facilitation payments.

Mr. Lalonde was appointed panelist on the fourth and fifth dispute resolution panels created under the Agreement on Internal Trade (now the Canadian Free Trade Agreement). He is also a listed arbitrator on the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Canada Panel of Arbitrators and has been involved in several arbitrations, both as counsel and party-appointed arbitration.

Mr. Lalonde has held numerous leadership positions in the Bar, including as chair of various committees of the International Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association, and the American Bar Association International Law Section. Mr. Lalonde is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, has been named a Trustee of the International Bar Association Foundation and is former Chair and President of Transparency International - Canada. Mr. Lalonde has been nominated to a number of industry advisory committees and corporate boards, including TVOntario, TFO, la télévision éducative et culturelle de l’Ontario français, and was former Secretary and Legal Counsel of I.E. Canada, the Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters.

Andrea Sundstrand is a lecturer in public law with a special focus on public procurement law and she is the course director of the advanced courses on public procurement law at the Faculty of Law. She also teaches public procurement law at Uppsala university, at Lund university, at George Washington University in Washington, at Tartu university in Tallin and for six years at King´s Collage in London.

Andrea conducts her research mainly on EU public procurement rules. She has been working full time with the EU directives on public procurement since 1994 and was in the negotiations for the 2004 EU Directives. Andrea previously worked 11 years at the Swedish surveillance authotity for public procurement. She has also worked in several project to assist new Member States with implementing the EU Directives on public procurement. Andrea was a member of the The Swedish Bar Association for over 20 years and has worked for several larger law firms in Sweden and in New York.

Andrea is chairman and the responsible publisher for the Swedish Procurement Law Journal (UrT, www.urt.cc).

Lynn David Research Professor in Government Procurement Law, George Washington University Law School
Christopher R. Yukins has many decades of experience in public procurement law. He writes and speaks regularly internationally on issues of environmentally sustainable public procurement.
He teaches on U.S. (federal and state) and foreign public procurement law, and focuses on emerging public policy questions in public procurement around the world.

He is an active member of the Public Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association, and previously served as the president of the Tysons Corner Chapter of the National Contract Management Association.

He is a faculty advisor to the Public Contract Law Journal, and has contributed pieces on procurement reform, international procurement, electronic commerce and information technology to a broad range of journals, including Washington Technology, Government Contractor, Legal Times, and Federal Computer Week. He has published on procurement reform in scholarly journals, including the Georgetown Journal of International Law, and Public Procurement Law Review (United Kingdom).

Together with his colleagues at the George Washington University Law School, Steven Schooner and Jessica Tillipman, he runs a popular colloquium series on procurement developments in the United States and internationally.

In private practice, Chris Yukins has been an associate, partner, and of counsel at leading national firms; he is currently counsel to the firm of Arnold & Porter LLP. He served as an advisor to the U.S. delegation to the working group on reform of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Procurement Law, and he teaches and speaks often on issues of comparative and international procurement law. He previously served for several years as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he handled trials and appeals involving bid challenges and contract claims against the U.S. government.

Further background on his work is available on his blog, www.publicprocurementinternational.com.