Michael A. Harrison

Michael Harrison is a partner in the firm's Corporate Finance Department. He has experience across a broad range of domestic and cross-border corporate and infrastructure financing transactions, including debt private placements, commercial lending, and structured finance.

Michael acts regularly on transactions involving a range of industries and asset types, including transactions involving energy and utility companies; real estate investment trusts; mining and industrial engineering companies; gaming and hospitality companies; media companies; shipping companies; retailers; universities; hospitals and laboratory testing companies; airports; pipelines; water treatment facilities; transportation centers; wind farms; and commodities. He has experience on new financings, amendments, and workouts of distressed credits.

Michael has acted for debt investors and issuers on numerous project finance and infrastructure transactions. In recent years, Michael has acted for debt investors on public-private partnership financings related to electrical distribution networks, toll roads, a major railway station and transportation hub and a water desalination facility, and on secured financings related to marine ports, a TV and radio transmission network and a wind farm. Additionally, prior to joining the firm, Michael acted for a number of airports, pipeline companies and owners/operators of other infrastructure assets on their debt financings. In the social infrastructure space, Michael has significant experience on debt financings by universities and the operators of hospitals and medical centers.

Before joining Chapman in 2013, Michael practiced at a major international law firm in Chicago and in Sydney, Australia. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Michael was a fixed income portfolio analyst for a buy-side institutional investment management firm.