Mike Caird is a senior associate in the International Dispute Resolution Practice Group based in our Manchester office. His particular expertise includes advising national and international corporate clients on a wide variety of Commercial and IT disputes involving County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal litigation, as well as arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

Mike spent six years working at a major city law firm in London and Hong Kong and, following a four-year sabbatical sailing around the world as a professional yachtsman, relocated to Northwest England where he continues his dispute resolution practice with Squire Sanders.

Representative Experience

• Completing a five month secondment at the GRCB litigation team at Barclays Bank Plc in Canary Wharf, advising on a wide range of retail and commercial banking litigation.
• Acting for a nationwide franchisor in the successful defence of a public interest winding up petition issued by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
• Acting for a number of current and former premiership footballers in an action for professional negligence against their former financial advisers.
• Advising the former director of a company providing short term secured bridging finance in the defence of a £3 million claim by his former employer alleging negligence, financial impropriety and fraud.
• Acting for a worldwide direct selling organisation in the leading case relating to the successful defence of public interest winding up petitions, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform v Amway (UK) Limited [2008] EWHC (Ch) 1054.
• Acting for a major international tobacco manufacturer in its successful defence of a three year, multi-party personal injury action (the Tobacco Litigation) – Hodgson & Others v Imperial Tobacco & Others, 1998 WLR 1056.

Publications

• "Are Client Communications with English Lawyers Still Privileged?" European Lawyer, April 2004 (Co-Author)
• "Preserving Privilege in the EU", European Lawyer, November 2005 (Co-Author).
• "Why America is in a Class of its Own", The Times (Legal Settlement), 25 January 2005 (co-author unaccredited)