Michael has more than 25 years of experience in financial services and the valuation of companies, projects, and other assets across a wide range of industries.

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Michael has extensive theoretical know-how and on-the-job experience in the valuation of financial instruments and financial institutions. Between 1995 and 1999, he was instrumental in developing the risk-controlling platform of Commerzbank, Germany's second-largest bank. During this time, he implemented valuation models for the bank's credit portfolio and its entire range of trading products, including complex derivatives contracts.

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Between 1999 and 2004, Michael worked as a manager at the bank's Group Strategy Department, where he was responsible for the bank's own mergers and acquisitions projects. He successfully purchased and sold banks and asset managers and was deeply involved in the bank's various group-wide merger discussions. Michael was also responsible for managing the bank's regulatory capital ratios and was the primary liaison manager for the credit rating analysts covering the bank (Moody's, Standard & Poor's, Fitch).

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Michael was the global chief operating officer and divisional board member of Commerzbank's investment bank between 2005 and 2011. In this role, he developed and implemented a successful new strategy for the entity, which involved a significant restructuring and returned the entity to profitability within less than a year. Michael also successfully led the post-merger integration of Commerzbank's investment bank with that of Dresdner Bank, following the merger of the two banks in 2009.

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Between 2014 and 2019, Michael worked as a principal at Tabors Caramanis Rudkevich, an economic consultancy specializing in power and gas. He was responsible for various investment projects involving power generation and transmission assets in the United States and worked on a market reform project for Malaysia. He also testified in legal matters involving electric utilities and independent investors in the power sector in the United States and Canada.

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Michael has acted as an independent valuation expert and consultant in commercial and investment arbitration matters involving various industries and geographies since 2014. He founded Seelhof Consulting in 2016.

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Michael holds a Master of Science in Mathematics from Justus Liebig Universität, Gießen, Germany (1994) and a Master of Science in Engineering and Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA (2014).

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Michael is recognized as Global Elite Thought Leader in Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal (2021): Michael Seelhof is “one of the true experts in the market with specialised knowledge of financial markets”. Sources appreciate his “strong analytical thinking, which he combines with a practical, commercial approach”.