Michael Nightingale is an employment and industrial relations lawyer based in Sydney.

Michael's areas of expertise include all major aspects of employment law practice, including recruitment and termination of employees and senior executives, remuneration and incentive structuring, workforce restructuring and redundancies, industrial relations management, enterprise agreement negotiation and approval, grievance and misconduct investigations, provision of workplace compliance training, contract and policy drafting, Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) requirements, Corporations Act termination payment limitations, whistleblower issues, and advising on the employment aspects of corporate transactions.
Michael advises major Australian and international corporate clients from a wide range of industries, including banking and finance, manufacturing, fast food, retail, consumer and luxury goods, mining and engineering, and IT and technology, as well as government departments, statutory bodies and state owned corporations.