Michael Likosky

About Michael Likosky

Michael is a trusted strategist with a breadth of expertise, extensive network of strong relationships and proven track record in innovative deal structuring. Corporate clients have included META, Google, News Corp, ABC, CBS, ESPN, NBC, CCR, OHL, Abertis, AECOM, and S&P. Michael has advised global investors including Goldman Sachs Merchant Bank, Lazard, DE Shaw, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, GMO, Marathon, and Fidelity. He has steered institutional investors such as SEIU, LiUNA, AFT, and AFSCME Capital Stewardships. Michael has advised officials including Governors Newsom (CA), Brown (CA), Cuomo (NY), and Christie (NJ). US Treasury; US Senators Booker (NJ), Gillibrand (NY), Kerry (MA), Nelson (FL), and Schumer (NY); Mayors Emmanuel (Chicago), Garcetti (LA), Booker (Newark), and Brown (Oakland); and the finance arm of 38 rural CA counties. Michael chaired the Governor Edmund Brown Jr. Task Force to Modernize the CA Infrastructure Bank. In the nonprofit area, he has advised the Clinton Global Initiative, President Carter’s Center, UPenn, Ford, and Regional Plan Association. His international work includes: OECD, UN, European Commission, African Union, Academie Internationale de Droite Compare, and IDLO. Likosky holds a doctorate from Oxford University Law. He held the Professorship of International Economic Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and served as a Visiting Professor at Fordham Law and Wisconsin Law, as well as teaching at Oxford and Columbia Law. Michael has written five books including Obama’s Bank (Cambridge); Transnational Legal Processes (Cambridge), Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights (Cambridge), and The Silicon Empire (Routledge), as well as twice contributing to the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, expert contributor to UN World Investment Report, presenting at Yale with support from the Kempf Memorial Fund, delivering a Master Class at Project Finance International, and serving as featured speaker at Harvard Law and US Chamber. Michael has held fellowships: NYU LawnGlobal Eastman Fellow, Fellow at Bonn, and Century Foundation Fellow. He has received awards from Ford (four), Markle (three), Rockefeller, Arts and Humanities Research Council (three), Chatham House, Surdna, and WAGE, as well as the Weiss Awardee and Squadron Fellow. Michael appears in: NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Bloomberg, Financial Times, CNBC, Marketplace Radio, and McKinsey Matters. He has collaborated with Paul Weiss, Debevoise & Plimpton, Hogan Lovells, Shearman & Sterling, and Arnold & Porter.

Experience

1. Partner

   Results

   Nov 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

Education

• Vassar College

  BA, History

  1989 — 1993

• University of Oxford

  DPhil (Doctor of Philosophy), Law

  1997 — 2002

• New York University Tisch School of the Arts

  Sight and Sound Program, Film

  1992 — 1992

Skills

• Proposal Writing
• Human Rights
• Community Development
• Research
• Africa
• Program Evaluation
• Investments
• Corporate Law
• Foreign Policy
• Government
• European Union
• Public Policy
• Analysis
• Sustainability
• Media Relations
• Editing
• International Relations
• Sustainable Development
• Economics
• French
• Non-Profits
• Economic Development
• Regulations
• Policy
• Strategic Communications
• Policy Analysis
• Capacity Building
• Political Science
• Politics
• Public Speaking
• Commercial Litigation
• Ngos
• Fundraising
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Qualitative Research
• International Development
• Public Relations
• Insurance
• Nonprofits
• Journalism