Michael was with PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2000. Before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, Michael was a partner with the Honolulu law firms McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon, LLP and Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel. Michael represents a broad spectrum of individuals, businesses and organizations in federal and state tax matters, with emphasis on business and real estate structuring, planning and transactions. He is rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell and is admitted to practice in the States of Hawaii and New York (Southern District of New York) and before the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Claims Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Education:

• Claremont-McKenna College (summa cum laude)
• Harvard Law School (Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal on Legislation)

Professional and Community Organizations:

• Kapiolani Health Foundation, Trustee (Vice Chair)
• Historic Hawaii Foundation, Trustee
• Hawaii State Bar Association (Tax – past chairperson and Business Law Sections)
• American Bar Association (Tax Section, Committee on Real Estate Tax Problems; and Business Law Section)
• Hawaii Society of CPAs