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Mike Stenglein specializes in resolving complex business disputes and splits his time between Texas and New York. He was formerly head of the firm’s Contracts and Business Torts group and now chairs the firm’s Global Construction and Engineering Disputes practice. He is founder and Managing Partner of our Austin office, served on the firm’s ten-person Policy Committee, Chairs the firm’s Contingency Fee Committee, serves on the firm’s Performance Management and Compensation Committee, and a member of the firm's Diversity Committee.
With nearly 30 years of experience, Mike has been lead counsel for corporate clients, private equity funds, hedge funds, investment banks, and pension plans in hundreds of complex business disputes in domestic courts across the country and arbitral tribunals around the globe, including the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, ICSID, the American Arbitration Association, and CPR.
In the construction space, Mike represents clients in disputes involving oil refineries, chemical plants, power generation facilities, data centers, semiconductor manufacturing plants, solar and battery plants, and office and retail buildings. By way of example, Mike recently was lead counsel in over 15 weeks of arbitration merits hearings involving “megaproject” construction disputes in the United States and South America that involved more than $5 billion in alleged damages and a merits hearing involving a $4 billion petrochemical project in Canada. Mike also recently represented Microsoft in a construction dispute involving a data center project.
In the business dispute space, Mike’s experience includes resolution of complex business problems for industry leading clients, including in the private equity space. These matters usually involve complex contract questions for clients in the energy and technology space, including intellectual property disputes (patent and trademark). Mike’s representative clients in this space include, Lotus Infrastructure Partners, D.E. Shaw & Co, D. E Shaw Renewable Investments, Capital Dynamics, Oaktree Capital Management, Arevon Asset Management, Axium Infrastructure, Macquarie Asset Management, Macquarie Capital, Ridgewood Infrastructure, and Instar Invest Mike also has significant experience with very public, high-profile mass tort litigation involving contaminated ground water allegations.
Mike has been recognized as Band 1 in Chambers USA where it states that he is “an extraordinary litigator who is highly strategic in his approach to cases and is also excellent at tactical work” and that he is "an extremely skilled advocate and communicator and his level of service is very high.” Mike has also been recognized for many years by Who’s Who Legal, and Legal 500 for his work. Under Mike’s leadership, King & Spalding was named Construction Group of the Year by Law360 in 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Mike prides himself on being responsive 24/7 and was named a BTI Consulting Group Client Service All-Star in 2019 and 2020
Prior to the start of his legal career, Mike worked for five years as a Certified Public Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand. Prior to joining King & Spalding in 2008, Mike was a partner at Weil Gothshal & Manages and Dewey Ballantine.
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