Professional Experience

Mr. Miller’s practice focuses on representing public and private corporations in a wide range of sophisticated corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions and public and private equity and debt securities offerings. He also regularly represents venture capital funds and their portfolio companies in venture fund formation, capital raises and strategic transactions, including stock sales, asset sales and complex reorganization transactions. As the co-chair of Manatt's Financial Services and Banking Division, Mr. Miller counsels both financial institutions, and the underwriters and placement agents which service them, on securities offerings, branch purchases and sales and whole bank acquisitions, along with day to day corporate governance issues and periodic reporting. 

A frequent publisher and lecturer, Mr. Miller has also served as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, where he taught Corporations.

Education

Loyola Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1993.
St. Thomas More Society.
Order of the Coif.
Articles Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.

Occidental College, A.B., summa cum laude, 1990, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Phi.
Staff Writer/Calendar Editor, The Occidental.

Memberships & Activities

Admitted to practice in California and before the United States District Court, Central District of California.

Wexner Heritage Foundation Fellow.
 
Member, Financial Institutions Committee, State Bar of California (2002-2004).

Publications

Co-Author, "What are the Rules and Guidelines for Director Independence?" BankDirector.Com, August 12, 2011.

"Proposed Guidance on Stress Testing: A Valuable Reminder," The Bank Board Letter, July 2011.

Co-Author, "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Two Key Areas of Focus for Boards of Directors," Western Independent Bankers, January/February 2011.

Co-Author, “Compensation Committees, Consultants Now Under the gun,” CFOZone.com, August 11, 2010.

“Assessing the Current Financial Turbulence: Opportunities in the Midst of Crisis,” in Private Equity and Venture Capital Trends in a Turbulent Economy, June, 2009 (Aspatore Publishers).

“Starting a New Stock Repurchase Program or Expanding an Existing Stock Repurchase Program: A Primer for Banks and Bank Holding Companies,” Banking Law Journal, January 2008.

Co-Author, “Community Banks Look Ahead to a New Stock Exchange Regime,” Community Banker, May 2003.

“Putting Stock in Corporate Giving,” Los Angeles Lawyer, July/August 2000.

“New Hurdle Raised for Government in 10b-5 Cases,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, October 12, 1998.

“Harbor Breeze: SEC Change Opens Investment Opportunities,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, April 30, 1997.