Greenberg Traurig Texas Adds Norman R. Miller, Corporate Attorney With Broad Public Company Experience
HOUSTON and DALLAS (PRWEB) December 15, 2014 -- Norman R. Miller joins the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in its Corporate and Securities Practice. Miller will maintain offices in Houston and Dallas. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Miller was a partner at Winstead.
"I am very pleased to welcome Norman Miller to Greenberg Traurig. With his strong corporate securities background, Norman will be a real asset to our corporate practice in Texas,” said Douglas C. Atnipp, Greenberg Traurig co-regional operating shareholder for Texas and co-managing shareholder in Houston.
“We are thrilled to have a lawyer of Norman’s caliber join our Texas corporate practice. With his broad background working with public companies and in capital market transactions, Norman possesses experience and skills important to our clients,” said Darrell R. Windham, chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Texas Corporate & Securities Practice.
Miller advises public and private companies and funds on a wide range of corporate and securities matters. He focuses his practice on capital raises, including IPOs, public offerings of debt and equity, PIPEs and Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings, and private placements. Miller represents clients on mergers and acquisitions (and cross-border mergers and acquisitions), divestitures and split-ups. He handles compliance matters for public companies involving SEC reporting and disclosure obligations, as well as NYSE and Nasdaq rules. Miller counsels boards of directors as well as audit, compensation, and nominating and governance committees on corporate governance issues. He also advises special committees of independent directors. Miller is experienced in matters involving hostile tender offers, proxy contests, activist shareholders and institutional shareholders. He also provides transactional and corporate representation to private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Miller represents corporate borrowers in connection with both the creation and the restructuring of credit facilities as well as consent solicitations of bond holders. He also serves as outside general counsel for public and private companies and advises companies on whistleblower claims.
With more than 30 years of experience, Miller is known for providing strategic legal solutions to complex corporate challenges. Since 2010, he has completed five major bracket public offerings for a premier Texas financial institution. He also represented a company and the selling shareholders, respectively, in two IPOs (homebuilding and energy services), each in excess of $100 million. Miller completed three capital raises for community banks, two of which were in excess of $30 million, and negotiated an acquisition agreement of a publicly held restaurant company by a well-known Houston-based restaurant company.
Miller handles transactions across various industries, including energy and energy services, financial institutions, community banks, media, health care, homebuilding, and hospitality and restaurants.
Miller earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A., with distinction, from Northwestern University.
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP – Texas
Greenberg Traurig has more than 100 attorneys in Texas, serving clients from offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston.
About Greenberg Traurig’s Corporate & Securities Practice
Greenberg Traurig’s Corporate & Securities practice is comprised of more than 400 lawyers across more than 30 offices. The group provides advice and services to public and privately held companies and entrepreneurs throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The team brings together the strategic business, legal and market experience needed to manage and close the most complex transactions and provides practical counsel on day-to-day operations.
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, multi-practice law firm with approximately 1750 attorneys serving clients from 36 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The firm is among the “Power Elite” in the 2014 BTI Client Relationship Scorecard report, which assesses the nature and strength of law firms' client relationships. For additional information, please visit http://www.gtlaw.com.
Gail Finley, Greenberg Traurig, +1 713-374-3500, [email protected]
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