Kevin Miller

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Kevin is a partner in Alston & Bird's Corporate Transactions & Securities Group and the head of Alston & Bird's Financial Advisors Practice. The firm is regularly ranked by The American Lawyer and Corporate Control Alert among the leading counsel to investment banks acting as financial advisors, and over the last year, Alston & Bird has advised large and midsized financial advisors on over $40 billion of M&A transactions. Kevin is also the co-head of Alston & Bird’s M&A Practice Quality Team.

Prior to joining the firm, Kevin served as the head of Credit Suisse First Boston’s Investment Banking Division’s legal group for the Americas. He is a frequent author and speaker on M&A topics, including recent legal and regulatory developments, fairness opinions, stapled finance and the role of investment bankers. Kevin is a member of the advisory boards of DealLawyers.com and the Deal Lawyers newsletter. He is also a frequent contributor to the DealLawyers.com Blog and PLI Securities Law Practice Center.

Complete Production Services in connection with its proposed acquisition by Superior Energy Services for $2.7 billion in stock and cash.
Goodrich Corporation in connection with its proposed acquisition by United Technologies for approximately $18.4 billion in cash.
Energy Transfer Equity in connection with its proposed acquisition of Southern Union for $8.9 billion in stock and cash.
Frontier Oil in connection with its $7 billion stock merger with Holly Corporation.
Total SA in connection with its acquisition via tender offer of approximately 60 percent of the outstanding equity securities of SunPower Corporation for $1.4 billion.
Frontier Oil Corporation in connection with its $7 billion merger with Holly Corporation.
The conflicts committee of the board of PVG GP, LLC, as general partner of Penn Virginia GP Holdings, L.P., in connection with the acquisition by Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P., of its general partner Penn Virginia Holdings.
The audit, conflicts and governance committee of the board of Enterprise Products GP, LLC, as general partner of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. in connection with the acquisition by Enterprise Products Partners of its general partner Enterprise GP Holdings L.P.
BP P.L.C. in connection with its $7 billion sale of assets to Apache Corporation.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc., in connection with its $1.3 billion acquisition of Eclipsys Corporation.
Mainline Management, LLC, as general partner of Buckeye GP Holdings L.P., in connection with the acquisition of Buckeye GP Holdings L.P. by Buckeye Partners.
Mariner Energy, Inc., in connection with its $3.9 billion sale to Apache Corporation.
Merck & Co., Inc., in connection with the $4 billion sale of its 50 percent interest in Merial Ltd to Sanofi-Aventis SA.
Schering Plough Corporation, in connection with its granting Merial Ltd the right to acquire its Intervet/Schering Plough Animal Health business for consideration with a minimum aggregate value of at least $9.25 billion.
The special committee of the audit, conflicts and governance committee of the general partner of TEPPCOPartners, L.P., in connection with its $3.3 billion acquisition by Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
Sun Microsystems, Inc., in connection with its $7.4 billion acquisition by Oracle Corporation.
The Special Committee of the board of directors of Retail Ventures, Inc., in connection with the acquisition of Retail Ventures by DSW Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., in connection with the spinoff of its commercial consulting business and the sale of its government consulting business to the Carlyle Group.
The special committee of the board of directors of Union-BanCal, in connection with its $3.5 billion acquisition by its majority stockholder, the Bank of Tokyo/Mitsubishi UFJ.
King Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in connection with its $1.6 billion acquisition of Alpharma Inc.
Grant Prideco, Inc., in connection with its $7.5 billion merger with National Oilwell Varco Inc.
Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc., in connection with its proposed $300 million acquisition by Stifel Financial Corp.
The special committee of the board of directors of Pomeroy IT Solutions Inc., in connection with Pomeroy IT.
Solutions’ proposed acquisition by an affiliate of Platinum Equity for $6.50 per share.
Counsel to a special committee of the board of directors of a publicly held chemical company in connection with the sale of the company for approximately $100 million in cash.
Counsel to the majority stockholder of a publicly held bank holding company in connection with a potential recapitalization and other strategic alternatives.
Counsel to the founders and other minority stockholders of a privately held national retail company in connection with the sale of their 49 percent interest in the company.
Counsel to a public technology company in connection with its sale for approximately $180 million in stock.


April 30, 2008	Kevin Miller Quoted in Financier Worldwide Magazine
Dec 05, 2007	DealBook Blog Quotes Kevin Miller on United Rental’s Lawsuit Against Cerberus Capital Management
Jul 23, 2007	Dow Jones Newswires Quote Kevin Miller on Risks of Staple Financing
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March 7, 2012	Doing Deals 2012: The Art of M&A Transactional Practice
October 20-21, 2011	Mergers and Acquisitions Institute
May 13, 2011	Leveraged M&A: Navigating Debt Financing Issues in M&A Transactions
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March-April 2008	“The Obligation of Financial Advisors—New Decision Upholds Contractual and Other Limitations,” Deal Lawyers, Vol. 2, No. 2, March-April 2008.
March 2008	"A Critique of Pure Reasoning," INSIGHTS, Vol. 22, No. 3, March 2008.
Nov.-Dec., 2007	"The Demise of the Broadly Written MAC: Will the Plain Language Standard Replace the Reasonable Acquiror Standard?" Deal Lawyers, Vol. 1, No. 6, Nov.-Dec., 2007 (Executive Press, Inc.).
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