Kenneth W. Miller serves as Chair of the firm's Private Equity Practice. His practice focuses on representing venture capital and private equity firms, corporations, pension funds and other private investors in equity and debt financings, leveraged buyouts and other mergers and acquisitions, dispositions and recapitalizations. Mr. Miller provides general corporate counseling to corporations in a wide variety of industries and advises executives in compensation, and equity-related matters. Mr. Miller also advises publicly traded corporations in connection with the sale to or acquisition of other publicly traded corporations.
Mr. Miller has represented private equity funds in numerous investments and acquisitions, including: the purchase of minority interests in technology, health care and retail companies; leveraged buyouts of retailers, distributors and manufacturers; and the formation, financings, acquisitions and sales of emerging growth companies. He is listed in
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2004–2011)
and
The Best Lawyers in America (2006–2012).
Mr. Miller also represents various companies in their transactional activities, including the acquisition of pharmaceutical products.
In 1985, Mr. Miller received his law degree,
magna cum laude, from the Northwestern University School of Law. He was a member of the
Northwestern University Law Review and Order of the Coif. He received his undergraduate degree in accounting with highest honors in 1982 from the University of Illinois and was selected for the Bronze Tablet.