Micah Miller represents companies and entrepreneurs in connection with transactional, corporate, and litigation matters. While Mr. Miller’s clients entrust him with a broad range of matters, his work is concentrated on company formation, acquisitions, financings, corporate agreements, and commercial contracts. Additionally, he has recently gained significant experience representing construction-industry contractors in disputes involving federal projects.
Having worked as a foreign legal consultant in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2013 to 2018 after earning an MBA at IAE Business School (Buenos Aires) in 2012, Mr. Miller leverages his international legal experience and Spanish-language skills to represent clients from Latin America who invest or do business in the United States. Mr. Miller currently resides and practices in Austin, Texas. He began his legal career at a prestigious law firm in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, where his practice focused on the areas of general business, real estate and bankruptcy, including both litigation and transactional matters.
Through his educational background and work experience, Micah believes he has developed a unique capacity to understand and resolve a broad range of legal problems, especially those faced by business concerns and individuals engaged in cross-border activities. He prefers a no non-sense approach to practicing law, values ethical and cost-effective services, and believes in caring for his clients by striving to create and preserve value.
As matters of business, public policy and law are frequently interwoven, Mr. Miller believes that his practice benefits from his business awareness spanning finance, marketing, management, strategy, and governmental affairs. While in law school Micah interned for Texas State Senator Judith Zaffirini, analyzing and organizing legislation affecting the Texas Judiciary and the Texas Ethics Commission.
After graduating from the University of Texas at El Paso with a B.A. in political science, he served as an intern for the State Department at the Narcotic Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru. In addition to having worked in Argentina and Peru, Micah lived briefly in Bolivia and Mexico, where he has also traveled extensively. Micah is fully professionally fluent in Spanish.
REPRESENTATIVE WORK
• Represented Latin American tech entrepreneurs in their sale to a Middle Eastern buyer of a majority stake in a U.S. holding company with foreign operating assets valued at approximately $10,000,000.00.
• Assisted online security company with Series A investment round to raise over US$4 million USD based on pre-money valuation in excess of US$12 million.
• In Miller Act litigation, recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars for supplier in claim involving considerable factual complexity, including delays and scheduling disputes.
• In complex disputes involving government-owned construction projects and the Federal Acquisitions Regulations (litigated in state court against a subcontractor and in the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals against the federal government), recovered losses for the prime contractor from the government and a subcontractor totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars in connection with alleged schedule changes, construction delays, defects, differing site conditions, changes, and written and unwritten change orders.
• Created contract management tool to control conduct of operator (and minority JV partner) in a deep-water oil exploration project (valued at +US$500 million).
• Advised on sale of Preferred Shares in Latin American startup following a Series B round led by Goldman Sachs.
• Negotiated long- term supply contract for aerosols with top-five global consumer goods company.
• Created and maintained a litigation control spreadsheet for supervising and advising on management of disputes involving the Latin American subsidiaries of a major U.S.-based food processing multinational.
• Performed valuation of financial contingencies for internet technology startup for planning founders’ exit strategy.
• Maximized client’s position in factoring agreement with required minimum annual volume of US$5 million.
• Advised Latin American startup investment fund on US$ 3 million-dollar equity investment from a multilateral finance organization.
• Spearheaded due diligence and negotiation of multi-party investment agreement for real estate developments (valued at US$100 million) in two Caribbean destinations.
• Aligned branding and operational strategies with legal concerns for online marketplace.
• Ongoing litigation of a wide range of real estate, contract, construction and collections disputes.
