Ice Miller LLP

Michael Edward Millikan

Name: Michael Edward Millikan
Position: Partner
Location: Indianapolis Office
Phone: (317) 236-5965
Fax: (317) 592-4830
E-Mail: michael.millikan@icemiller.com

Assistant Name: Angie McCarthy
Assistant Phone: (317) 236-2433
Assistant E-Mail: angie.mccarthy@icemiller.com

Undergraduate School
Bachelor of Arts , Villanova University
Graduated in 1994

Law School
Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis
Graduated in 1998

Admitted to Practice:
Indiana

Professional Experience:
Michael Millikan is a partner in the Firm's Business Group and leads the group's Private Equity and Venture Capital practice. His primary area of concentration is private equity and venture capital, but he also focuses on public-private partnerships and entrepreneurial companies.

Millikan's experiences include representing private equity clients in numerous equity and mezzanine investments, serving as general counsel to many of his private equity clients' portfolio companies, and assisting family-owned businesses in succession planning including sale transactions. He also represents a number of high energy entrepreneurial companies in strategic planning, raising money and achieving growth through acquisitions. Millikan has significant experience in public-private partnerships. He represented the state of Indiana in the lease of the Indiana Toll Road, the Indiana Finance Authority in negotiating a long-term supply contract for substitute natural gas, the city of Indianapolis in the lease of the city's parking meters and has represented bidders in both the Midway Airport and Chicago Parking Garage privatizations.

Millikan received his Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University in 1994, where he studied business, history and Japanese. After college, he spent a year in Tokyo, Japan, teaching English to Japanese high school students. In 1998, he received his juris doctorate from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. Millikan worked as a clerk for Ice Miller in 1997 and 1998 before joining Ice Miller full time in August 1998.

When he is not working, he enjoys playing golf and traveling.

He is admitted to practice law in the state of Indiana.

Professional Associations:
Member, Indianapolis Bar Association
Member, Indiana State Bar Association

Awards and Recognitions:
Super Lawyers, Indiana Rising Stars 2011
Best Lawyers in America, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012
Legal 500, 2009
Chambers USA, 2007

Community Involvement:
Board Chairman, ALS Association of Indiana

Services:

Business Transactions Finance and Business Support Private Placements
Buy/Sell Transactions Financing Strategies Registered Securities Offerings (IPOs)
Corporate and Business Services In-House Counsel Services Representing Investors and Entrepreneurs
Corporate Governance International Agreements Venture Finance
Entrepreneurial Company Services Private Equity/Venture Services Industry Experience

 

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