Economic Development and Incentives

For Companies Planning Capital Investments

Ice Miller has provided legal services on thousands of assignments for emerging to multi-national public companies and across all major business sectors. Our experience involves billions of dollars in transactions and projects, including:

• The formation of hundreds of public-private sector partnerships
• The negotiation of project-critical economic incentives
• Drafting incentive program and public finance enabling legislation and
• An array of strategic and client-focused legal services

Selected economic development projects in which Ice Miller represented companies or public sector entities include:

• AK Steel
• Allison Transmission
• Brightpoint
• Chrysler
• Countrymark
• Circle Centre Mall
• Duke Energy
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Louis Dreyfus Energy Corp.
• Lucas Oil Stadium
• Medco
• Nestle
• Positron Corporation
• Skjodt - Barrett Foods
• Steel Dynamics
• Subaru-Isuzu
• Toyota
• United Airlines

The hallmark of our Economic Development and Incentives services for companies is to assist clients to evaluate and maximize the use of public sector resources in support of capital investment projects.

In his 32 year career, Michael Rhodes, Director of Economic Development and Incentives, provided incentives services:

• For 101 Companies
• For 133 Expansion Projects
• In 28 States
• Including 31 Headquarters Projects

In total, companies

• Received More Than 300 Incentive Awards
• Attained Incentives of More Than $241 Million
• Created / Retained More Than 35,000 Jobs
• Invested More Than $1.4 Billion In Project Costs
• Included All Major Business Sectors