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Edwin L. Miller Jr.

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Edwin L. Miller Jr. has practiced corporate and securities law for over 35 years. He has represented both issuers and underwriters in scores of IPOs, secondary stock offerings and other public market transactions that have raised billions of dollars. Mr. Miller has organized a number of private equity/venture capital funds and has represented venture capital firms and technology companies in venture financings throughout his time in practice. More recently, he has concentrated on the representation of emerging technology companies from start-up to sale. In addition, Mr. Miller has extensive mergers and acquisitions experience, representing both acquirers and sellers. Mr. Miller was the first associate and a partner for over 20 years at Boston's Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, a leading “technology law” firm.

Mr. Miller is the author of two books, published by John Wiley & Sons: “Lifecycle of a Technology Company: A Step-by-Step Legal and Practical Guide from Startup to Sale” (http://amzn.to/kYVhme) and “Mergers & Acquisitions: A Step-by-Step Legal and Practical Guide.” (http://amzn.to/mKyENJ) 

Representative Client Work

  • Over 100 other issuer-side and underwriter-side IPOs and other public financings
  • Sell-side M&A transactions include Siemens’ divestiture of its general purpose machine vision business to Spectris plc (price undisclosed); X-Café LLC (coffee extracts) to Kerry (Ireland) ($30 million); Ibrix (file serving software) to Hewlett-Packard (price undisclosed); Guardent (network security consulting and monitoring) to VeriSign ($140 million); Specialty Brands of America (food brands) to American Capital Partners ($70 million); Grand Virtual (offshore internet gaming) to GigaMedia International (Taiwan) ($35 million); SMaL Camera Technologies to Cypress Semiconductor ($40+ million); and Ciphent Inc. to Accuvant (price undisclosed
  • Buy-side M&A transactions include the purchase by Iron Mountain of Connected Corporation ($120 million), LiveVault ($50 million), Stratify ($160 million) and Mimosa Systems ($110 Million); the acquisition/spinoff of Travel Centers of America by Hospitality Properties Trust ($2 billion); the purchase by Taconic Farms of the Xenogen Biosciences division of Caliper Life Sciences, and the purchase by Konarka Technologies of Siemens’ photovoltaics business in Germany
  • Representative clients: Aeris Therapeutics (biotech/medical devices); American DG Energy (co-generation); Bio-Tree Systems (medical imaging); Charles River Analytics (advanced government research); Konarka Technologies (thin film photovoltaics); Natel Energy (low-head hydro technology); Pillar Investments (Beirut); Pluristem Therapeutics (Haifa) (stem cells); Rosse Enterprises (private investments); Strategic Science & Technologies (pharmaceuticals); Taconic Farms (genetically engineered animal models); and Therasis (drug discovery) 

Bar Admissions

  • Massachusetts, 1973

Publications

Teaching & Speaking Engagements

  • "Your Liquidity: How a CFO Turns the Asset into Cash," Financial Executives International (FEI) (June 2011)
  • "Financing War Stories: Venture Capital Abandonment? – New Early-State Financing Models," yet2.com Executive Briefing (May 2011)
  • "Private Capital Financing," Financial Executives International (FEI) (January 2011)  
  • Annual Mergers & Acquisitions Seminar, Financial Executives International (FEI) (January 2009)
  • Taught two courses at Boston University School of Law -- "The Lifecycle of a Technology Company: A Practitioner's Perspective" and "Mergers & Acquisitions"
  • Frequent lecturer at continuing legal education seminars

Awards & Honors

  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2004-2011)
  • Best Lawyers in America (2007-2012)

Professional & Civic Activities

  • Boston Bar Association
  • Founding Trustee, Americans for Children of the Middle East, Inc.
  • Board and Executive Committee Member (retired), Boston Foundation for Sight

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 1973
  • A.B., Boston College, 1969
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