Andrew J. Miller

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Andy offers a highly-skilled, practical approach to his clients.  He focuses on offering solutions rather than creating challenges.  With his years of experience, he has the ability to quickly breakdown and solve difficult problems and develop strategies for long-term success.

Andy’s clients run the gamut from start-ups to early growth companies to mature corporations and professional practice groups. Throughout his years of practice, he has advised numerous entrepreneurs and business leaders on a variety of legal matters, including mergers and acquisitions, business financings, business succession planning, taxes and commercial real estate acquisition and development. Andy has extensive experience with clients in the technology, hospitality, manufacturing and renewable energy industries.

Andy also serves as solicitor for local government entities. He has more than fifteen years of experience representing local governments including townships, boroughs, zoning hearing boards and municipal authorities. He enjoys working with local leaders to find solutions to challenging problems.

Prior to joining MPL in 2002, Andy practiced corporate law in the Washington, D.C. office of a large international law firm. Before that, he served as law clerk to United States District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater in Dallas, Texas.

Representative Recent Merger & Acquisition Transactions

• Buyer counsel in the $3.75 million acquisition of a Maryland transportation company and associated real estate.
• Buyer/Pennsylvania counsel in the $3.5 million acquisition of a manufacturing and distribution company.
• Buyer counsel in the $11 million commercial bank financed acquisition of a New England based mechanical contracting firm.
• Buyer counsel in the acquisition of a York County based HVAC contractor.
• Buyer counsel in the SBA-financed acquisition of a York County based machine shop.
• Buyer counsel in the acquisition of a well-established York County restaurant and underlying real estate.
• Sponsor entity counsel in a series of transactions to gain majority control of an IT services company with worldwide operations
• Buyer counsel in the $5 million stock acquisition of a mechanical contracting firm
• Buyer counsel in acquisition of an established franchise food business
• Buyer counsel in leveraged acquisition of a government contracting firm
• Buyer counsel in the acquisition of an IT security consulting firm
• Buyer counsel in the acquisition of a regional bus transportation company
• Buyer counsel in the leveraged acquisition of a machine tools distribution company
• Buyer counsel in the acquisition of the landscape services division of a diversified regional company
• Buyer counsel in the acquisition of a printing company
• Buyer counsel in acquisition of daycare facility being divested by a corporate daycare operator
• Seller counsel in asset sale of a division of a machine finishing and surfacing company
• Seller’s counsel in the separate sales of two franchised automobile body shops and underlying commercial real estate
• Seller counsel in sale of restaurant businesses
• Seller counsel in the sale of an automobile dealership
• Seller counsel in the sale of a dental practice
• Seller counsel in the sale of a national computer software and consulting company

Representative Financing Transactions

• Borrower counsel to hotel owner in the refinancing of multiple construction loans for properties in Pennsylvania and Maryland
• Borrower counsel to mechanical contracting firm in the refinancing of $5 million commercial loan
• Borrower counsel in a $9 million private debt and equity refinancing of a financial services firm
• Borrower counsel in a $7 million private debt and equity financing of a financial services firm
• Borrower counsel in private debt and equity financing of the holding company for an engineering services firm and IT security-consulting firm
• Borrower counsel in restructuring and refinancing of a commercial construction business
• Borrower counsel in financed buyout of partners in a professional practice
• Borrower counsel in the post-acquisition refinancing of a machine tools distribution company
• Investor counsel in the second-round funding in an integrated video services firm
• Investor counsel in the private equity financing of a wireless Internet services firm
• Investor counsel in the restructuring of an investment in an automobile sales and financing business
• Company counsel to an HVAC component manufacturing company in multiple rounds of common and preferred equity financing
• Investor counsel in the formation of a limited liability company providing services for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian markets

Representative Real Estate and Project Development Transactions

• Developer counsel for acquisition and construction loan financings for multiple nationally-branded hotel projects in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia
• Buyer counsel in the acquisition of a retail shopping center
• Developer counsel in zoning matters for commercial-retail shopping center
• Owner counsel in the $15 million construction of a water filter plant
• Developer counsel in the approval phase for development of a 220 unit mixed use development
• Developer counsel for the creation and establishment of a homeowners’ association for a 90-unit townhouse development
• Developer counsel for development of a retail center
• Developer counsel for various matters related to homeowners’ association in a 70-unit development
• Developer’s counsel for various matters related to a multi-phase condominium project and association
• Seller counsel in the sale of several reclaimed shale-mining sites by a leading national brick manufacturer
• Buyer counsel for the zoning use approvals and acquisition of multiple future properties for shale extraction by a leading national brick manufacturer
• Buyer counsel in acquisition and financing of multiple farm tracts for a growing family agribusiness
• Buyer counsel in the acquisition of multiple retail gas stations
• Represented buyer of a telecommunications tower site
• Represented buyer of a former industrial building for conversion to a trade school
• Represented an alternative school in various zoning hearing matters related to relocation of facilities
• Represented a leading national retail center landlord in obtaining zoning approval for a bank branch in a local shopping plaza

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania
New York
District of Columbia
U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit

Education

Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
J.D. – 1999 (Executive Editor, Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum)
Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC
M.E.M. – 1999
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
B.S. – 1994

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Alliance of Mergers & Acquisitions Advisors, Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor (CM&AA®)
• American Bar Association, Section of Business Law and Section of Taxation
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• York County Bar Association, Past-President, Board of Directors
• Pennsylvania Municipality Authorities Association
• Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors