Practice area

Corporate

Experience

Frank specialises in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, takeovers and joint ventures.  His work focuses on advising financial sponsors and corporate clients in transactions across Europe and Asia.

Frank is one of the principal corporate partners working on matters for Goldman Sachs, Cerberus and Paine & Partners on their European investments, and has also advised Warburg Pincus, Hellman & Friedman and other private equity funds.

He advises a number of international corporate clients across a variety of sectors, having acted for BAWAG, Colgate-Palmolive, Compass Group, Expedia, ICI, Ilim Pulp, Invensys, Lloyds Group, Low & Bonar, LVMH, P&O, Powergen, Prysmian and Schlumberger.

Frank also works on complex financial restructurings across a wide range of industries, including most recently the restructurings of Zim Integrated Shipping, the Gladedale property group and Polestar.  Frank was also part of the Freshfields team advising the Bank of England on various financial institution workouts, including Bradford & Bingley, Landsbanki and Kaupthing.

Professional background and education

2003
 - 
 present Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Partner
1999
 - 
 2003 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Associate
1996
 - 
 1998 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Associate
1995
 - 
 1996 Judge John G Koeltl, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, Law Clerk
1992
 - 
 1995 New York University, Leonard N Stern School of Business (MBA in Finance & International Business)
1992
 - 
 1995 New York University, School of Law (JD)
1989
 - 
 1992 IBM Corporation, Latin America Division, Financial Analyst
1985
 - 
 1989 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS in Finance)

Qualifications

2000 Solicitor, England and Wales
1996 Attorney-at-law, New York

Contact details

frank.miller
@freshfields.com

  • London office
  • 65 Fleet Street
    London EC4Y 1HS
    United Kingdom
  • Telephone
  • +44 20 7832 7703
  • Fax
  • +44 20 7108 7703