Experience
Mary Jo Miller is a member of the Corporate Section of the firm's Business Services Group. Her practice focuses on finance, securities, merger and acquisition, and general corporate matters, with a strong focus on renewable energy-related projects and companies. Mary Jo's clients include public and private companies, renewable energy developers, financial institutions, underwriters, utility companies, private equity companies, and governmental and quasi-governmental entities. She has handled a broad range of transactions, including asset and stock sales, project finance, syndicated and bi-lateral loan facilities, public bond financing and public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities.
Associate, Shearman & Sterling, London, England, 1998-2001; associate, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, Illinois, 1995-1998.
Representative Work
- Represented the borrower in connection with a public bond financing of a landfill gas electric-generation project.
- Represented a leading grower and supplier of specialty garden products in the sale of its plant business, structured as the sale of both assets and membership interests in special purposes subsidiaries.
- Represented the developer/seller in connection with the phased development and sale of four wind farms with aggregate installed capacity of 230 MWs.
- Represented a timber company in connection with the restructuring of its syndicated secured credit facilities.
- Represented the investors in connection with the phased development of a 120MW geothermal electric-generation project.
- Represented a manufacturer in the acquisition of the distressed assets of a competitor.
- Represented the seller of a 125 MW gas-fired power plant.
- Represented the issuer in the first Internet IPO in the United Kingdom, listed on the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
- Represented the underwriters in various securitized and high-yield note issues pursuant to exemptions from registration under Rule 144A and Regulation S.
- Advised financial institutions and corporate borrowers in connection with syndicated and bi-lateral loan facilities, secured and unsecured.
- Advised domestic and foreign private issuers with respect to compliance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Professional Honors & Activities
- American Bar Association
- Multnomah Bar Association
- Oregon Women Lawyers
- Fourth Place, 1995 National ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Legal Writing Competition – "Til Death Do We Part: The Moral Rights of Visual Artists in Their Work after Carter v. Helmsley-Spear"
Civic Activities
- Member of the Board of Trustees, Childpeace Montessori School
Publications
- Co-author, "Pencilling Out: Project Finance for Geothermal Power Projects," Lava Law: Legal Issues in Geothermal Energy Development, 2008
- "Reading, 'Riting and Response: Holding Colleges and Universities Liable Under CERCLA," 20 J.C. & U.L. 483, 1994
- "Regulatory Issues Affecting U.S. Financial Institutions Involved in Asset Securitisation," 8 Int'l Securitisation Rep 5, 1994, (co-author with Jerome W. Jakubik)
Education
- University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 1995, cum laude
Executive Editor, Journal of College and University Law
- University of South Carolina, M.I.B., 1982
- John Carroll University, B.S., 1980, magna cum laude
- ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking, 1992, with honors
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