Nicholas Miller

Practice Areas

Strategic advisory and restructuring | Creditors' rights | Litigation | Business litigation

Career

Nick has a well-established reputation for helping both debtor and creditor clients whose assets or recoveries have been threatened by financial distress. Those clients include troubled businesses, their secured and unsecured creditors (e.g. commercial and alternative lenders, bondholders, indenture trustees, and official committees of unsecured creditors), and distressed investors and asset purchasers. The vast majority of his engagements involve actual or contemplated chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

He represents both large and small companies, but his focus is on the middle market. His work has spanned a broad range of industries, including gaming, hospitality, transportation, health care, consumer products, financial services, real estate, retail, manufacturing, media and various technologies.

Nick has been recognized for his work by clients and peers alike. He is a recognized leader in the insolvency field, having been elected to a broad range of leadership positions in various industry and professional organizations. Among other honors, Nick has been certified since 2008 as a Business Bankruptcy Specialist by the American Board of Certification — a distinction achieved by select professionals who have met rigorous, objective certification standards relating to experience, continuing legal education, integrity and peer review, and who have demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of business bankruptcy law. He has served on that organization’s board of directors and its Standards Committee.

Nick has the rare distinction of being a two-time winner of the Turnaround Management Association’s national Transaction or Turnaround of the Year Award, which recognizes insolvency practitioners who have “rescued companies from the shadow of complete ruin.” He is a Past President of the TMA’s Chicago/Midwest Chapter and currently serves on its board of directors.

He most recently received a Global M&A Network Turnaround Atlas Award for Consumer Products Turnaround of the Year (2019) for his work leading a group of attorneys in the firm's representation of Hobbico, Inc. and seven of its affiliated debtors.