William Mills concentrates his practice in the area of corporate law, with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and corporate finance.  Mr. Mills represents clients in a wide-range of complex transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, public and private securities offerings, proxy contests, spinoffs, restructurings, leveraged buyouts, tender offers, exchange offers, and joint ventures.  He also represents investment banks as financial advisors to transactions and advises listed public companies in the areas of corporate governance, crisis management, executive compensation, contractual negotiations, and general regulatory compliance.  Additionally, Mr. Mills advises hedge funds and other market participants with respect to their investments in public companies and strategies to maximize shareholder value.

Representative transactions on which Mr. Mills has worked include:

• Pfizer Inc.'s acquisition of Wyeth
• Bear Stearns Companies Inc. acquisition by JPMorgan Chase
• Trian Fund Management in the sale of Wendy's International to Triarc Companies
• Pfizer Inc.'s $16 billion sale of its consumer health care division to Johnson & Johnson
• Xstrata Plc's sale of its Noranda aluminum division to Apollo Management
• Trian Partners' successful proxy contest with H.J. Heinz Company
• StorageTek's merger with Sun Microsystems
• Pfizer Inc.'s acquisitions of Vicuron Pharmaceuticals and Embrex Inc.
• Celanese's sale of its polyvinyl alcohol business to Sekisui Chemical
• RGIS Holdings' sale to the Blackstone Group
• Republic Bancorp Inc.'s merger with Citizens Banking Corporation
• Red Zone LLC's successful proxy contest with Six Flags, Inc.
• Pfizer Inc.'s acquisition of Warner-Lambert
• U S WEST's merger with Qwest Communications
• MediaOne's merger with AT&T
• Dayton Power & Light's $850 million sale of its private equity portfolio
• Six Flags Inc.'s joint venture to acquire Dick Clark Productions Inc.
• Credit Suisse's acquisitions of Select Portfolio Servicing and Lime Financial
• Del Laboratories' sale to Kelso & Company
• Dianon Systems' sale to Laboratory Corporation of America
• Bear Stearns' acquisition of United Companies Financial Corp.
• Toys R Us, Inc.'s joint venture with Softbank Capital Partners
• Bally Total Fitness' acquisition of Crunch Fitness International
• Dianon Systems' acquisition of UroCor, Inc.
• Moore Medical Corp.'s acquisition by McKesson Corporation
• Six Flags Inc.'s sale of theme parks to Parc 7F- Operations and CNL Income Properties
• ShopRite Supermarkets' acquisition of Big V Supermarkets
• Toysrus.com's joint venture with Amazon.com

Securities offerings in which Mr. Mills has acted as legal counsel include:  the initial public offerings of Ernst Home Centers and Cosi, Inc., follow-on offerings by Cosi, Inc. and Scientific Games Corporation, and numerous debt issuances by Pfizer Inc., The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. and the Dayton Power & Light Company, as well as Northwest Airline Corporation's rights offering.

Mr. Mills has authored several articles on issues relating to securities laws and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Mills received his A.B., cum laude, from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Fordham Law School where he was Notes and Comments Editor of the International Law Journal.  Mr. Mills is admitted to practice law in the States of New York and Connecticut as well as in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  He is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.