R. Terry Miller is the head of the firm’s real estate finance and securitization practice.
Mr. Miller has more than 30 years of experience in real estate, including acquisition and disposition of income producing properties such as office buildings, shopping centers, industrial facilities and apartment complexes. He also has extensive experience in workouts, major lease transactions and mixed-use development projects. He has represented foreign investors, institutional lenders, major national developers and financial services companies. Over the last 15 years, Mr. Miller has been heavily involved in the securitization of real estate and real estate mortgages and all related loan servicing and asset management functions. He has been the senior lawyer in the representation of special servicers of REMIC trusts as they relate to the negotiation and execution of pooling and servicing agreements covering in excess of $100 billion of mortgage loans. Mr. Miller's real estate finance group has handled the closing of in excess of $3 billion in real estate loans and has handled more than 5,000 defaulted commercial mortgage loans, all from the lenders/servicers perspective. In connection with the handling of such commercial mortgage loans, Mr. Miller’s group has been involved in over 1,000 bankruptcies, over 1,000 foreclosures and numerous forbearances, modifications, defeasances, and amendments to such mortgage loans.
Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Miller was a senior partner in the Dallas office of another law firm.
Mr. Miller was born in San Jose, California, on February 28, 1947, and was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1971. He received his B.A. in 1968 from the University of California at Berkeley and his J.D. in 1971 from the Southern Methodist University School of Law.
Mr. Miller is a member of the Dallas and American Bar Associations and the State Bar of Texas.