Terrell W. Mills, Member
- Entrepreneur Services
- Intellectual Property
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Securities and Corporate Finance
- Technology
- Venture Capital and Private Equity
Terrell has a dynamic practice with a mix of entrepreneurs and established, private companies. Because Terrell brings prior experience in the technology sector, many of his clients are associated with technology or related industries. Terrell represented three of the twelve startup companies presenting at a recent InnoVenture conference. His practice includes all aspects of corporate formation, mergers and acquisition, debt and equity financing as well as e-commerce, licensing, and software development.
Prior to attending law school and embarking on the practice of law, Terrell spent eight years as a management consultant, specializing in software design, development, implementation and integration. The first four years were spent with an international consulting firm. He then left that organization and assisted in the start-up and growth of a software and consulting firm specializing in forecasting software using neural network technology
Representative Matters
Recent merger and acquisition and associated financing engagements:
- Representing the selling shareholders of a defense industry manufacturer in the acquisition of the company stock by a private equity fund that involved rollover investment by the executive management. Subsequently, representing the minority, management shareholders that participated in the original rollover investment in the sale of all of the stock to a private, strategic buyer that also included rollover investment by executive management.
- Representing a public health care products manufacturer in an asset acquisition where the key assets acquired were patent rights.
- Representing an investment group acquiring an equipment distributorship and financing the acquisition through a combination of private equity fund preferred investment, local investment, and traditional bank loans.
- Representing multiple clients in the document shredding industry in the sale of assets to large, national document shredding companies, with the majority of such transactions being acquisitions by the two largest document shredding companies.
Recent engagements with entrepreneurs:
- Representing a medical device inventor in the establishment of his company, structuring employee incentive plans, developing agreements for protection of intellectual property with contract research and manufacturing companies, and securing over $3 million in equity investment from angel investors.
- Representing a serial entrepreneur in the acquisition of a telecommunications equipment and installation service division from a large telecommunications provider and in securing the financing of the acquisition through a combination of equity investment by a group of individual investors and loans from a traditional lender.
- Representing an entrepreneur in the establishment of a new company, the licensing of patented technology from a large research university to serve as the key asset to be leveraged through new product development by the company and the creation of employee incentive compensation plans.
Recent technology engagements:
- Representing a large multi-national auto parts manufacturer in the outsourcing of its U.S. based information technology infrastructure and support to a multi-national technology services and manufacturing company.
- Representing a manufacturer in its first direct to consumer marketing and retailing operation, which was accomplished via an on-line store web site.
- Representing a start up company in negotiating an agreement for the development of the core product offering with a software development house, which agreement addressed issues of intellectual property ownership, development methodology, project planning, testing and acceptance.
- Representing a private manufacturer in the licensing of an enterprise resource planning software application and associated installation, training and consulting.
Professional Background
| 2000-Present | Wyche Burgess Freeman & Parham, P.A. |
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| 1999–2000 | Associate, McCandlish Kaine & Grant in Richmond, Virginia |
| 1992–1996 | Neil Thall Associates |
| 1988–1992 | Consultant, Kurt Salmon Associates |
Educational Background
| 1999, J.D. | University of Richmond School of Law, magna cum laude |
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| 1988, B.E. | Georgia Institute of Technology, with honors |
Civic Associations
- Leadership Greenville Class XXX – 2004
- Westminster Presbyterian Church
Publications and Lectures
- Author, “METATAGS; Seeking to Evade User Detection and the Lanham Act”, (6 Richmond Journal of Law & Technology) 22 (Spring 2000)
- Author, “Making Managed Care Organizations Accountable: Can It Be Done?”, (47 Medical Trial Technique Quarterly) 1 (2000)
- Speaker, “Emerging Issues in E-Commerce”, Wyche In-House Counsel Roundtable, October 8, 2004, Greenville Bar Association, December 6, 2004.
- Speaker, “CAN-SPAM? Yes You Can with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003!”, Wyche In-House Counsel Roundtable, May 25, 2004.
- Speaker, “E-Commerce”, South Carolina Upstate Paralegal Association, April 12, 2007.
Bar and Court Admissions
- Virginia Bar, 1999
- South Carolina Bar, 2001
Government Service
- Member of task force seeking passage in South Carolina of the Uniform Electronic Transaction Act.