Alan K. Mills, a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, is a member of the firm's Litigation and Finance, Insolvency and Restructuring Departments, the latter of which he formerly co-chaired. He has served on the firm’s Management, Recruiting, and Client Relations Committees, where he helped develop the firm’s diversity goals. He formerly chaired the Financial Institutions Practice Group and currently, he is the Chair of the Firm’s Special Servicer Team.
He concentrates his practice on transactional, complex commercial litigation and bankruptcy matters, representing financial institutions; special servicers; equity and hedge funds; and secured creditors. Mr. Mills has represented clients in disputes involving common-law fraud, mechanics’ liens, construction defects, lender liability, breach of contract, tort, premium recovery, RICO, conversion, product liability, and commercial fraud. He has also represented secured or unsecured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings involving relief from the automatic stay, confirmation, cash collateral and valuation disputes, and reclamation and preference claims.
Mr. Mills currently serves as official financial institutions counsel to the government of Mexico. He is a former president of the Marion County Bar Association and a former chairperson of the Indiana State Election Board, which regulates Indiana campaign financing matters. Mr. Mills co-chaired the Marion County Judicial Study Commission, which evaluated the procedure for the selection of judges in Marion County. He was selected by the federal judges for the U.S. District Courts, Southern District of Indiana, to serve on the Commissions on Local Rules and the Civil Justice Reform Act. Mr. Mills chaired the Chapter 11 Task Force Subcommittee on General Bankruptcy Issues for the Southern District of Indiana. He was formerly on the board of directors of the American Pianists Association and currently on the board of the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and The Hoosier Salon Society. He also was selected by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association in 2011 to be a featured minority RAINMAKER and appeared in the November/December 2011 edition of Diversity & the Bar Magazine. In 2014, Mr. Mills was elected to the American Law Institute and is a “Top Ranked Lawyer in Banking and Finance.” Mr. Mills was also featured in Savoy Magazine as one of the “Most Influential Black Lawyers” in the United States.
