Dimitri Millas
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Biography
Dimitri serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, and underwriter's counsel in the municipal bond financings for various local governments, non-profits, and for-profit borrowers, including municipal governments, counties, hospital districts, port authorities, school districts, universities, healthcare systems, airport systems, water authorities, junior colleges, stadium authorities, and tax increment reinvestment zones, and serves as general counsel and bond counsel to municipal and special utility districts. His experience includes traditional tax backed financings, tax increment financings, revenue financings and private placements.
Professional experience
Collapse allJD, Yale University, 2008
MPA, Harvard University, 2008
MBA, Rice University, 2004
BBA, summa cum laude, Accounting, Texas A&M University, 1999
Dimitri graduated as the #1 ranked undergraduate student (out of 1352 students) from Texas A&M's Mays Business School in 1999 and was a recipient of the Gathright Scholar Award, which is given to the top student of each college at A&M. At Rice University, Dimitri received a Master in Business Administration from the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, with a focus on finance and general management. At Rice, Dimitri was the recipient of the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence, which is a full second-year scholarship given to the top male and female student of each class and graduated as a Jones Scholar—the highest graduating academic honor at the Jones School.
In 2008, Dimitri graduated with a law degree from Yale Law School and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard, Dimitri focused his studies on public policy, political advocacy and leadership, was chosen to be a teaching assistant for Dr. Ronald Heifetz, one of the world's foremost leadership theorists and consultants, and studied under David Gergen, an advisor to four U.S. Presidents and co-founding director (with Heifetz) of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University. At Yale, Dimitri focused his legal studies on constitutional law, legal history and legal philosophy. He wrote his two major papers at Yale under the supervision of Professor Bruce Ackerman and Professor Jules Coleman, respectively. Dimitri was also an Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and the Yale Journal of International Law.
Dimitri, a native Houstonian, is a graduate of Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Corpus Christi Catholic Middle School and Annunciation Orthodox School.
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