Timothy B. Mills is of counsel in our Los Angeles office. He is also the founder and managing partner of the Asia and Middle East International Law Group P.C.

Tim brings to bear more than 30 years’ experience in international business development, cross-border investments and complex cross-border commercial and white collar criminal disputes and their resolutions.

Specifically, Tim provides advice and expertise at the highest levels to enterprises across the globe involved in intricate international business and investment transactions, as well as in complex, high-stakes cross-border commercial civil disputes typically involving claims ranging from $5 million to hundreds of millions of dollars and defense of cross-border white collar criminal investigations and prosecutions involving the extraterritorial application of U.S. laws to foreign enterprises in the areas of U.N and U.S. sanctions, particularly those directed at entities illegally involved in trading with Iran, Syria and North Korea, bribery, corruption, money laundering and U.S. export control laws.

Tim has represented clients in litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court, most of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Canada, the High Court of England & Wales (Queens Bench Division), courts in France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt, as well as before arbitral tribunals in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.

Tim’s practice focuses nearly exclusively on providing advice and expertise at the highest levels to enterprises across the globe involved in intricate international business and investment transactions, as well as in complex, high-stakes cross-border dispute civil and criminal disputes.

Tim also offers highly effective representation to clients in cross-border matters involving regulatory actions by the various agencies of the U.S. Government Executive Branch under the direction of the President of the United States and his Cabinet Officers, with an emphasis on national security, cross-border compliance with U.S. laws, including economic sanctions, technology, foreign direct investment, U.S governmental investigations and enforcement actions.

In achieving extraordinary results for his clients, Tim navigates the intersection between business, law and government.

His expertise on issues of U.S. national security and defense issues is born of more than 23 years of service as a legal officer within the U.S. national security community. Simultaneously with his private practice of law, Tim served as an attorney/commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps, where he rose to the position of a senior international law officer within the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, with responsibility for critical legal aspects of post conflict restoration of civil authority, particularly with respect to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, settlement of the Kosovo conflict, and post-conflict restoration of civil authority in Iraq following the end of the Saddam Hussein regime. Tim retired from the Army Reserve in Spring 2011 (after completing over 39 years of combined active Army and USAR service) with the rank of senior Lieutenant Colonel.