
CINO and Alternative Investment Practice Leader
Mach specializes in policy drafting, program placement and claims advocacy regarding management and professional liability insurance issues for private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds and private and public companies. He is responsible for overseeing technical insurance policy drafting for our General Partner Liability and portfolio company D&O books, as well as guiding private companies through the insurance aspects of the traditional Initial Public Offering (IPO), SPAC IPO, and de-SPAC processes. He is also a senior claims and coverage resource for our alternative investment fund and private and public company clients when they have a claims dispute.
Mach’s background is as a general commercial litigator, securities class action defense attorney and insurance coverage lawyer. Before becoming an insurance broker, he spent ten years defending alternative investment firms and private and public companies against regulatory investigations, derivative and class action securities suits, general commercial lawsuits and insurance coverage actions at Bingham McCutchen, Skadden Arps and Edwards Wildman.
Mach was born in Nicaragua, and grew up in Nicaragua and Costa Rica before coming to the United States. He graduated from New Lebanon Junior/Senior High School as a National Merit Scholar, summa cum laude from Tufts University, and Harvard Law School. He lives outside of Boston, MA with his wife and two boys.
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In this episode of The SPAC Podcast, Machua “Motsch” Millett, Chief Innovation Officer at Lockton Companies, outlines the critical role brokers play in guiding boards through the D&O insurance process before, during, and afte...
In this episode of The SPAC Podcast, Machua “Motsch” Millett, Chief Innovation Officer at Lockton Companies, shares his journey from Harvard-trained securities lawyer to leading expert in management and professional liability...