EXPERTISE

Machua Millett is the Chief Innovation Officer and Alternative Investment Practice

Leader at Lockton Financial Services, in which role he creates new insurance products

for unaddressed risk exposures and serves as a technical expert on management and

professional liability issues for private equity, venture capital and hedge fund managers,

SPACs and target companies, and private and public companies. He works on a regular

basis with GPL policies, portfolio companies, D&O programs, SPACs, and companies

making the transition from private to public through initial public offerings (IPOs)

and reverse mergers, D&O/management liability, pension trust liability, fidelity/

crime, employment practices liability, private equity/venture capital professional

services liability, internet/e‑commerce/cyber liability, kidnap and ransom, and merger

and acquisition facilitation products. Mach has also been involved in creating new

insurance products relating to wage and hour liability, FCPA investigation costs,

FERC investigation costs, the responsible corporate officer doctrine, Dodd Frank

compensation claw-back, cyber liability, social engineering loss, Chief Compliance

Officer personal liability, intellectual property infringement liability, reputational risk,

medical billing and coding liability, and transaction facilitation.

Mach came to Lockton after twelve years at Marsh and ten years as an attorney at

Skadden Arps, Bingham McCutchen, and Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, where he

practiced law as an intellectual property, securities and general commercial litigator

and insurance coverage defense lawyer. He has extensive experience crafting insurance

contracts and litigating, arbitrating, mediating and negotiating the settlement of

complex securities, intellectual property, business and insurance coverage disputes.

EDUCATION

JD | Harvard Law School; Cambridge, Mass.

BA | Tufts University; Medford, Mass.

AFFILIATIONS AND RECOGNITION

Admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and the Puerto Rico

Federal District Court

Past Chair, ABA TIPS Professionals, Officers and Directors Liability Committee; Co-Chair,

Boston Bar Association Financial Institution Steering Committee; Membership Chair,

Harvard Law School Association of Massachusetts

Guest Lecturer, Harvard Law School, Advanced Seminar in Insurance Law; Trial Advisor,

Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop

Business Insurance “Power Broker” Finalist 2022 and “Power Broker” 2021; Business

Insurance Innovation Awards 2021 (SPAC D&O Insurance Solution), 2017 (CCO

Preferred Solution), 2016 (FCPA Corporate Protect), 2014 (Wage and Hour Preferred

Solution), “Hot 100” 2017, Business Insurance America; Nominee “Management

Liability Insurance Person of the Year” 2015, Advisen; “Rising Star in Insurance and

Reinsurance” 2011, Reactions Magazine; “Boston Future Leader” 2010, Greater Boston

Chamber of Commerce; “Rising Star” 2009 and 2010, Massachusetts Super Lawyers Magazine