Keaton Miller is a member of Krieg DeVault’s Financial Institutions Practice, where he provides strategic and business-focused legal counsel to public and private companies on commercial and consumer lending, corporate governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Miller brings a wealth of experience from his time as Senior Vice President and Senior Assistant General Counsel to one of the largest and most acquisitive financial holding companies in the Midwest, where he was responsible for legal support and integration for mergers and acquisitions activities. He also oversaw a team of attorneys and provided legal counsel to the bank’s key lines of business.
Before his career as an attorney, Mr. Miller provided consulting services to financial institutions across the United States on behalf of a large accounting firm.
Representative Experience
- Provided legal counsel on acquisitions and sales involving financial institutions in excess of $20 billion
- Counseled and negotiated sales of assets including loan portfolios, branch sales, HSA lines of business, consumer finance subsidiary, and insurance agency subsidiaries
- Advised and counseled financial institutions on a wide variety of commercial agreements, including depository, custodial, treasury management, indirect lending, syndication, participation, lending agreements
- Served as corporate secretary for public company and various subsidiaries
- Counseled financial institutions on compliance with a wide variety of state and federal regulatory issues
- Represented SEC reporting companies in merger, acquisition and reporting matters
- Provided legal counsel to public company on acquisition of multi-million dollar aircraft, management agreement, and aircraft usage policy
Community Involvement
- Evansville Region Business Committee, Strategic Advisor/Loaned Executive (at the request of Old National Bancorp CEO) for Talent 2025 (2019-2020)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Indiana (2016-2023), Board President (2018-2019)
- Evansville Bar Association Board of Directors (2018-2019)
- Indiana Board of Accountancy (appointed by Governor Mike Pence) (2016-2019), Vice-Chair (2017-2019)
- Indiana Business Law Survey Commission (appointed by Governor Eric Holcomb) (2023-Present)
Education
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J.D., cum laude, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014
- International and Comparative Law Review
- Competed Nationally at LawMeet Transactional Law Competition
- Masters in Business Administration, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014
- Bachelors of Science in Finance and International Business, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, Indiana, 2009
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Stonier Graduate School of Banking
- Wharton Leadership Program
Bar & Court Admissions
- Indiana, 2014
- Kentucky, 2015
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Keaton J. Miller Joins Krieg DeVault’s Financial Institution Practice
July 24, 2025
Keaton Miller is a member of Krieg DeVault’s Financial Institutions Practice, where he provides strategic and business-focused legal counsel to public and private companies on commercial and consumer lending, corporate governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Miller brings a wealth of experience from his time as Senior Vice President and Senior Assistant General Counsel to one of the largest and most acquisitive financial holding companies in the Midwest, where he was responsible for legal support and integration for mergers and acquisitions activities. He also oversaw a team of attorneys and provided legal counsel to the bank’s key lines of business.
Before his career as an attorney, Mr. Miller provided consulting services to financial institutions across the United States on behalf of a large accounting firm.
Representative Experience
- Provided legal counsel on acquisitions and sales involving financial institutions in excess of $20 billion
- Counseled and negotiated sales of assets including loan portfolios, branch sales, HSA lines of business, consumer finance subsidiary, and insurance agency subsidiaries
- Advised and counseled financial institutions on a wide variety of commercial agreements, including depository, custodial, treasury management, indirect lending, syndication, participation, lending agreements
- Served as corporate secretary for public company and various subsidiaries
- Counseled financial institutions on compliance with a wide variety of state and federal regulatory issues
- Represented SEC reporting companies in merger, acquisition and reporting matters
- Provided legal counsel to public company on acquisition of multi-million dollar aircraft, management agreement, and aircraft usage policy
Community Involvement
- Evansville Region Business Committee, Strategic Advisor/Loaned Executive (at the request of Old National Bancorp CEO) for Talent 2025 (2019-2020)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Indiana (2016-2023), Board President (2018-2019)
- Evansville Bar Association Board of Directors (2018-2019)
- Indiana Board of Accountancy (appointed by Governor Mike Pence) (2016-2019), Vice-Chair (2017-2019)
- Indiana Business Law Survey Commission (appointed by Governor Eric Holcomb) (2023-Present)
Education
-
J.D., cum laude, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014
- International and Comparative Law Review
- Competed Nationally at LawMeet Transactional Law Competition
- Masters in Business Administration, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014
- Bachelors of Science in Finance and International Business, Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, Indiana, 2009
-
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Stonier Graduate School of Banking
- Wharton Leadership Program
Bar & Court Admissions
- Indiana, 2014
- Kentucky, 2015