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Founder, Member, Manager and General Counsel
- ICON LLC.
Michael E. Fox is a Founder, a Member, a Manager,
and General Counsel of ICON LLC (ICON). Mr. Fox and his law firm,
Fox, Hefter, Swibel, Levin & Carroll, also are personal counsel to
the other ICON principals, Gerard Centioli and Richard Melman. In
addition, they serve as outside general counsel to ICON's affiliates
and to Mr. Melman's corporation Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises,
Inc. (LEYE). Mr. Fox and his law firms have served as counsel to Mr.
Melman and LEYE and their restaurant and other affiliates throughout
Mr. Melman's business career. |
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Mr. Fox is a native Chicagoan,
lettered in basketball in high school, and graduated with high honors
in Accounting from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana,
where his name in inscribed on the Bronze Tablets in the University's
main library. He passed the C.P.A. exam in 1959 and graduated from
Harvard Law School in 1962, when he passed the Illinois Bar Exam.
After spending six months of active duty with the U.S. Army Reserves,
he began practicing law in Chicago in 1963. Early in his career Mr.
Fox spoke at tax conferences and published articles in various tax
periodicals. With the exception of the three years he spent as a staff
attorney on the Congressional Joint Tax Committee in Washington, D.C.,
in 1965-1968, Mr. Fox has spent his entire business career practicing
tax, corporate, transactional and restaurant law in Chicago with national
and local law firms. His present firm is the second law firm in which
Mr. Fox has been a founding partner. |
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Mr. Fox first met Mr.
Melman in 1970 at a business meeting where Mr. Fox was representing
a mutual friend. In driving Mr. Fox home after the meeting, Mr. Melman-then
working behind the counter in a delicatessen-- mentioned his plan
to open a restaurant and asked Mr. Fox if he would represent him.
The business and personal relationship between the two dates from,
and has continued uninterrupted since, that first meeting. |
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Mr. Fox first met Mr.
Centioli in 1984 while representing LEYE in its Ed Debevic's joint
venture with Collins Food International, Inc. The two worked closely
together in that venture and continued to do so when Mr. Centioli
became a LEYE "Partner." Mr. Fox served as counsel when Mr. Centioli
made plans to take LEYE's Maggiano's and Corner Bakery concepts public
and subsequently engineered their sale to Brinker International, Inc.
(Brinker). When Mr. Centioli resigned from Brinker to form ICON, he
asked Mr. Fox to participate with him and Mr. Melman in the venture. |
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Mr. Fox is married to
Karen Fox, a recruiter with her own firm in the hospitality field,
and between them they have five children. |
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