Lisa O’Neill has joined Milbank’s London office as a partner.
Recently recognized by Legal 500 UK as “Individual of the Year” for Corporate and Commercial M&A, O’Neill’s practice focuses on advising companies on a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, takeovers, joint ventures, reorganizations and commercial contracts. She advises a broad range of clients listed in the FSTE 100, Fortune 250, international energy companies, infrastructure funds, private equity funds, and financial institutions.
O’Neill’s recently advised global industrial gases company Praxair on the $6 billion sale of the majority of its businesses in Europe to Taiyo Nippon Sanso and the $3.3 billion divestment of North American and South American assets by Praxair and Linde AG to Messer and CVC Capital Partners Fund VII. The divestments were required for the consummation of the $90 billion Praxair-Linde merger.
“Lisa is an exceptionally talented lawyer and we are pleased to welcome her to the firm,” said Milbank Chairman Scott A. Edelman. “Lisa’s addition to the firm marks an important milestone in the continued growth of the firm’s transactional capabilities globally and our commitment to growing to meet the evolving business goals of our clients.”
O’Neill joins Milbank from McDermott Will & Emery, where she was a partner. She has been consistently recognized for her corporate work and was most recently named “Best in Mergers & Acquisitions” by Euromoney LMG’s Women in Business Law Awards, 2019; The M&A Advisor’s 2019 International M&A Awards in the “M&A Deal of the Year” category; and was honored by Law360 as “Most Valuable Player, Mergers & Acquisitions” in 2019.
