Corporate partner and co-head of the Corporate practice in London Lisa O’Neill has been named as a Leading Corporate/M&A practitioner in the UK in the 11th annual edition of Euromoney's Women in Business Law Expert Guide 2021.
Euromoney's Women in Business Law Expert Guide celebrates exclusively the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of female practitioners. The selection process is based on extensive peer review research involving the surveying of thousands of in-house counsel and private practice practitioners worldwide.
The accolade follows a stream of awards for Lisa over the past few years including most recently being named Corporate and Commercial: Individual (London) of the Year by Legal 500 UK 2020, Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Year in Mergers and Acquisitions by Law360, the M&A Deal of the Year International M&A Award from The M&A Advisor for advising Praxair Inc on its US$10 billion divestment of assets in Europe, North America and South America (required for the consummation of the US$90 billion Praxair-Linde merger), and was previously named Best in Mergers & Acquisitions by Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Women in Business Law Awards - Europe.