Milbank partners Naomi Ishikawa, Carolina Walther-Meade, and Karen Wong have been recognized as standout lawyers in the inaugural edition of IFLR1000 Women Leaders.
For this new guide, IFLR1000 selected 300 women lawyers from 14,000 globally, rating them on the basis of transactional experience and feedback from the market. Those who were recognized “have impressive track records and are consistently recommended by clients and peers” as among the best transactional specialists in their practice areas, according to IFLR1000.
About Milbank’s IFLR1000 Women Leaders:
Naomi Ishikawa is the senior member of Milbank’s Capital Markets team in Singapore, where her practice focuses on cross-border corporate transactions including offerings of equity, convertible bonds and high-yield debt securities, liability management transactions, privatizations, mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments. She has more than 20 years of experience representing clients in the AsiaPacific region and her practice spans many industries, including natural resources, power and energy, financial institutions, telecom, real estate and consumer products.
Carolina Walther-Meade is a partner in the New York office and a member of the firm’s Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group and Latin America Practice. Carolina has extensive experience in cross-border financings and international project finance and development, with an emphasis on infrastructure, energy, oil and gas and mining projects throughout Latin America. She has also been involved in numerous multi-jurisdictional acquisition financings and structured financings in the region.
Karen Wong is a senior member of Milbank’s Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group. She has spearheaded the development and financing for some of the largest energy projects in the world. In over 31 years of practice, she has led large-scale thermal and renewable energy power projects amounting to tens of billions of dollars across the United States, China, Southeast Asia, and South America, including innovative concentrated solar power projects, gasification facilities involving carbon capture and sequestration, and the US’s first offshore wind project.
