Biography
Neil O’Donnell concentrates his practice on corporate and commercial transactions including project and infrastructure finance, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions.
Neil has represented investors and issuers in all aspects of venture capital financings and private-equity transactions; and creditors, debtors, and refinancing parties in workout and debt-restructuring transactions. He has experience representing start-ups and established enterprises in various strategic financing, acquisition, joint-venture, and licensing transactions throughout the world.
Significant representations include:
- Represented governmental and private-sector developers, sponsors, and lenders/financing parties in a wide range of project and limited-recourse financings of power, telecommunications, transportation, and other industrial/infrastructure projects and facilities throughout the U.S and in more than 50 countries around the globe.
- Represented senior, subordinated, and mezzanine lenders, noteholders, and other creditors as well as borrowers, issuers, sponsors, equity holders and other debt parties, in more than fifty debt-financing transactions, with deal values ranging from less than $10 million to over $3 billion.
- Represented various issuers in private placements and registered offerings of debt and equity securities with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $2.5 billion.
Neil is proficient in Russian.
Professional Associations
- District of Columbia Bar Association, Member
Published Works
- Dispute Resolution in the Commercial Law Tribunals of the Russian Federation: Law and Practice, 22 N.C.J.Intl. & Comm. Reg 795, Winter/Spring, 1997
- IMF Agreement: Impact of Foreign Exchange Controls on the Enforceability of International Contracts, Project Finance Monthly, April, 1998
- Choice of Foreign Law & Forum in the Context of US Federal Regulation: An Updated Analysis, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Vol. 6, No. 5, May, 1998
- Securities Regulations in Ukraine, East/West Executive Guide, Vol. 6, No. 12 & 28, December, 1996
- A Practical Approach to Innovation Mining: How Employee Contents Can Help Tech Companies Develop New Products and Services, PLI Current (October 1, 2019)
Practice Areas
- Corporate Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate Finance
- Private Equity
- Project & Real-Estate Finance
- Banking & Finance
Education
- University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- J.D. - 1996
- Honors: With Honors
- Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia
- A.B. - 1991
- Major: Government (International Relations Concentration)
- Major: Russian Area Studies
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia, 2002
- New York, 2000
- Colorado, 1996
Languages
- Russian
Past Positions
- Bingham Dana LLP, Associate (New York/Washington Offices), 1999 to 2001
- Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Associate (New York Office), 1997 to 1999
- Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, Associate (Moscow/Denver Offices), 1996 to 1997