Margaret O’Neil is a partner in the Finance Practice Group of King & Spalding. She is resident in the firm’s New York office and represents financial institutions, as well as developers and borrowers, in a wide variety of commercial finance transactions. Ms. O’Neil is a member of the firm’s Energy Industries Practice Group, and her practice focuses on the wide range of financing techniques used by energy and other industrial companies, with particular emphasis on the financing of electric power generation, transmission and distribution, petroleum and petroleum product facilities, alternative and renewable energy projects and other types of infrastructure projects. She has served as lead counsel to numerous bank groups and borrowers on complex syndicated secured and unsecured credit facilities of all types, including domestic and cross-border acquisition facilities, term and working capital facilities, leveraged and structured financings and project finance and lease transactions. She also advises private equity sponsors on investments in, and financings of, energy projects, particularly in the alternative and renewable energy sector.
Ms. O’Neil became a member of the firm in 1992. She was the leader of the firm’s Finance Practice Group from 2001 to 2007 and served on the firm’s Policy Committee from 2000 through 2002. Ms. O’Neil was ranked among leading banking and finance lawyers globally and nationally in the 2012 edition of Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business and in the 2011 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. She is also listed in Institutional Investor’s “Guide to the World’s Leading Energy and Natural Resources Lawyers” and “Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers”.
Ms. O’Neil received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 1977 and graduated, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1983. Ms. O’Neil is a member of the New York State Bar.
