Judith O’NeillJudith O’Neill is chair of the New York Telecommunications department of the firm of Greenberg Traurig. She has practiced law in the United States and internationally for 26 years, spending most of her time in the developing world, starting with Latin America, and, in the past decade, adding an equal concentration in Africa. She concentrates her practice in telecommunications privatizations, very often on the sell-side, representing governments, investment banks or large accounting firms managing the sale; and telecommunications mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, transactions, and services or equipment contracts globally. She lectures all over the world on the legal aspects of privatization, transactional needs and considerations in the developing world, and telecommunications finance.
Named by Euro Money Magazine as leading Privatization lawyer of the United States in 1997, she also speaks Spanish, French and Romanian.
She has carried out major missions in many developing countries especially in Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe), Latin America (Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile) but also in Eastern Europe (Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland) not to mention Kazakhstan, Thailand. During these missions she regularly led teams from the World Bank, OECD or regional international organizations. Her telecommunications interests obviously include the web and all its technologies.
Her involvement with the Surgeons of Hope Foundation Inc. as Board member will prove most useful: a personal commitment coupled with in-depth knowledge of emerging or developing countries where hospital projects are being run by the Foundation, the ability to advise on time and money-saving new telecom technologies in Africa, Asia or Latin America as well as very good introduction to international organizations circles and projects, Judith O’Neill can contribute a lot to the foundation and her board membership is evidence she is prepared to do just that.