Neil O’Dougherty
Associate
Neil focuses his practice on a broad range of corporate matters.
Neil is an associate in the firm’s New York office. He represents clients in a variety of corporate transactions, including finance and mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining Winston, he worked at New York Legal Services, where he prepared asylum claims for LGBTQ+ clients by researching government discrimination against gay and transgender persons in Egypt and Mexico and wrote a tax guidance document for undocumented clients. As a clinical student at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School, Neil wrote a public comment to the Attorney General of California addressing the impact of new data privacy laws on the health industry and artificial intelligence researchers. He also served as a summer intern at the New York State Office of the Attorney General in the Antitrust Bureau, where he worked principally on merger review. Prior to attending law school, Neil taught seventh-grade math at a New York public school and served as a corps member for Teach for America.
Credentials
Education
Neil received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2020, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics, a student attorney with the Prison Legal Assistance Project, Treasurer of Tax Law & Financial Regulation, and earned Dean’s Scholar Prizes in Hedge & Private Equity Funds and Economic Analysis of Law. He received his B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 2013, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honors society, served as a research assistant in the Economics Department, and won a Bernoulli Award for Statistical Research.
Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York