Biography
Lauren Angelilli is Head of Cravath’s Tax Department. Her practice focuses on advising clients on the tax and structuring aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings, joint ventures and SPACs, both domestically and cross-border. She is known by clients and peers for her “strong tax technical skills” and her “excellent job of communicating how the technical points impact a deal or business decision.”
Ms. Angelilli’s clients have included Afterpay, Altra, Amblin Partners, AmerisourceBergen, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Atlas Air, AveXis, Ashland, Bacardi, Bharti, Biogen, Brookfield Renewables, Cable One, Canadian National Railway, Cano Health, Delta Air Lines, Disney, DreamWorks Animation, the special committee of the board of Eidos Therapeutics, EMBARQ, Global Blood Therapeutics, Graham Holdings, H.J. Heinz, Honeywell, the special committee of the board of directors of Hudson, J.D. Power, Occidental Petroleum, Pitney Bowes, Quibi, RWE, Shire, Sprint, Starbucks, Starwood Hotels, Technicolor, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Time Warner, UAL, Unilever, the transaction committee of the board of directors of Viacom, White Mountains Insurance, Xerox and the strategic review committee of the board of directors of Yahoo.
Ms. Angelilli has been repeatedly cited as a leading tax practitioner by, among others, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US and The Best Lawyers in America. She has been named a “Tax MVP” and was selected to the “Influential Women in Tax Law” list by Law360. Ms. Angelilli has also been named to the list of “Leading Women Lawyers in New York City” by Crain’s New York Business and was named “Best in Tax” by Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards. Additionally, Ms. Angelilli has been recognized by Lawdragon as among the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America.”
Ms. Angelilli was born in New York, New York. She received a B.S. magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2000.
Ms. Angelilli joined Cravath in 2000 and was elected a partner in 2007.