Clifford Chance

Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing

Meighan O’Reardon is a leader on the global Complex Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing Team at Clifford Chance. Her practice focuses on structuring, negotiating, and managing complex services and technology deals across multiple industries, most notably in the financial services, healthcare and manufacturing sectors. She also focuses her practice on serving private equity and investor clients to maximize operational value from their investments.

Meighan's practice includes work with private equity clients to identify and execute strategies to find operational efficiencies and value at both the sponsor level and within portfolio companies. Meighan is regularly called upon to lead third party contracting work associated with large corporate transactions including in connection with IT and business process Transition Service Agreements and post-deal operations integration. She regularly supports transformational initiatives at her clients as they procure new services and technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and implement new technology solutions.

With more than 18 years of legal experience, Meighan advises clients on strategic outsourcing transactions, service procurement initiatives, software licensing, data use and protection, and she frequently supports various bespoke commercial services transactions. She works with clients on all phases of transactions from deal structuring, proposals, provider selection, negotiations, to post contract governance.

Prior to practicing law, Meighan spent 10 years working in management consulting, focusing on operations process improvement, critical infrastructure protection and information technology implementation.

Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in Virginia (2008), District of Columbia (2009), Minnesota (2016), New York (2025)

Joined Clifford Chance as Partner 2023

Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) since 2007

IAPP - Certified Information Privacy Professional / US (CIPP/US) since 2007

IAPP - Certified Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) since 2024

Clarkson University (BA) 1998

George Washington University (MA) 2003

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School (JD) 2007