Gina has extensive experience representing high‑growth companies in corporate partnering, strategic alliances, technology licensing, and IP‑driven M&A and financing transactions, with a particular emphasis on life sciences collaborations and platform deals. She also counsels venture capital investors and public companies on the intellectual property, technology, and privacy and data protection aspects of investments and acquisitions.
Known for her pragmatic approach and industry insight, Gina draws on years of experience structuring and negotiating complex deals for hundreds of innovative companies, including at her prior firm where she co‑chaired their Strategic Transactions and Licensing Group. She works closely with Orrick’s venture capital, M&A, and emerging company teams to deliver business‑minded solutions that help clients scale efficiently, manage risk, and achieve their strategic objectives.
Gina has negotiated significant commercial and strategic transactions with many of the world’s leading life sciences, healthcare, technology, financial services, and consumer products companies. Her experience spans a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on life sciences and healthcare, and includes fintech, consumer technology, and enterprise software, across complex platform and field‑limited licenses, strategic distribution and co‑branding arrangements, and content and talent collaborations.
In addition to her client work, Gina is a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches Fundamentals of Technology Transactions. She has been recognized among “Women Leaders in Tech Law” for her work in intellectual property, privacy, and technology transactions, and is CIPP/US‑certified.
Gina is a former Division I athlete, having swum on athletic scholarship for the University of California, Berkeley.
She advises both private operators, such as sponsors and lenders, and public operators on all issues relating to project development, as well as the regulatory aspects of activities and transactions in the infrastructure and energy sectors.
Inès is involved in public contracts, notably concession and PPP contracts for major projects. She assists public operators and consortiums in the award of these contracts, from the bidding phase to the post-award phase, and during the performance phase.
Her practice also covers energy law, in particular renewable energies, as well as regulatory issues relating to regulated activities. Inès regularly advises operators on complex issues relating to connection to electricity distribution and transmission networks. She also advises operators, sponsors and lenders on project development and M&A transactions for wind and solar assets and methanization.
Inès advises and also handles litigation in these sectors.
Prior to joining Orrick, Inès gained significant experience working as a project finance lawyer for a major construction company, then as a lawyer for a French law firm.
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