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New York - Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Brian Margolis has joined the firm's New York office as a partner in its Corporate Practice Group.

"With Brian's arrival, we further our goal of expanding our New York corporate practice and add to Orrick's capabilities to represent public companies and handle significant capital market transactions in New York," said Don Keller, chair of Orrick's Corporate Practice Group.  "Additionally, Brian's extensive work with emerging companies offers a natural synergy with our thriving practice in Silicon Valley."

Margolis' practice focuses on corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on public offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues and general corporate counseling.  He has experience advising private and public companies ranging in size from start-up and emerging growth companies to established publicly-traded companies, in the e-commerce, information technology, life sciences, media, software, telecommunications and wireless industries.  Margolis represents domestic and foreign issuers and underwriters in public offerings of equity securities.  He has served as issuer's counsel or underwriter's counsel for more than 40 public offerings which have raised in excess of $3 billion.  Margolis counsels public companies regarding disclosure, compliance, and other securities law issues, and counsels their boards of directors with respect to corporate governance and fiduciary duty issues.  He was formerly a partner with WilmerHale's New York Corporate group.

"I was drawn to Orrick because of its reputation as one of the leading law firms representing emerging companies in the U.S.," said Margolis. "I look forward to further building Orrick's corporate practice in New York and globally."

Orrick's Corporate Group is noted for its premier practices in emerging companies, capital markets, M&A, corporate governance and technology transactions across industry sectors, including technology, energy, consumer/retail, real estate, financial services, life sciences and manufacturing.  Orrick's globally-recognized emerging companies practice represents more than 700 emerging company clients and the world's leading venture capital firms.  Our capital markets lawyers advised issuers and underwriters in recent debt, equity and equity-related offerings totaling more than $20 billion in proceeds, including listings on NASDAQ, NYSE, AIM (London Stock Exchange) and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.  M&A engagements in 2008-2009 ranged from advising Telenor SA in the $23.8 billion combination of its mobile assets in Russia and Ukraine with those of Altimo to form VimpelCom, to advising Orrick clients in their acquisitions by eBay, Google, Microsoft, Myspace, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, Verizon Wireless, The Walt Disney Company and Yahoo.

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