People

Nicole Ries Fox カウンセル

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Nicole is an experienced trial attorney and appellate advocate who has represented private and public entities on appeal and in high impact litigation in federal and state courts. She has a track record of providing clients with thoughtful guidance, effective writing, and strategic representation on complex and high profile matters at all stages of litigation, including in the United States Supreme Court. 

Prior to joining Orrick, Nicole served as a Bristow Fellow in the United States Office of the Solicitor General, and worked as a trial and appellate litigator for several leading national law firms, She has also served as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California, where she represented the United States as the lead attorney in over 70 criminal appeals.  

Nicole received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where she received the Thelen Marin Prize for Academic Achievement. She clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Francesco Laurenti アソシエイト

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He advises major domestic and international corporations and financial institutions and underwriters in relation to capital markets deals including public offerings, EMTN, ECP Programmes, standalone issuance and liability management exercises.

He also advises lenders and financial institutions in relation to the development, acquisition, financing and refinancing of energy and transport infrastructure including airports and toll roads.

He also some experience in advising on financial and corporate transactions, including investments in share capital and the establishment of joint ventures with a particular focus on the environmental transition sector, and specific expertise in matters related to the plastics industry.

He adopts a practical, client-focused approach, combined with considerable expertise in assessing complex Italian legal issues.

Lars Knechtel Career Associate

デュッセルドルフ

He advises technology companies from their incorporation through their first financing rounds into the growth phase, as well as on internationalization projects and Delaware flip transactions.

Lars works with VCs, as well as corporate venture capital investors on their investments in German start-ups and scale-ups.

Prior to joining Orrick, Lars worked as an inhouse lawyer at a global communications and advertising group of companies.

Eugenio Zupo シニア・アソシエイト

ミラノ

Eugenio has experience in a broad range of corporate law matters, including complex group reorganizations across multiple jurisdictions and joint ventures. Eugenio has advised on deals for strategic investors and private equity houses in a variety of sectors including, energy, oil& gas, industrials, automotive, composite materials, food and technology.

Tyler Conte シニア・アソシエイト

Houston; Miami

Tyler structures and negotiates a broad range of strategic transactions on behalf of sponsors, investors and lenders, including tax equity, cash equity, and debt financings, tax credit transfers, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures at both the company and project levels. He also negotiates project contracts for renewable energy projects and transactions with respect to the financing and development of satellites, data centers and other digital infrastructure assets.

Francesco Macri オブ・カウンセル

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With an extensive experience and a deep understanding of the real estate market, Francesco regularly advises national and international institutional investors, funds, developers and managers in the context of real estate purchases and sales, contributions in real estate funds, development transactions and in the management and coordination of complex domestic and cross-border portfolio transactions, in all asset classes, including logistics, office, hospitality & leisure (including camping), residential, student housing and retail.

Throughout his career, Francesco has also assisted clients in the management, commercializaton and development of their real estate assets, in connection with corporate leases and rentals, private contracts, management agreements and all types of real estate service contracts.

Mark Johnson オブ・カウンセル

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Mark assists office holders across a broad range of asset recovery actions, including investigations into antecedent transactions and other claims against directors and third parties, as well as advising directors defending such claims. Mark has deep experience in enforcement work on behalf of banks and lenders including Law of Property Act receiverships.

Mark's non-contentious work includes significant experience on transactional matters such as assisting on both the buy and sell side of 'pre-pack' administration sales and other insolvency sales, advising on restructuring options for companies in distress including voluntary arrangements, schemes, and consensual restructuring proposals as well as advisory work assisting companies and their directors on the duties they have when facing financial difficulties.

Payam Mehr Technology Specialist

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Prior to joining Orrick, Payam was a Principal Engineer at Skyworks Solutions, where he worked on the design and optimization of next-generation radio frequency front-ends for mobile and IoT devices, electromagnetic interference analysis and module design. He also served as a Principal Engineer at GlobalFoundries, developing automotive radar and wireless transceiver building blocks and supporting IP strategy through invention disclosures and cross-functional R&D initiatives. During his time at GlobalFoundries, Payam was involved in securing a $217M design win as part of a collaborative team.

Payam received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University and his MSc from the University of Illinois Chicago. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Irvine, working on RF and analog integrated circuits for cellular applications.

Jean Gabriel Javier Caraballo アソシエイト

Paris Tech Studio; パリ

From Orrick Paris Tech Studio, Jean Gabriel advises startups, tech companies as well as VC funds on fundraisings, helping them navigate complex legal challenges. 

Jean Gabriel supports founders, tech companies, and venture capital investors throughout their growth journey, covering areas such as corporate governance, incentive schemes, and M&A transactions.

Stanley Dirks シニア・カウンセル

サンフランシスコ

He represents issuers and underwriters of tax-exempt bonds to finance a variety of public facilities and programs, including water and power systems, airports, schools, rental housing loan programs and homeownership loan programs.

Stan has served as a lecturer and panelist on a variety of programs concerning state and local government debt issuance. He also served for ten years as one of the original members of the Technical Advisory Committee of the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.

Stan also has a long history of involvement in the governance of nonprofit education, arts and other charitable organizations.

Thomas Pozzi アソシエイト

ロンドン

Tom has experience representing resource companies and private clients in project, real estate and development financing. He has a strong background in drafting financial instruments and advising clients on security compliance and asset protection.

Tom Chen オブ・カウンセル

オレンジ・カウンティ

Tom joined Orrick after serving for several years as an investigative attorney in the Office of Unfair Import Investigations at the U.S. International Trade Commission, where he was lead counsel representing the public interest in numerous Section 337 investigations involving allegations of patent infringement, trade dress infringement, and false advertising. During his tenure as an investigative attorney, Tom successfully first-chaired numerous evidentiary hearings and claim construction hearings, and he also was responsible for briefing all procedural and merits issues before the administrative law judges and the Commission.

Before his government service, Tom was associated with international law firms, where he successfully litigated life sciences patent matters involving large molecule and small molecule therapeutics in patent infringement disputes in district court, inter partes review proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and patent appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Early in his career, Tom served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Alvin A. Schall of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and to the Honorable Leonard P. Stark, then of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Tom earned his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review and the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology, and won numerous internal and external writing awards and competitions. Before law school, Tom completed a master’s degree in biotechnology from the Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and pharmacology from Duke University.