People

Alexis White マネージング・アソシエイト

Washington, D.C.

Alexis focuses on intellectual property litigation. She develops litigation strategies in cases that implicate issues related to patent infringement and trade secrets misappropriation. She has represented clients in connection with a broad spectrum of technologies in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries.

Prior to joining Orrick, Alexis was an associate at Crowell & Moring. Alexis is a recipient of the Sidney B. Williams Intellectual Property Law Scholarship and the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association’s Dean’s Award. She served as the editor-in-chief of the North Carolina Central University Science and Intellectual Property Law Review and as the president of the Intellectual Property Society.

Anika Nayyar マネージング・アソシエイト

サンフランシスコ

Anika's practice focuses on corporate and securities law, including general corporate representation, public offerings, and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions on both the buy side and sell side.

Prior to joining Orrick, Anika was a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Sullivan Berthier マネージング・アソシエイト

パリ

Sullivan's interest in cross-border venture capital transactions prompted him joining the Paris Technology Companies Group after practicing as a venture capital and emerging companies attorney in New York at the Fenwick & West law firm.

Ashlie J. Smith シニア・アソシエイト

Boston

Ashlie grew up in a family of restaurant franchisees, and she learned about the power of a strong trademark at a young age. This understanding led her to pursue a career in trademark and copyright law, and from her start as a trademark prosecution intern at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in law school, through her work in trademark and copyright litigation at Fish & Richardson P.C., her practice has always focused on assisting businesses with their intellectual property needs.  

Ashlie’s practice at Orrick focuses on domestic and international trademark and copyright prosecution and counseling. She has experience assisting businesses ranging from small start-ups to multi-billion dollar corporations with trademark clearance, protection, and strategy. Additionally, Ashlie has extensive experience in intellectual property litigation in federal district courts and at the International Trade Commission. Because of her wide-range of experience, she brings to each matter a unique understanding of the intersection of copyright and trademark clearance and prosecution and enforcement and litigation.      

Hector O. Rodriguez シニア・アソシエイト

シリコン・バレー

Laura Rose (Bloxham) Barr パートナー

シアトル

Laura is a founding member of Orrick’s technology companies practice in the Pacific Northwest. She is passionate about working with women founders, other underrepresented entrepreneurs, and double bottom line companies. People who think differently, and set out to create impact, inspire her.

She represents companies and their investors in a variety of verticals, including AI & Machine Learning (Anthropic), consumer applications (AppSheet, Life360, Mylio), education technology (Go1), financial technology (SoFi), information security (Stairwell) and life sciences (Cortexyme, Inmedix), among others. 

Prior to joining Orrick, Laura worked in New York as a leveraged finance attorney at Milbank, and in-house at Goldman Sachs and the New York Stock Exchange. In addition to start-up representation, she regularly provides pro bono legal advice to charitable organizations regarding non-profit incorporation and tax exemption applications.

Meghan Conway Senior Environmental Social and Governance Research Analyst

シアトル

Prior to Orrick, Meghan worked at Ramboll, a global engineering, architecture, and consulting company. Meghan worked as an ESG and Sustainability consultant based in the Seattle office, where she served as the local subject matter contact for a global team of environmentally-focused ESG experts. In her role, Meghan delivered buy-side ESG due diligence assessments for private equity clients and assisted corporate clients with ESG program development through priority assessments, target setting exercises, disclosure framework alignment, and ESG report writing. In addition, Meghan worked with colleagues to develop competencies related to ESG, climate, air quality, and environmental justice deliverables. Meghan has worked for clients in several industries, including healthcare, food products, infrastructure, and beauty.

Meghan is a thought leader in environmental justice, and presented on the nascent state of environmental justice, corporate attention and regulation at the Pacific Northwest International Section (PNWIS) of Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in October 2022.

Lawrence Burns マネージング・アソシエイト

ロサンゼルス

In addition to data innovation, privacy, and cybersecurity work, Lawrence has handled diverse intellectual property and civil litigation matters in federal and state courts. His litigation experience includes patent infringement, trademark/trade dress infringement, ITC investigations, and complex commercial litigation.

Magda Gathani マネージング・アソシエイト

Washington, D.C.

Magda advises payments companies and commercial clients engaged in money transmission with regard to federal and state compliance, including the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), anti-money-laundering (AML) laws, licensing obligations and consumer compliance. She also counsels clients on consumer privacy issues arising from the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and Regulation P, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Rules, and other state and federal laws that address data privacy and information security.

Prior to joining Orrick, Magda was an associate at Buckley LLP.

She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

Robert Trust パートナー

New York

The principal focus of his practice has been the representation of private credit lenders, private funds, and other alternative lenders in providing credit to borrowers in special situations in a wide range of businesses and industries, including pharmaceuticals, maritime, aviation, healthcare, automatic, energy, steel, retain, financial, media, entertainment and telecom. In addition, Robert regularly represents ad hoc groups of creditors in chapter 11 restructurings and out-of-court workouts.

Work Highlights:

• A private credit lender in connection with a factoring facility to a pharmaceutical company.
• A private credit lender in connection with a potential DIP receivables financing facility to a chapter 11 debtor.
• An ad hoc group of secured lenders to Nordic Aviation Capital, an aircraft leasing company, in connection with a pre-packaged chapter 11 case.
• A private credit lender in connection with a new receivables facility platform.
• Sound Point Capital Management acting as the exit lender under a $425 million trade receivables facility to Centric Brands in connection with its emergence from chapter 11.
• A private credit lender in connection with the chapter 11 restructuring of Vewd Software AS (and subsequent M&A transaction of Vewd Software to Xperi, Inc.).
• An ad hoc group of noteholders in connection with the chapter 11 cases of Toys R Us.

Please note: Robert’s experience includes that prior to joining Orrick.

Mitchell Grod Senior Counsel, Chief Legal Content Officer & Counsel to Winnow

Santa Monica

His clients include depository institutions, mortgage lenders and brokers, automobile lenders and finance companies, debt collectors and related service providers. He has significant experience advising clients on a myriad of state and federal regulatory matters.

Mitch is a member of the American Financial Services Association’s State Governmental Affairs Committee and Operations and Regulatory Compliance Committee. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America as "One to Watch."

Prior to joining Orrick, Mitch was senior counsel at Buckley LLP.

View Mitch's webcasts & speaking engagements, news mentions and publications.

Lauren Seaton シニア・アソシエイト

オレンジ・カウンティ

She represents companies and individuals in a variety of litigation matters, including white collar criminal defense, intellectual property matters, and general litigation. Prior to joining the White Collar and Securities Litigation Group, Lauren was a member of Orrick's Intellectual Property Group. She currently maintains a substantial trademark prosecution portfolio, counseling clients with the acquisition and protection of their intellectual property rights.