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Nige Tranter Chief Digital Officer

London

Specifically, Nige and his Orrick team are focused on four questions:

  • How can we continually improve our use of data, providing sophisticated analytics, insights and data-driven decision making?
  • How can we use AI to support the business?
  • How do we adapt to the digital workplace, continuing to evolve and embed emerging digital capabilities in conjunction with increasing digital skills for our team?
  • How can we reimagine existing business processes, ensuring they are optimized and fit for purpose?

He collaborates closely with Orrick’s Chief Innovation Officer Wendy Curtis, Chief Technology Officer Justin Graham and the firm’s leadership to answer these questions and deploy solutions.

Nige is a seasoned technology and innovation leader. He draws on extensive experience in the financial sector, including serving for four years as Chief Information Officer at Gulf Bank in Kuwait and for 10 years as the Chief Architect for EMEA at Barclays. He also served as Chief Technology Officer at Pinsent Masons.

Nige serves on several legal technology advisory boards and is a judge for the British Legal Technology Awards, an accredited One Million Mentor and an ambassador for Stemnet in the UK.

During time off, you’ll find Nige usually on a cycle or trekking with his dog. He has also been known on occasion to take part in Sportives and playing cricket.

Hichem Hadj Abdelkader Associate

Paris

Hichem advises French and international groups and private equity funds on transactional tax matters.

He assists companies with their development in France and abroad, with mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and refinancing, and with tax audits and litigation matters.

Additionally, he assists in the structuring and implementation of employee stock offerings and management packages.

Hichem also advises individuals on the management and transfer of their assets.

Prior to joining Orrick, Hichem was a trainee at leading French law firms and worked in the tax department of a top-tier French bank.

Practice:

  • Compensation & Benefits

Karen S. Cannon Managing Associate

Silicon Valley

Her practice focuses on the compensation and benefit issues of technology companies.

She advises on the design, administration and implementation of executive and equity compensation arrangements, including equity plans, retention plans, change of control and severance arrangements and executive employment and separation agreements.

She represents clients during the life cycle of corporate transactions: financings, mergers and acquisitions, secondary offerings, SPAC transactions and the preparation for public listing.

She has particular interest in implementing equity and executive compensation arrangements for global subsidiaries and service providers.

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Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Fintech

Manley Williams Partner

Washington, D.C.

Manley has extensive experience working with clients to develop credit programs, simplify credit agreements, adapt procedures for online and mobile environments, and implement, improve and amend customer rewards programs. She also helps companies sell their products over time, whether traditional banks with credit cards, online lenders with installment loans, startups with charge cards or merchants with installment plans. She helps companies navigate the federal and state law governing credit, licensing, prohibitions on unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) and limitations on lending to the military and compliance with antidiscrimination laws.

She helps institutions evaluate fair lending issues in judgmental underwriting, advises financial institutions where to locate their card issuing banks to benefit from state laws on the exportation of interest rates and assists merchants and emerging companies with implementing their credit programs. Manley assists lenders in revising and refining key operational processes, disclosures and customer agreements necessitated by changing legal standards. She also conducts training for in-house counsel on legal developments in the credit card industry, including compliance with emerging UDAAP standards.

Prior to joining Orrick, Manley was a partner at Buckley LLP. She was also counsel with Wilmer Cutler Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP, and a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Board’s (FRB) Legal Division and Division of Consumer and Community Affairs, where she advised financial institutions on compliance with regulations including Regulations Z (Truth in Lending Act (TILA)), B (Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)), E (Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA)), and CC (Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks).

Manley organizes and hosts card roundtables at which industry leaders discuss emerging issues in a congenial environment. She has a particular interest in financial literacy and is a frequent presenter at public schools in the greater Washington, D.C., area, instructing students and teachers in understanding and using credit and debit cards, mobile phone plans and other common consumer credit vehicles.

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Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology Companies Group

Gilbert Harrold Associate

London

Gilbert has experience in cross-border and domestic transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, and investments, primarily within the technology sector. He advises companies and investors on venture capital and growth equity transactions, covering early-stage financings, institutional funding rounds, bridge financings, secondary transactions, and exits.

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Practice:

  • Mass Torts & Product Liability
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

C. Anne Malik Partner

Washington, D.C.

Anne represents clients in product liability cases with high potential damages, multiple jurisdictions and plaintiffs, and significant risk to critical product lines.   She also assists clients with risk analyses involving product liability exposure related to expansions in distribution areas, cross-border sales, and new product lines.

Anne is a member of teams representing product liability clients that include a Fortune 500 chemical company, a European pharmaceutical distributor, and a key defendant in asbestos litigation across the country.  She is experienced in matters involving a wide variety of issues, including medical monitoring, stream of commerce liability (including across international borders), premises liability, and successor liability.   

Anne also works with Orrick's Public Policy group assisting clients with developing strategies to solve high-stakes issues in state legislatures, and with state Attorneys General.  Anne works with teams representing clients that include the country's biggest telecommunications company and an industry-leading satellite TV company.

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Practice:

  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Technology Transactions
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Geistiges Eigentum

Alex Sobolev Partner

London

Alex’s multidisciplinary practice and transatlantic experience enable him to provide strategic commercial advice for technology led companies, including coordinating and implementing data and consumer risk mitigation projects, providing outsourcing advice and developing key legal risk mitigation strategies in relation to products where the pace of innovation nearly always outpaces the law.

He has advised companies at all stages of the corporate lifecycle, from software development and product launch, through technology licensing, sale and purchase, to mergers and acquisitions of data and tech-heavy businesses. He has assisted organisations with the design, development and implementation of global data protection and compliance policies, as well the management of risk and security associated with data retention, processing and transfer.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Steuern
  • Real Estate
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Funds

Grady Bolding Senior Counsel

San Francisco

He has extensive M&A experience involving numerous types of business. He has particular experience in the area of the taxation of REITs, having represented both public and private REITs for many years, and in the area of real estate transactions and partnerships. Grady's private investment fund practice includes the representation of real estate funds, venture capital funds and hedge funds, as well as institutional investors in such funds. 

Prior to joining Orrick, Grady worked for the firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, where he served on the firm’s Executive Committee and as Chair of the Tax Group.

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Practice:

  • Geistiges Eigentum
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Patents
  • Patent & Intellectual Property Rights Appeals
  • Inter Partes Review (IPR)
  • Trade Secrets Litigation

Jordan Fernandes Senior Associate

New York

Jordan has represented clients in an array of intellectual property disputes, including those involving patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and trademark infringement. He has also represented clients in disputes involving intellectual property licenses. Jordan has practiced in various federal district courts, as well as before the Federal Circuit, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the International Trade Commission, achieving successful outcomes for both plaintiffs and defendants at jury and bench trials alike.

In addition to his work in the life sciences sector, Jordan has substantial experience in the technology sector. He has litigated intellectual property disputes related to energy storage, OLED displays, base station antennas, fiber optics, and video game rendering. Jordan has also counseled clients on intellectual property licensing, patent prosecution and portfolio management, and intellectual property and information technology issues arising in commercial transactions.

Jordan maintains a robust pro bono practice and is currently involved in litigation concerning reproductive rights. He previously litigated claims of racial discrimination by police, which resulted in criminal justice reform within the police department. Jordan also helped exonerate a pro bono client, who had spent over 16 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit.

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Capital Markets

Adrian Dengler Counsel

München

Adrian vertritt Mandanten bei nationalen und grenzüberschreitenden Transaktionen, insbesondere lokale und internationale Unternehmen, Private Equity/Venture Funds und Wachstumsunternehmen.

Adrian Dengler agiert zusätzlich als Business Angel für mehrere Venture-Capital-Start-up-Unternehmen .

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • Finance

Jungyoon Yang Associate

Washington, D.C.

Jungyoon’s practice focuses on corporate transactions in the renewable energy sector, with a focus on project finance and development. She advises clients in debt and tax equity financings, tax credit transfers, project acquisitions and sales and development of solar and wind projects.

Prior to joining Orrick, Jungyoon was a finance associate at a leading U.S. based international law firm. Before practicing law, Jungyoon worked at a leading Korean airline company and as an intern at an international consulting company in Seoul, Korea.