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Practice:

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

Sally Gorrin Counsel

Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining Orrick, Sally served as counsel at Buckley LLP and on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) at the United States Senate. During law school, she served as a summer law clerk to the Honorable Robert H. Hodges, Jr. at the United States Court of Federal Claims and interned at the Office of the Solicitor General at the United States Department of Justice.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Restructuring

Amy Pasacreta Of Counsel

New York

She advises investment banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds and other financial institutions on legal issues related to the purchase and sale of domestic and international par and distressed assets, including bilateral and syndicated loans, loan participations and derivative structured products. Amy also works with clients to structure deals involving preference, administrative and unsecured trade claims and assists clients in enforcing their rights in the bankruptcy case after the claims are purchased. She represents buy side and sell side clients in connection with private transfers of debt and equity securities, special situations investments, and transactional matters relative to in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Amy also has experience representing lenders on secured and unsecured financing transactions across a wide array of industries, including shipping, airline, energy and infrastructure.

Amy is a consensus builder with industry knowledge and working relationships with all major market players. She has extensive experience in the preparation and negotiation of bespoke documents under the LSTA and LMA regimes, and is routinely involved with cross-border transactions throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States. A seasoned practitioner, she coordinates efforts and resources across the firm to ensure transactions are handled efficiently.

Amy is an active member of the industry’s loan associations and provides training for in house counsel and operations teams at financial institutions.

Practice:

  • Geistiges Eigentum

Parth Sagdeo Senior Associate

Silicon Valley

Parth’s practice combines his deep technical knowledge and his passion for zealous oral and written advocacy. With the benefit of his Master’s degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and engineering experience at leading software companies including Microsoft and Synopsys, Parth dives into the technical weeds and distills the issues on which a case will turn. Informed by his experiences clerking at the District of Delaware and the Federal Circuit, he understands how to convey complex technical and legal concepts in a way that persuades juries and judges.

Parth has experience at all stages of trial and appellate practice. His recent achievements include invalidating a patent claim for indefiniteness, obtaining dismissal of tortious-interference and unfair competition claims brought by a competitor against his client, and securing affirmance of an inter partes reexamination decision in an appeal he argued at the Federal Circuit.

Parth graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he led the submissions team for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and won the Irving Oberman Memorial Award for best student paper in intellectual property. Prior to law school, Parth used his technical background in computer engineering to write, prosecute, and challenge patents for clients like Apple, Becton-Dickinson, Pixar, and Visa.

Practice:

  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Oil & Gas
  • Lateinamerika

Alexander A. Witt Senior Associate

London

Alexander has particular experience in investment claims arising out of regulatory changes to renewable energy incentive regimes and the enactment of environmental protection laws. He has represented investors, Latin American and Eastern European States in a variety of claims under domestic and international law, including high-profile and politically sensitive investment treaty cases (often involving issues of corruption).

In addition to his international arbitration experience, Alexander frequently advises clients on financial sanctions and export control issues across a range of sectors including oil & gas, infrastructure, and defence.

He is fluent in Spanish and has a good command of German. Alexander also speaks and writes on international arbitration related subjects.

464725

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Sadie Lister Managing Associate

Chicago

Sadie represents a broad range of clients in complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, commercial agreements and general corporate matters.

Practice:

  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • (Schieds ) Gerichtsverfahren

Aaron Brecher Senior Associate

Seattle

Aaron has defended criminal and civil enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Washington Attorney General's Office, and other state and federal agencies. He has also represented defendants in False Claims Act litigation initiated by private parties, as well as a broad range of other civil litigation. And he has conducted internal investigations on matters ranging from data breaches to harassment to suspected environmental testing fraud. 

740

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • International Trade and Investment
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Gregory I. Hume Economist & Compliance Spclst

Washington, D.C.

Greg assists in a variety of regulatory and investigatory activities relating to the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), export controls, economic sanctions and anti-boycott regulations, including the preparation of CFIUS Notices, voluntary disclosures, internal audit documentation and compliance policies and procedures.  He also actively participates in corporate transaction due diligence related to Trade Controls and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, as well as internal investigatory activities.

With over 20 years' experience in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations (and consequent administrative reviews) of unfairly-traded goods, Greg has been centrally involved in the statistical, economic and financial analysis of the confidential pricing, logistical, marketing and accounting information submitted by parties in such cases, as well as supporting the drafting and review of briefs and other pleadings filed by parties in the cases. Among the unfair trade cases in which he has participated are those involving crystalline solar voltaic panels, softwood lumber, warmwater shrimp, wooden bedroom furniture, outboard motors and various flat-rolled steel products.

Greg has frequently presented litigation-related testimony before the International Trade Administration and actively participates in representing firm clients before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the International Trade Commission, the Court of International Trade, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the World Trade Organization.

Greg actively participated in the negotiation of a major international trade agreement involving billions of dollars of trade, and the subsequent monitoring of that agreement. In binding arbitration emerging from that agreement, he developed a damages estimate adopted by the U.S. Government and accepted by the arbitral panel.

Greg also supports a variety of litigation efforts requiring data analysis, and has developed and analyzed damages estimates for various arbitration and litigation matters.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Restructuring

Nicholas Laveris Of Counsel

New York

Nicholas A. Laveris is Of Counsel in Orrick's Restructuring Group. Nick advises investment banks, commercial banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds and other financial institutions on legal issues related to the purchase and sale of domestic and international par and distressed assets, including bilateral loans, syndicated loans, loan participations and derivative structured products.

Nick also represents clients in the purchase and sale of claims in bankruptcy, including administrative claims and trade claims. In addition, Nick represents clients in the purchase and sale of securities and other equity instruments arising out of restructurings and bankruptcy proceedings. Nick has extensive experience in working on transactions under the LSTA and LMA regimes, as well as negotiating bespoke documentation. Nick's work involves transactions throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia and the United States. Nick is an active member of the Loan Syndications and Trade Association and the Loan Market Association.

Prior to joining Orrick, Nick was an associate at Mayer Brown LLP.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Restructuring

Matthew Fechik Sr Distressed Trade Car Assoc

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

The Restructuring Group advises banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other entities on legal issues relating to the purchase and sale of syndicated loans, bankruptcy claims, and other alternative investments. Matthew's practice focuses on distressed debt trading.

During law school Matthew completed internships with Alcoa's Corporate Tax Department and Neighborhood Legal Services Association.

Practice:

  • Technology Transactions
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Julia Apostle Partner

Paris

Julia counsels on compliance issues in relation to European and French tech and data regulations, including:

  • the GDPR;
  • the Digital Services Act;
  • the EU AI Act and the regulation of AI more generally,
  • the Data Act;
  • the Cyber Resilience Act;
  • the NIS2 Directive;

and other new and emerging legislation impacting online platforms, technology developers, and eCommerce businesses. She advises companies of all sizes on a wide range of compliance matters, ranging the drafting of internal policies, to assisting with regulatory investigations, product counseling and regulatory engagement.

In the context of strategic transactions covering significant and complex technological issues, she is involved in the drafting and negotiation of agreements relating to data transfer, IT, software, content and brand licensing.

Julia is deeply familiar with the commercial considerations’ clients face, having practiced in-house at Twitter, Financial Times and CBS for more than a decade prior to joining Orrick. Julia also teaches a course on AI contracts for the Master's program in AI Law at a leading French university and acts as a mentor for students.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Technology Transactions
  • Technology Companies Group
  • White Collar
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Dr. Christian Schröder Partner

Düsseldorf

Dr. Schröder berät Mandanten zu den Auswirkungen neuer Technologien im Recht der Daten. Dies betrifft Datenschutzrecht, Cyber, IP und die zahlreichen neuen EU-Vorgaben für den Umgang mit Daten sowie der künstlichen Intelligenz. Außerdem unterstützt er sie bei ihren Compliance-Programmen und hilft ihnen, in aufsichtsbehördlichen Verfahren oder vor Gericht. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeit liegt auf internen Datenübertragungsvereinbarungen, externen Datenübertragungen mit externen Anbietern und Produkteinführungen, die internationalen Datenschutzstandards entsprechen, sowie auf den Datenschutzanforderungen für vernetzte Autos. Darüber hinaus berät er Unternehmen in Fragen des Datenrechts bei der Entwicklung, dem Erwerb, der Nutzung, der Lizenzierung und dem Verkauf von Technologien, Daten und geistigem Eigentum, einschließlich M&A-Transaktionen und Joint Ventures mit Schwerpunkt auf geistigem Eigentum. Weiterhin unterstützt er bei Verträgen über Hard- und Softwarelizenzen und IT-Projekte (Informationstechnologie).

Dr. Schröder unterhält enge Arbeitsbeziehungen zu deutschen Datenschutzbehörden und EU-Aufsichtsbehörden, die für Fragen des Datenrechts zuständig sind. Er verteidigt Unternehmen effektiv bei Untersuchungen von Aufsichtsbehörden und auch bei Fragen zur Cybersicherheit und zum Datenschutz. Er verhandelt mit Behörden im Namen seiner Mandanten und hilft ihnen, Verfahren und mögliche Rechtsstreitigkeiten zu vermeiden. Wenn sich ein Rechtsstreit nicht vermeiden lässt, verteidigt Dr. Schröder seine Klienten mit Nachdruck.

Unternehmen, die mit globalen Cybersecurity-Vorfällen konfrontiert sind, hilft Dr. Schröder bei der Krisenbewältigung. Dies umfasst unter anderem die Beratung zu Datenpannenmeldungen, Koordination von Medienstrategien und die Vertretung vor Datenschutzbehörden bei entsprechenden regulatorischen Untersuchungen.

Dr. Schröder schreibt regelmäßig nützliche Beiträge für internationale Medien und deutsche Datenschutzbücher und -zeitschriften. Er ist Autor des Kapitels V (Internationale Datenübermittlung) des führenden deutschen GDPR-Kommentars Kühling/Buchner (4. Auflage) und Mitautor des Handbuchs Betrieblicher Datenschutz. Als aktives Mitglied der Sedona-Conference treibt Dr. Schröder die Entwicklung und das Verständnis von grenzüberschreitendem Datenschutz voran. Er ist regelmäßig Gastgeber oder Moderator von Vortragsreihen zum Daten- Cyber- oder AI-Recht, die er mit Kollegen aus anderen Kanzleien, Mitgliedern von Datenschutzbehörden und anderen Akademikern abhält.

Legal 500 Deutschland hat Dr. Schröder zu einem der 15 besten Anwälte im Jahr 2023 ernannt und bezeichnet ihn als einen „Pionier auf dem Gebiet des Datenschutzes“. Dr. Schröder und Orrick werden für den internationalen Beratungsansatz gelobt und für ihre Fähigkeit jederzeit Thought Leaders unterschiedlicher Regionen zur Diskussion herausfordernder Anforderungen an einen gemeinsamen Tisch zu bringen.

 

Vor seiner Tätigkeit als Wirtschaftsanwalt absolvierte Dr. Schröder ein Praktikum beim deutschen Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragten und bei www.epic.org.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Transactions
  • Geistiges Eigentum
  • Patents
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Benedikt Migdal Partner

Düsseldorf

Benedikt Migdal berät bei der Strukturierung und Verhandlung von IP-Themen in Unternehmenstransaktionen, einschließlich M&A, Divestments und Venture-Investitionen, sowie sonstige Transaktionen, bei denen IP-Rechte und Know-how von wesentlicher Bedeutung sind. Seine Arbeit umfasst zum Beispiel IP-Lizenz- und Technologietransferverträge, Verträge über technische Dienstleistungen, Transition Service Agreements, F&E-Kooperationen und IP-Aspekte von Verträgen im Life-Science-Bereich.

Benedikt Migdal verfügt zudem über langjährige Erfahrung bei der Führung von Patentverletzungsprozessen und Verfahren wegen der Verletzung von Geschäftsgeheimnissen. Er hat deutsche und internationale Mandanten aus einer Reihe von Branchen in komplexen Streitigkeiten vertreten, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit Patenten und Know-how aus den Bereichen mobile Telekommunikation/Konnektivität und Life Sciences.

Aufgrund seiner Erfahrung sowohl bei IP-Transaktionen als auch bei streitigen Auseinandersetzungen hat er ein umfassendes Verständnis für die vielfältigen rechtlichen und wirtschaftlichen Fragestellungen, mit denen technologiegetriebene Unternehmen im Zusammenhang mit geistigem Eigentum konfrontiert sind. Dazu gehören auch kartellrechtliche Fragen an der Schnittstelle zum Recht des geistigen Eigentums, insbesondere betreffend standardessentielle Patente und deren faire, angemessene und nicht-diskriminierende (FRAND) Lizenzierung.