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David Song Senior Associate

Los Angeles

David guides states, counties, cities, school districts, large nonprofit organizations, underwriters, and borrowers to help them successfully finance infrastructure and capital improvement projects. His experience includes general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, letters of credit, certificates of participation, and tax and revenue anticipation notes. 

David assists clients throughout the financing process, from conducting due diligence reviews and ensuring compliance with state, local, and federal laws to drafting offering documents and researching complex legal issues. He has supported financings for some of the largest issuers in California, such as the State of California, the City of Los Angeles, the City of San Diego, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Prior to joining the firm, David worked on complex tax and regulatory compliance projects for public, private, and government clients, and prepared and reviewed corporate, pass-through, and individual amended tax returns, and represented clients in examinations before the IRS and California Franchise Tax Board.

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Practice:

  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung

Ramona Sorgenfrei Managing Associate

Düsseldorf

Besondere Erfahrung hat sie mit Lizenzstreitigkeiten im Telekommunikationssektor und der Geltendmachung von FRAND-Einwendungen in Patentverletzungsverfahren sowie mit D&O-Streitigkeiten und Streitigkeiten nach dem UN-Kaufrecht.

Ramona Sorgenfrei verfügt über Erfahrung in Schiedsverfahren nach den Regeln der DIS, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL VIAC und der ungarischen Handelskammer (ACHCCI) sowie als Administrative Secretary von Schiedsgerichten nach verschiedenen internationalen Schiedsregeln.

Sie ist Lehrbeauftragte für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit und Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht an der Universität Bayreuth, wo sie auch die Teams der Universität im Willem C. Vis Moot, dem weltgrößten und renommiertesten zivilrechtlichen Moot Court, betreut.

Neben ihrem juristischen Studium hat Ramona Sorgenfrei ein wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zusatzstudium abgeschlossen. Während ihrer Ausbildung war sie in US-Kanzleien in Deutschland und Paris tätig und vertiefte dort ihre Kenntnisse in den Bereichen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, Prozessführung und Streitbeilegung. Vor ihrem Eintritt bei Orrick war sie als Rechtsanwältin für eine Magic-Circle-Kanzlei im Bereich Prozessführung tätig, einschließlich Patentverletzungs-, Patentnichtigkeits- und Patentvindikationsverfahren, vor allem in den Bereichen Telekommunikation und Automotive.

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

Kayla Z. X. Southworth Senior Associate

New York

Kayla advises public and private life sciences, technology, and energy companies, and private equity funds and their portfolio companies, on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, minority and majority investments, joint ventures, licenses, collaborations, royalty and revenue-sharing financings, and other complex transactions. She also advises clients on New York and Delaware corporate, partnership, limited liability company, and non-profit law, including corporate governance and fiduciary duty matters.

Prior to joining Orrick, she was an Antitrust Associate at Davis Polk and a Litigation Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group

Manon Speich Senior Associate

Paris; Paris Tech Studio

Manon advises startups and high growth technology companies in raising capital and building their businesses from formation through exit. She assists founders developing and implementing effective corporate governance strategies throughout the life of their startup and issuing customized equity instruments for their fundraising. 

Before joining Orrick, Manon worked as an M&A and Private Equity attorney at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in Paris.

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Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Blockchain & Digital Assets
  • Japan
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Ben Spitz Counsel

Tokio

Ben works with innovative technology companies and the investors who back them, focusing on those that operate in the blockchain, web3, NFT, and cryptocurrency sectors or have a relationship to Japan.

Drawing from his in-house experience at a global cryptocurrency exchange, Ben has a keen understanding of the challenges faced by high-growth companies developing transformative technologies and products in a regulated industry. He has also gained insight into both the Silicon Valley and Japanese tech and venture ecosystems, having previously worked in the Palo Alto office of another major law firm before practicing in Japan.

 

Not admitted in Japan.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

Stephen Spitz Partner

San Francisco

Steve serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel in a variety of municipal enterprise revenue bond issuances, including financing for water, wastewater, solid waste and airport facilities. His practice is, in addition, focused on single family and multifamily affordable housing financings. Steve also has extensive experience in higher education financings, interest rate swaps and swap based products in the municipal market. He often assumes a leading role in bond and disclosure work for new and complex clients.

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Christopher Sprado, LL.M. (University of Virginia) Partner

Düsseldorf

Christopher Sprado greift auf eine langjährige Erfahrung bei der Beratung von multinationalen Unternehmen und internationalen Investoren bei ihren wichtigsten Transaktionen und strategischen Herausforderungen zurück. Seine Mandanten schätzen dabei insbesondere seinen Pragmatismus und seine Fähigkeit, komplexe Fragestellungen auf das Wesentliche zu reduzieren und einer effizienten Lösung zuzuführen.

Bevor er sich im Jahr 2021 Orrick angeschlossen hat, war Christopher Sprado rund zehn Jahre als Rechtsanwalt bei Linklaters LLP tätig und hat in dieser Zeit u.a. Secondments bei zwei großen deutschen börsennotierten Unternehmen absolviert.

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Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity

Sitraka St. Michael Managing Associate

New York

Sitraka concentrates his practice on representing public and private companies, private equity funds and private credit funds in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers, take-private deals, carveouts, reorganizations, joint ventures and other complex investment transactions. Sitraka also counsels clients with respect to corporate and governance matters.

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung
  • Interne Revision
  • Energy
  • Oil & Gas
  • Infrastructure

Benjamin Stafford Managing Associate

London

Ben is admitted as a solicitor advocate with rights of audience in all civil proceedings before the English higher courts. In addition to his core experience in international arbitration and litigation in the energy, construction and commercial spheres, previously Ben has also acted for energy & infrastructure clients and advised on mergers & acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions for clients based in Europe and the US.  Ben is currently deputy chair for the Association of International Energy Negotiators sub-group drafting a Green Hydrogen Sale and Purchase Agreement.

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Practice:

  • Corporate Governance
  • Private Equity
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Wallace Stage Associate

Miami

Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and securities transactions. She also counsels clients on corporate governance matters.

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Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Sky Stallbaumer Associate, Currently on client secondment

New York

Sky's practice focuses on general corporate representation, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, both buy side and sell side.

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Steuern
  • Public Finance

John Stanley Partner

San Francisco

In his municipal finance practice, John has served as bond counsel, special tax counsel and underwriter’s counsel for a variety of transactions, including particularly governmental, airport, and public power financings. John has represented issuers and borrowers before the Internal Revenue Service in connection with audits, private letter rulings, and requests pursuant to the voluntary closing agreement program (VCAP). 

John has worked with issuers to establish post-issuance compliance programs tailored to their specific financings, and also has significant experience with tax-exempt commercial paper programs for both governmental and exempt facilities.  John is a regular speaker at various conferences focused on public finance and tax, including conferences organized by the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the American Bar Association Tax Section, and the California Bond Buyer Conference.  John is serving as Chair of the National Association of Bond Lawyers' "The Institute" conference in 2024.