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Practice:

  • eDiscovery & Information Governance
  • Employment Law and Litigation
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance

Nick Weaver Senior Employment Career Assoc

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

Nick is a leading eDiscovery attorney offering strategic counsel to clients, many Fortune 100, for nearly the past 15 years. With a comprehensive background in commercial and civil litigation, Nick excels in navigating the intricate landscape of eDiscovery.

As a Senior Discovery Attorney at Orrick, Nick is associated with Orrick’s Chambers USA and Legal 500 ranked Employment Litigation and eDiscovery and Information Governance practice groups. With a current focus on labor and employment litigation matters, Nick provides strategic counsel leveraging his extensive expertise to navigate complex eDiscovery challenges within the employment sector. His work includes litigating Equal Pay Act claims, wrongful termination disputes, allegations of discrimination, and others.

In his role within the eDiscovery and Information Governance practice group, recognized by Chambers USA and Legal 500 for its innovative approach, Nick’s expertise encompasses:

  • Information Governance and Data Privacy (including cross-border data transfers)
  • Emerging Technologies and Communication Methods
  • AI and Machine Learning Application
  • Data Preservation
  • Written Discovery and Negotiation

Nick’s proficiency spans all aspects of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), ensuring seamless data collection, preservation, review and production. He is a seasoned negotiator, adept at drafting and advising on ESI protocols, protective/confidentiality orders, and related stipulations.

Before joining Orrick, Nick developed his litigation expertise at Jones Day, focusing on complex commercial disputes and class action defense. His diverse legal background, combined with engineering and compliance experience, uniquely equips him to deliver innovative, technology-driven solutions.

Nick holds a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law, and a B.A. in Political Science from West Virginia University. He is an active member of the Pennsylvania and West Virginia Bars.

Practice:

  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • Geistiges Eigentum
  • (Schieds ) Gerichtsverfahren
  • Technology & Innovation

Ben Au Partner

Santa Monica

Ben’s diverse practice focuses on disputes where an understanding of technology and business is essential. Ben’s civil litigation practice includes trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and funder / founder disputes, through arbitration and trial and on appeal. Ben also has extensive experience in government enforcement actions before the SEC and FTC, as well as federal criminal matters ranging from fraud to FCPA to export controls. He has also conducted numerous internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients. Clients praise Ben’s understanding of the tech ecosystem, responsiveness, and practical, solutions-oriented business judgment.

Ben is committed to impacting his community and maintains an active pro bono practice, including representation and collaboration with the ACLU, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Equality California, on issues ranging from religious freedom, school integration, reproductive rights, privacy from government surveillance, and the right for same-sex couples to marry.

Ben currently serves on the Board of Directors of 826LA, a non-profit organization providing literacy and writing programs for children in underserved areas of Los Angeles. Since 2018, Ben has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He currently co-chairs its White-Collar Crime Committee and is the vice-chair of its Ninth Circuit Amicus Committee. Ben previously served on the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee, representing Northern and Southern California. The judges of the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit appointed Ben to serve as an appellate lawyer representative to the court.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Corporate Governance
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Capital Markets

Gregg Griner Partner

Boston; Chicago

Gregg represents companies in all stages of their life cycles, from start-ups to public companies, and in a variety of industries including, software, hardware, information services, financial services, financial technology, consumer goods, fashion, media, energy, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. He advises these companies in many aspects of their businesses including financings, corporate governance, employment matters, acquisitions, divestitures, licensing and distribution arrangements, and joint ventures and strategic partnerships.

Gregg also represents venture capital firms in their formation, fundraising efforts and maintenance, as well as in their investments in early and later stage operating companies and in complex leveraged transactions and restructurings. Gregg has worked with a number of leading technology and life science companies in connection with their initial and follow-on public offerings, M&A activities and leading investment banks in their underwriting of public equity and debt offerings.

Gregg has received praise from numerous peer publications, including Best Lawyers (Technology Law, Massachusetts) and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Go-To Lawyer for Healthcare/Life Sciences).

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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Behördliche Untersuchungen und Vollstreckungsmaßnahmen
  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung
  • Antitrust & Competition

Jonathan Direnfeld Partner

Washington, D.C.

Jon’s enforcement work involves helping clients navigate the patchwork of federal and state “consumer protection” rules and defending investigations and enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), State Attorneys General (AGs), and other state regulatory agencies. These matters cover a broad spectrum of B2C and B2B issues, including data privacy, cybersecurity, greenwashing, and so-called “unfair and deceptive” sales and marketing practices with a focus on representation of e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, gig economy, social media and fintech companies. In connection with these enforcement matters, Jon is able to leverage his substantial experience in crisis management by helping clients devise and implement coordinated regulatory, legislative, and media responses to these high stakes incidents.

Jon also helps companies identify and understand regulatory risks and opportunities associated with ESG marketing and goals by providing guidance on greenwashing and the FTC’s Green Guides to help clients avoid deceptive marketing for environmental responsibility and sustainability.

Jon also has substantial experience in the antitrust and competition space, including class action antitrust litigation, criminal cartel investigations and enforcement actions before the DOJ and international regulators, as well as mergers and acquisitions and conduct investigations before the DOJ and FTC. In addition, Jon also provides strategic public policy counseling to clients on consumer protection and data management matters before Congress and executive branch agencies, and he has an active complex commercial litigation practice in federal and state courts across the country.

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Emanuela Longo Special Counsel

Mailand

Emanuela is Special Counsel in Orrick’s Milan office and a member of the firm’s M&A and Private Equity Group.

Emanuela assists Italian and multinational companies in all phases of M&A transactions, from initial structuring to negotiation and closing. Her practice includes advising on day-to-day corporate governance, commercial contracts, and high-profile strategic projects. She is experienced in supporting clients with their ongoing operational needs as well as with special projects that require tailored legal solutions. In recent years, she has developed particular experience advising on M&A transactions in the industrial sector.

Her clients also include private equity and venture capital funds, merchant banks, family offices, and business owners in the context of private equity transactions aiming at the expansion of their business in Italy and abroad. She regularly assists funds investing across a range of industries, including food, textiles, and manufacturing.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Employment Law and Litigation
  • Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation
  • Pay Equity
  • Whistleblower & Corporate Investigations
  • Arbeitslohn und Arbeitsstunden

Jill Rosenberg Partner

New York

She handles complex individual cases, as well as class actions and systemic government investigations. She represents a broad range of companies, including employers in the securities industry, banks and financial institutions, accounting firms, law firms, and employers in the technology and media industries. Jill also has particular proficiency in the representation of nonprofit entities, including colleges, universities, hospitals, foundations and cultural institutions.

She designs and conducts training programs for clients and frequently speaks on employment law issues for employer and bar association groups such as National Employment Law Institute, Practising Law Institute, National Association of College and University Attorneys and the New York State Bar Association.

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Practice:

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

Caroline Stapleton Partner

Washington, D.C.

Client-centered experiences are at the heart of Caroline’s practice. She has provided a wide variety of institutions, from fintech startups to multinational banks, with tailored, practical guidance that considers each company’s unique characteristics and strategic goals. Caroline draws on her prior experiences as an attorney at a federal prudential regulator and as the head of compliance at a consumer finance company to give clients a comprehensive picture of the legal risks and opportunities each new matter presents.

Her work on behalf of financial services providers has included:

  • Providing guidance regarding novel or complex regulatory questions, often in the context of developing new financial products and services
  • Performing compliance risk assessments of marketing, underwriting, pricing, origination, servicing and loss mitigation activities
  • Advising banks and supervised lenders with examinations by federal and state regulators, including responding to exam findings, CAMELS ratings, Matters Requiring Attention (MRA/MRIA) and enforcement referrals
  • Strategically responding to and defending enforcement actions by state and federal regulators, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve Board and Department of Justice (DOJ), and, if necessary, negotiating favorable settlements
  • Developing strategies for bank partnership, state licensing and bank charter opportunities for consumer financial services providers
  • Conducting internal investigations of suspected misconduct or violations of an institution’s policies and/or regulatory requirements

In these and other representations, Caroline brings strong substantive knowledge of the key federal and state statutes and regulations governing the financial services industry. Her specific areas of focus include:

  • Fair lending and anti-discrimination laws, including the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)
  • Prohibitions on unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices (UDAP and UDAAP)
  • Technical regulatory compliance under federal and state laws governing loan marketing, disclosures, settlement practices, servicing and collection practices, consumer reporting and electronic payments
  • Federal preemption, including under the National Bank Act
  • Compliance management best practices and regulatory expectations, including third-party vendor and merchant oversight
  • Treatment and disclosure of confidential supervisory information (CSI)
  • State lease-to-own laws and regulations

Prior to joining Orrick, Caroline was senior counsel at Buckley LLP. She also has served as an attorney-advisor in the litigation division of the OCC, where she represented the agency in civil litigation, bank receivership preparation, employment disputes and other administrative contexts. Caroline also gained valuable in-house experience as the head of compliance and assistant general counsel of a Richmond-based consumer finance company.

John Ren Counsel

New York

John's experience spans across various industries, including pharmaceuticals and life sciences, technology, gaming, and agriculture. John has litigated high-profile antitrust cases involving a broad range of business practices and legal theories, including monopolization, restraint of trade, intellectual property-related conduct, bundled rebates, predatory pricing, and other exclusionary practices. He also has experience in transactional investigations and challenges, and and played a key role in successfully defending against government challenge to a high-profile merger involving vertical and horizontal theories.

Before joining Orrick, John served at the Federal Trade Commission for several years. During his time at the FTC, John handled all aspects of anticompetitive conduct investigations and enforcement actions, including CIDs, investigational hearings, strategy and legal theory development, pleadings and dispositive motions. 

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Livia Maria Pedroni Partner

Mailand

With a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of the technology and innovation market, Livia regularly advises early and late-stage companies on both single and multi-tranche investment rounds, secondaries, bridge financings, LBOs, buyouts and other types of exits, mergers, and corporate reorganisations. She has worked with international innovative companies from their inception and has also advised many of the key venture capital and private equity investors in the Italian and international markets.

Alongside her focus on technologies, she has acquired specific experience in the healthcare sector by working alongside one of the world-leading groups in the laboratory analysis sector, from its entry onto the national scene to the consolidation of its leadership position in Italy through M&A transactions.

Yvette Williams Project Attorney

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

Yvette works with litigation attorneys and third party vendors to manage the review and production of documents relevant to investigations and litigation. Yvette's work includes using early case assessment technology to analyze, categorize and cull data. She also manages teams of skilled professionals performing document review, redaction, analysis, production and drafting privilege logs. Yvette assists the litigation team to prepare for trial, including drafting deposition summaries, factual memoranda and exhibit charts. She also works with practice office attorneys on transactional tasks, including contract review and due diligence.

Prior to joining Orrick, Yvette clerked with Judge David R. Janes in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of West Virginia and was an associate at Bailey & Wyant in Wheeling, West Virginia.

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Practice:

  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung
  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Fintech

Justin Seccombe Senior Associate

Chicago

His experience includes representing clients in high-stakes litigation throughout the country in matters concerning federal and state consumer protection statutes, as well as complex commercial disputes. He further advises and represents clients in regulatory, supervisory, and enforcement matters before federal and state agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and states attorneys general. Justin assists clients through all aspects of litigation, including briefing dispositive and discovery motions, managing large-scale discovery reviews and productions, preparing expert reports, arguing motions in both state and federal court, opposing class certification, and conducting settlement negotiations. With respect to enforcement matters, Justin represents clients through supervisory actions and assists them with the PARR (Potential Action and Request for Response) and NORA (Notice and Opportunity to Respond and Advise) process, crafting responses and working with regulators to reach favorable outcomes.

Prior to joining Orrick, Justin was an associate at Buckley LLP. Before practicing law, Justin worked with sports agents for some of the most successful players in the National Football League, including league MVPs, Super Bowl winners, and numerous rookies of the year.

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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Patents
  • Geistiges Eigentum
  • Patent & Intellectual Property Rights Appeals

Travis Jensen Partner

Silicon Valley

Able to quickly understand complex technology in the litigation context, Travis is particularly well-suited to resolve patent disputes involving semiconductor processes and circuits such as NAND flash memory, microcontrollers, wireless payment technologies, and related areas. After earning advanced degrees in electrical engineering, and before embarking on his legal career, Travis worked at Intel Corp. and co-founded a fabless semiconductor design company.

Travis has used his distinctive skillset to litigate technically complex patent cases to verdict, and obtain favorable settlements for several of the world’s leading technology companies such as Microchip, Synopsys, AT&T, and SanDisk. Travis has successfully first chaired patent and non-patent jury cases to verdict in federal and state court, including while on secondment to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.  Travis has handled numerous appeals before the Federal Circuit, and, as a registered patent attorney, served as lead and back-up counsel in post-grant proceedings (inter partes review and ex parte reexamination) at the PTO.