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Practice:

  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung
  • Renewable Energy
  • Oil & Gas
  • Infrastructure

Joshua Ballin-Goldsmith Associate

London

Joshua often works on cross-border disputes and has represented clients from the UK, US, Uruguay, Italy, Switzerland, Singapore and various other offshore jurisdictions. He has acted in arbitrations under the main arbitration rules including the ICC and LCIA, and on disputes governed by the laws of numerous countries including England & Wales, Italy and the British Virgin Islands.

He is also a published author and frequently writes about developing areas of law. Most recently, he wrote about the changes to the UK’s sanctions regime and DIAC’s arbitration rules.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy

Wenlong Zhuge Managing Associate

New York

Wenlong represents sponsors, developers, lenders, equity investors and other financial institutions in financings, acquisitions and development of various energy and infrastructure assets, including renewable energy, power storage, digital infrastructure, among others.

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Practice:

  • Geistiges Eigentum

Hayley Hurst Trademark Specialist

London

Hayley manages clients' trade mark portfolios and has significant experience in trade mark searching, providing pre-filing guidance, and navigating trade marks successfully through to registration.

She also regularly advises clients in trade mark dispute and infringement matters.

Before moving into private practice, Hayley spent over a decade working in the in-house trade mark teams of a multinational pharmaceutical company and a multinational consumer goods company.

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Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate
  • Geistiges Eigentum
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung

Eric Shumsky Partner

Washington, D.C.; San Francisco

Chambers USA reports that Eric is “hailed as ‘highly intelligent, an effective communicator and a great writer’ by contacts, and his high-profile work in the tech patent sector is of particular interest to those who recognize him as one who ‘prepares meticulously, anticipates every question, and is a gifted orator.’” Legal 500 touts his “exceptional courtroom demeanor and presentation skills” as one of “the finest appellate litigators in the nation.” And Reuters, in a report reviewing some 17,000 practitioners, identified Eric as part of an “elite cadre” of 75 lawyers who are “the most influential members of one of the most powerful specialties in America: the business of practicing before the Supreme Court.”

Eric has served as appellate counsel to a who’s who of leading companies, including AT&T, DISH Network, Facebook, Genentech, Gilead, KPMG, LG Electronics, LinkedIn, Lyft, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Netflix, Norfolk Southern, Synopsys, Twitter, and Union Carbide. Across an array of industries, Eric has briefed and argued issues as diverse as patent and copyright, labor and employment, preemption, punitive damages, environmental law, national security, and foreign sovereign immunity. He has been a primary author of more than 100 briefs in the Supreme Court alone.

Eric has particular proficiency in matters of technology and intellectual property. He regularly litigates novel issues concerning the regulation of the internet, including CDA Section 230, computer fraud, takedown notices, and internet domain names. He has been counsel in dozens of patent appeals in the Federal Circuit—litigating patents ranging from semiconductor construction, computer architecture, and genetic sequencing to tobacco curing, keyboard trays, and electrical junction boxes. A former law clerk on the Ninth Circuit and the Central District of California, Eric has extensive experience in the California state and federal appellate courts where tech issues commonly arise. 

In addition to traditional appellate work, Eric has years of experience developing legal strategy in high-profile and complex cases in trial courts. Eric has performed this role in high-stakes multi-district litigation, criminal trials, and civil litigation involving critical dispositive motions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Eric was a partner in the appellate group at Sidley Austin. 

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group

Emily Donohue Managing Associate

Seattle

Emily advises high growth technology companies in general formation, venture capital and private equity financings, and corporate governance. In addition to advising companies, Emily represents investor firms in connection with their investments in private companies.

Emily received her JD from the University of Washington, where she was a member of the Technology Law and Public Policy clinical program and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts.

Prior to joining Orrick, Emily worked as a musician. She has released several recording projects, including an LP with Refresh Records.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure
  • Private Credit

Evangeline Schumacher Senior Associate

Mailand

She advises both international and domestic lenders (including banks and private debt funds) and borrowers (including corporates and sponsors), on infrastructure financings, leveraged and investment grade acquisition financings (including private and public bid financings) and corporate investment grade lending.

Specialising in cross-border English law finance transactions, and with a particular focus on the Italian market, Evangeline is recognised for her ability to manage all aspects of a transaction with accuracy and efficiency, offering clients seamless and coordinated legal support across jurisdictions.

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Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Fintech
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation

Sherry-Maria Safchuk Partner

Santa Monica

Sherry’s clients include banks, mortgage originators and servicers, mortgage brokers, commercial lenders, bank holding companies, private equity firms, investment advisors, investment managers, finance companies, fintechs, consumer reporting agencies, data brokers, debt collection companies and related service providers.

She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), and was a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2016 class of Future Leaders and the California Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2014 class of Future Leaders.

Prior to joining Orrick, Sherry was a partner at Buckley LLP. She has been an associate in private practice. She also clerked for the Honorable Jeanette J. Clark in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Infrastructure
  • Public Finance Tax
  • Non Profit Unternehmen Finanzierung
  • Wohnbaufinanzierung
  • Real Estate
  • Capital Markets

Joshua Bonney Senior Associate

Washington, D.C.

Joshua has closed over 150 financing transactions aggregating tens of billions for state and local government capital programs, nonprofit capital projects, energy production and transmission facilities, airport systems, healthcare systems, surface transportation systems, water systems and affordable multifamily rental housing projects, among others. He regularly serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel, and borrower’s counsel and has experience with all the major financing products available in the market. His expertise includes tax-exempt and taxable financings, commercial paper, credit and liquidity-enhanced transactions, fixed, variable, and multi-modal debt, senior and subordinate structures, as well as tenders, exchanges, conversions and reofferings. Joshua also works closely with our Band 1-ranked (Chambers USA) infrastructure group and is experienced in alternative delivery and public-private partnership (P3) transactions across various segments of the infrastructure sector.

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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Geistiges Eigentum
  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Annette Hurst Partner

San Francisco

Annette is an experienced trial lawyer who has tried copyright, trade secret, trademark, patent and business tort claims. As a risk analyst and problem solver with deep proficiency in the software industry, Annette is a go-to counselor and speaker regarding the legal issues surrounding access and use of datasets in the development of machine learning algorithms. She was named “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer for her work as co-lead counsel on the Mattel/MGA case. Chambers USA ranks her in Band 1 for Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets, with clients reporting that she is “smart, creative and terrific at oral argument” and “a very well-known authority in copyright law, a great advocate and a great trial lawyer.” Chambers reports: “Clients agree that Annette Hurst is ‘a very powerful and experienced trial lawyer for copyright cases, and a good team leader who is reliable before judges,” and “Peers consider Annette Hurst a ‘remarkably intuitive’ lawyer who ‘brings unique perspectives to soft IP cases.” Since 2018, The Legal 500 has recognized Annette as a “Leading Lawyer” in copyright law, and she was named “Female Litigator of the Year West” by Benchmark Litigation in 2013. Annette has been repeatedly named one of the top 75 IP litigators in California by The Daily Journal.

Annette’s community and professional activities include past service on the Northern District of California Patent Local Rules Committee, President of the Lafayette Elementary School PTA, and past membership on the Board of Directors of the Volunteer Legal Services Program and Board of Directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco for which she was chair of the Finance and Investments Committee. She also is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco and the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Northern California Chapter, as well as a past president of the Barristers Club.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Structured Finance

Hugues Martin-Sisteron Partner

Paris

Hugues advises on the development and financing of international projects, with a particular focus on Africa and Europe. He has extensive experience advising sponsors (investors and industrialists), developers, and lenders (export credit agencies, commercial lenders, and development banks), particularly in the energy, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors.

Hugues regularly works on transactions in Africa. Through his involvement in numerous large-scale projects, he has acquired in-depth expertise in various national and regional legal systems and regimes, particularly those of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), and the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA).

Hugues is also the author of numerous legal articles published in renowned law journals such as Lexis Nexis (France and Morocco), the Revue de droit bancaire et financier, the Revue Banque, and the Revue Contrats et Marchés Publics. In addition, he co-edits the annual editions of Lamy Droit du Financement and L’Essentiel Droits Africains des Affaires (Lextenso). He has also published the first book devoted to Islamic project financing.

Austin Humble Associate

San Francisco

Austin serves as a trusted advisor to founders, emerging growth companies, venture capital funds, and other strategic investors in a wide array of corporate matters in connection with planning and executing a variety of transactions. Primarily, including formation, early and late-stage venture funding rounds, corporate governance, fund formation, and investment matters. Austin specializes in helping companies in the blockchain/crypto space but also advises an array of companies across software, fintech, artificial intelligence, and digital media.

In addition to representing U.S. companies on domestic transactions, Austin represents companies across the United States, EMEA, and Asia.

Prior to joining Orrick, Austin spent time at Gunderson Dettmer, Inceptiv, and SSM. During law school, Austin worked at The Northern District of Texas, aiding the Chief Justice in various matters.

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Steuern
  • Unternehmensbesteuerung
  • International Trade and Investment
  • Tax Advocacy
  • Internationales Steuerrecht

Dr. Stefan Schultes-Schnitzlein Partner

Düsseldorf

In seinem Fokus stehen Unternehmenstransaktionen sowie deren Finanzierung, finanzielle Restrukturierungen sowie Betriebsprüfungen und Steuerstreitverfahren.

Die steuerliche Betreuung von Wachstumsunternehmen in allen Phasen ist in den letzten Jahren ein immer größerer Teil seiner Arbeit geworden. U.S.-Flips, Management-Incentivierung, Finanzierungsrunden und Exits sind nur einige der Bereiche, in denen Stefan Schultes-Schnitzlein im Wachstumsbereich tätig war.

Stefan Schultes-Schnitzlein leitet die Orrick-Büros in Deutschland gemeinsam mit Christoph Brenner.