Houston; Austin
Michael regularly engages in his clients' most complex and sophisticated matters involving eight, nine and ten figure exposure. Whether it be securing billion-dollar summary judgments or obtaining full dismissals for energy companies in mass tort cases, Michael defines success as winning, and doing so in a manner that enhances and protects the reputation and prospects of his clients.
Michael understands how courts think and what they want. He managed a federal court civil docket for two years and drafted judicial opinions for the highest levels of the Texas judicial system. He regularly assists his clients navigate their most complicated legal obstacles, and does so with bottom-line clarity.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining Orrick, Kara served as a Judge Advocate in the United States Air Force. In that capacity, she served as both a Prosecutor and Defense Counsel, developing extensive litigation experience through 27 federal trials. Kara excels under pressure, having previously advised General Officers on Air Force operations, internal investigations, and administrative law. She draws from her military service, applying her discipline, organization, and leadership skills to enhance her litigation practice and advocacy for her clients.
Washington, D.C.
Romina represents investors, issuers and other market participants in connection with asset-backed securities transactions. She has significant experience working with a variety of esoteric assets, including proved developed producing (PDP) oil and gas wellbores, musical composition and sound recording copyrights, legal fees receivables, and cell site assets. Romina also has experience with consumer receivables, such as credit card and charge card receivables, as well as auto loans and leases.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Bart’s experience includes advising project developers, financial institutions, private equity firms, state and local governments, and public and private companies on matters involving environmental and natural resources laws, including:
Bart’s work includes transactions, project development and permitting, litigation, agency proceedings, and enforcement actions. He represents clients in matters involving federal and state agencies, including the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and state and local environmental and resource protection agencies.
Bart has also handled numerous matters involving federal, state, and local economic incentives, grants, and loan guarantees. In particular, he has advised energy and commercial development clients on applying for and obtaining incentives for the redevelopment of brownfield sites.
Bart maintains an active pro bono practice that has included matters involving conservation, human trafficking, and family law. Prior to joining Orrick, Bart practiced at an international firm and a national firm focused on environmental law. He also served as senior counsel on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, focusing on environmental, energy, and climate issues.
Bart is described by Chambers USA as “highly fluent in the intricacies of EPA policymaking and possesses a wealth of knowledge about the U.S. market.”
Los Angeles; New York
Los Angeles; New York
Gaelyn has represented a wide range of financial institutions including fund sponsors, issuers, underwriters, placement agents, investment advisers and investors in connection with a wide range of financing transactions including collateralized loan, bond and debt obligations; synthetic collateralized debt obligations; trade receivables; various derivative instruments and structured finance products; and private equity funds and hedge funds.
Los Angeles
Carrie is a managing associate in Orrick’s Los Angeles office and a member of the Banking and Finance group. She advises private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, asset managers and other private and public companies on an array of financing transactions including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, private credit financings and liability management exercises and other special situations.Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Katie focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments, and general corporate matters for clients primarily in the oil and gas, renewables, and conventional power industries.
London
Katie provides U.K. and international clients with commercially focused, practical advice on a broad range of transactional and advisory employment matters, including the employment aspects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, workforce restructuring, employee relations and consultation, recruitment and severance, workforce classification and restrictive covenants.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Sundeep is also a leading advisor in the rapidly evolving advertising ecosystem and possesses an in-depth technical and legal understanding of adtech across all channels (e.g., connected TV, linear TV, over-the-top media, desktop, mobile web, mobile app). He participates in adtech working groups and is a key contributor to the development of industry-wide privacy compliance solutions. He advises on compliance with self-regulatory regimes developed by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). The IAB named him Outstanding Contributor to Legal Affairs in 2024 for his significant impact on the adtech ecosystem through his work on such industry-wide initiatives.
Sundeep is accredited by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US). He is also a member of Law360's 2025 Cybersecurity & Privacy Editorial Advisory Board.
Paris
Martin’s practice focuses on debt financing transactions, including leveraged acquisition financings, for private credit funds, private equity sponsors, corporates and special situations funds.
Prior to joining Orrick, he was an associate at another leading US law firm
Houston; Singapore
Houston; Singapore
He has extensive experience representing project sponsors through development (including through the negotiation and drafting of power purchase agreements and other long-term offtake agreements, physical and financial swaps, engineering, procurement and construction contracts, operation and maintenance agreements, management services agreements and site services agreements), acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and financings. His representation has included transactions involving LNG facilities, methanol facilities, petrochemical refineries, carbon capture and sequestration facilities, natural gas processing and storage facilities, natural gas and CO2 pipelines, wind energy, solar energy, natural gas-fired peaking and combined-cycle power plants, thermal and battery energy storage, transportation, aviation and ports.
His prior experiences include a two year secondment to International Finance Corporation’s Office of General Counsel where he worked on multi-currency corporate financings, project financings and equity investments in infrastructure projects in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Turkey.
Giji is currently ranked as a Projects Leading Lawyer in Chambers Global and Chambers USA, and has been recognized for excellence by numerous leading industry and legal publications, including being named one of 34 "Groundbreaking lawyers" by Public Utilities Fortnightly.
Houston
Prior to joining Orrick, John served as a mergers & acquisitions associate in the Houston office of an international law firm.