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Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung

Elisabetta Santo Special Counsel

Mailand; Rom

Elisa is an experienced trial lawyer, having successfully litigated several trials as well as domestic and international arbitrations, representing Italian and international clients such as media & entertainment corporations, private equity funds, banks.

She also has broad experience in handling alternative dispute resolutions.

Her practice focuses mainly on corporate and commercial law disputes.

Elisa has extensive experience in corporate governance and international contract law and advises prominent Italian and multinational corporations active in many industries.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Energy

Bill Medaille Of Counsel

Austin

Bill’s experience in public finance includes representing issuers such as state agencies, local governments, public utilities, and public improvement districts on both general obligation and revenue financings, as well as representing the underwriters for various municipal bonds.

Prior to joining the firm, Bill served as in-house counsel at both the City of Austin and the Lower Colorado River Authority (Austin, Texas).

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Structured Finance
  • Commercial Mortgage‐Backed Securities

James Jenkins, III Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

He represents a variety of market participants, including sponsors, issuers and underwriters, in public and private offerings of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). 

He joins Orrick from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders in Washington, D.C. Prior to and during law school, James worked in the secondary market as a Performance Manager in the Credit Risk Management division at Freddie Mac, where he managed the performance of billions of dollars in MBS assets.  

Practice:

  • Geistiges Eigentum
  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Joseph Kolker Senior Associate

New York

In his trial-level practice, Joey develops legal strategy, writes persuasive and accessible briefs, and works as embedded appellate counsel at trial. Joey has drafted dozens of briefs in litigation involving patent infringement claims, false advertising claims, and other complex business disputes. At trial, in his hybrid role as embedded appellate counsel, Joey advises on legal strategy and preservation issues and drafts and argues trial motions, briefs, and jury instructions. 

In his appellate practice, Joey has presented argument before the Federal Circuit and Third Circuit, and drafted briefs at the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Federal Circuits, and at the U.S. Supreme Court, across a wide range of subject matters--ranging from patents, copyright, and contract interpretation to white collar and criminal procedure, immigration, and civil rights law.

Before joining Orrick, Joey served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Michael A. Chagares of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Janet Bond Arterton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Prior to clerking, he worked as a civil rights litigation fellow in the New York office of a national firm.

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Practice:

  • Data Centers
  • Renewable Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Offshore Wind
  • Energy Storage
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Energie

Patrick Ferguson Partner

San Francisco

Patrick has extensive experience leading energy development projects across a wide range of technologies, including solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, and natural gas peaking and combined-cycle plants. He has negotiated gigawatts of energy storage tolling and capacity agreements with both utilities and commercial and industrial offtakers. He also regularly advises major power companies on the sale of energy and capacity from existing generation assets, with deep familiarity in WSPP, EEI, and ISDA contracting frameworks.

A recognized authority in energy regulation, Patrick is at the forefront of many of the sector’s most innovative projects over the past two decades. He is currently advising on a diverse portfolio of commercial structures to power and develop data centers, including both in-front-of-the-meter and behind-the-meter solutions.

Patrick is ranked as a market leader by Chambers USA, Legal 500 USA, and Best Lawyers. He is also the editor of Megawatts to Megabytes: Orrick’s 2025 Guide to Developing, Financing & Powering Data Centers, the firm’s definitive publication on data center infrastructure and energy strategy.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure

Stanley Dirks Senior Counsel

San Francisco

He represents issuers and underwriters of tax-exempt bonds to finance a variety of public facilities and programs, including water and power systems, airports, schools, rental housing loan programs and homeownership loan programs.

Stan has served as a lecturer and panelist on a variety of programs concerning state and local government debt issuance. He also served for ten years as one of the original members of the Technical Advisory Committee of the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.

Stan also has a long history of involvement in the governance of nonprofit education, arts and other charitable organizations.

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Practice:

  • Antitrust & Competition
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

Anne Corbett Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Anne is experienced in all stages of litigation, including preparing pleadings, conducting party, third-party, and expert discovery, motion practice, and trial. Anne also works on merger review matters and counsels clients on antitrust issues.

From 2021 to 2022, Anne clerked for the Honorable Robert B. Kugler of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Anne graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a member of the National Moot Court team. In law school, she served as a Littleton Fellow teaching legal writing and as a Senior Editor on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Prior to law school, Anne worked as a consultant on antitrust and finance matters at an economic consulting firm.

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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.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

Donald Field Partner

Orange County; Los Angeles

He is also a member of Orrick's Leasing Practice Group, Assessment/Mello-Roos Practice Group, and Revenue Practice Group. Don has extensive experience, as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter's counsel, in the financing techniques used by school and community college districts, cities and counties in California. His practice focuses on local governmental infrastructure financing, including general obligation bond financing, municipal lease financing, and land-secured financing, as well as tax and revenue anticipation note (TRAN), pension obligation and other post-employment benefit (OPEB) obligation financings. Don serves as the lead lawyer for the California School Boards Association's annual tax and revenue anticipation note pool. 


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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Geistiges Eigentum
  • U.S. International Trade Commission
  • Patents
  • IP Counseling & Due Diligence
  • Trade Secrets Litigation

Bas de Blank Partner

Silicon Valley

In addition to his ITC practice, Bas also heads Orrick’s contentious prosecution practice. He has led more than 30 IPRs and first-chaired more than a dozen trials before the United States Patent Office, as well as represented clients in dozens of trials in district courts, and before PTAB.

As someone with degrees in both engineering and English literature, Bas is uniquely suited to present complicated topics to non-technical audiences. He has represented clients in fields as diverse as semiconductor processing and structure, GPS and geosynchronous satellites, image texture and graphics processing, Internet switches and communications, and various consumer products.

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Capital Markets
  • China

Lu (Echo) Wang Senior Associate

Peking

Her practice focuses on advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets and SEC compliance matters.

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Practice:

  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung
  • (Schieds ) Gerichtsverfahren

William Alderman Senior Counsel

San Francisco

Bill is additionally recognized for the results he has obtained in insurance coverage, employee benefits, and federal and state antitrust disputes. He commits a substantial part of his time to pro bono representation and to representation of the firm.

Representing clients in class and derivative actions, Bill's approach is to minimize his clients’ overall cost through careful strategic planning, dispositive motions and aggressive negotiation. Only three of the many securities class actions he has defended have resulted in any settlement payment by his client or its carrier. Of his nearly 100 motions to dismiss securities class, mass or derivative actions since 1996, more than 90 percent were granted in their entirety (most with prejudice), while others were granted in part or led to a successful motion for summary judgment.