Santa Monica
Susanna assists clients by providing federal and state compliance advice, including completing surveys on various mortgage, consumer, and commercial-lending topics, such as requirements related to fair lending, debt collection, preemption, bank partnership models, interest on escrow, borrower correspondence and navigating communications with Limited English Proficiency borrowers. She analyzes lending and servicing practices in light of federal laws such as the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and their accompanying regulations, as well as assists with preemption determinations.Prior to joining Orrick, Susanna was a partner at Buckley LLP. Before Buckley, she was an associate at Winston & Strawn.
Paris
His practice focuses on restructuring and insolvency proceedings, in relation to which he advises all stakeholders (alternative investors, lenders, creditors, debtors, buyers etc.) whether in an amicable or judicial context.
François also advises companies, entrepreneurs and investment funds on their corporate and transactional matters.
He has recently acted for investors and creditors in the restructuring of listed and mid/upper mid companies. He has also advised financially distressed industrial actors, as well as investors seeking to acquire stressed and distressed assets and business activities.
François is a member of the Paris Bar, holds a Master 2 - DJCE from the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and is a graduate of HEC Paris. He is a regular lecturer in the Master's degree in Restructuring and Treatment of Distressed Companies (ALED accred.) at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3.
Prior to joining Orrick, François was a lawyer at major international law firms.
Paris
Grégoire advises French and international companies on litigation matters.
Prior to joining Orrick, Grégoire was an associate at Fieldfisher in Paris. Grégoire also worked as an intern in various law firms as Kalliopé and White & Case in Paris as well as in the Paris Court of Appeal and at the legal department of CACEIS Bank in Luxembourg.
New York
He frequently serves as bond counsel to municipal issuers participating in the financing programs of the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation and the grant and loan programs of the Rural Development division of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Douglas' particular areas of New York municipal law interest include open spaces programs and financings, town and county improvement district formation, consolidation and improvement, innovative lease-purchase financings, bond resolution referendum law, village local improvement programs and the drafting of local laws and propositions, as well as state legislation on behalf of clients.
Douglas is a frequent speaker at municipal professional organizations on local finance law, federal securities law and federal tax matters affecting municipal debt issuance.
Mailand
Diletta provides advice and assistance to Italian and international clients in relation to real estate transactions. She primarily deals with acquisitions and disposals of single assets and real estate portfolios for commercial, hotel and residential use.
Diletta graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude) from Bocconi University in Milan, after studying for a semester at ESADE University in Barcelona.
She was admitted to the bar in Milan with honors in 2024.
London
Jake regularly acts for banks and other financial institutions and professional services firms in connection with cross-border litigation, arbitration, investigations and regulatory enforcement matters.
Silicon Valley
Sara advises on a variety of corporate matters, including both domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions on the buy- and sell-side, corporate governance issues, venture capital financings and other strategic transactions. Sara works with a wide range of companies, including public companies, tech startups, private equity portfolio companies and unicorn companies.
Prior to law school, Sara worked in operations for a tech startup in North Carolina.
San Francisco
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.
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.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Saurabh leverages interdisciplinary training in biology, materials science, and electronics to deliver laser-focused, trial-ready advocacy—simplifying complex technologies into persuasive arguments that both win in court and drive clients’ commercial goals. Clients seek him out for his deep experience, analytical rigor, and razor-sharp instincts in consequential patent disputes.
Saurabh has applied these skills across a spectrum of market-leading disputes. He was instrumental in securing a favorable settlement for a blockbuster lung cancer therapy on the eve of trial after years of litigation and in defending a top-selling osteoporosis drug against validity and infringement challenges. He helped obtain inventorship recognition in landmark proceedings involving the first-in-class COVID-19 mRNA-LNP vaccine that saved millions of lives and generated billions in revenue. He protected a small biotech innovator’s next-generation DNA sequencing platform with innovative design-arounds against aggressive patent assertions and reinforced a major electronics manufacturer’s defense in a multi-jurisdiction jury trial over internet-based digital content sales, with substantial damages at stake.
Saurabh was a founding staff editor of Georgetown Technology Journal. Saurabh’s PhD thesis—which proposed a CRISPR-based therapy for common infections—earned the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Award as one of the five most innovative solutions to a global health challenge.
Saurabh has represented clients before U.S. district courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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.
Santa Monica
Ernie provides expertise and enthusiasm to help our clients resolve their intellectual property disputes. With a background in molecular biology, cognitive science, and intellectual property, Ernie is adept at helping resolve complex patent disputes across a wide range of technologies from wireless communications to life sciences matters. He also brings valuable litigation and legal writing expertise, having served as a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to the Honorable Judge Tiffany P. Cunningham. Ernie also has experience working hands-on with technical experts and in arbitration disputes over patented inventions.
Prior to joining Orrick, Ernie worked at a large law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area representing a client in a CRISPR gene editing patent dispute before the district court and Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as well as indigent clients seeking asylum in the United States.
Ernie graduated cum laude from Santa Clara University School of Law, earning the law school's Mabie Outstanding Graduate Award and a High Tech Law Certificate with a specialization in Intellectual Property Law. He also holds an M. Ed. from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and B.A.s from the University of California, Berkeley in Molecular & Cell Biology and Cognitive Science.