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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Steuern

Peter Elias Partner

Santa Monica

He regularly assists in the tax planning and structuring of emerging companies and other transactions relevant to their formation and sale, including founder loan share purchases and secondary sales, “Up-C” IPO transactions, obtaining and optimizing “qualified small business stock” tax benefits, conversions of limited liability companies, structuring and documenting “profits interests” and other favorable equity to founders, as well as M&A, joint ventures, equity and debt financings, buyouts, divestitures, and restructurings. He has significant experience in real estate and related transactions, including structuring and tax planning for private equity investment funds, joint ventures, and like kind exchanges and other tax-advantaged exit strategies, including:

  • Tax planning and structuring for private equity and venture capital investment vehicles, including the use of parallel or alternative investment vehicles, co-investment vehicles, or other similar structures to accommodate participation by tax-exempt entities and/or non-U.S. parties.
  • Implementing tax efficient structures and exit strategies for U.S. real estate projects, joint ventures or similar vehicles, including recapitalizations, in-kind distributions, leveraged recaps, as well as like-kind exchange structures pursuant to tax code section 1031.
  • Providing advice and tax structuring for investment funds and related entities in connection with secondary market purchases of debt securities and debt instruments, including distressed debt, as well as related debt modifications, workouts, foreclosures and/or related resolutions.

Pete has spoken and written extensively in areas involving private equity, venture capital, hedge and real estate funds, real estate joint ventures and distressed debt, and private equity transactions.

Pete also is an adjunct professor at the U.C. Irvine School of Law, having created and taught classes focused on Tax Planning for Real Estate Transactions, for both JD and LLM (taxation) students.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Finance Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Steuern
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy

John Eliason Partner

Washington, D.C.

John advises major financial institutions (tax equity investors and infrastructure funds), lenders, developers, and sponsors, particularly those in the wind, solar, storage, biomass and energy tech space. He helps clients structure financings for their projects to take advantage of federal and state tax incentives, like the Federal production tax credit (PTC), energy investment tax credit (ITC) and accelerated depreciation (MACRS and “bonus”) using partnership flips, sale-leasebacks, public/private partnerships, and other structuring options. He has been particularly focused on providing clients with the latest guidance and opportunities relating to the Inflation Reduction Act, including with respect to Section 6418 tax credit transfers and Section 6417 direct pay opportunities.

Recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global in Band 2 for Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy, clients describe John as “extremely knowledgeable, flexible and can put technical jargon into plain terms.” Client sources also state “he knows the tax equity markets very well and is very commercial.”

Prior to law school, John founded an information management company based in Austin, Texas. He is also a veteran of the Texas Army National Guard.

Alexandria Elliott Senior Associate

Sacramento

Known for a strategic and pragmatic approach, Alexandria collaborates with clients to resolve high-risk matters at the earliest opportunity and with the least business disruption. When early resolution isn't possible, Alexandria is a skilled advocate who fights for her clients every step of the way. Alexandria is valued by her clients for her ability to balance defense strategies with business-minded solutions. Alexandria has successfully defended clients in trial and arbitration and helps clients with all types of employment matters, including whistleblower retaliation, discrimination, harassment, failure to accommodate, FMLA and CFRA claims, breach of employment contract, and equal pay claims. When she's not litigating, Alexandria enjoys partnering with clients to set them up for success through thoughtful advice and counsel.

Alexandria maintains an active pro bono case load and recently won a prisoner appeal before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Prior to joining Orrick, Alexandria worked as a litigation associate in Kirkland & Ellis's San Francisco office. Before that, Alexandria was a law clerk for the Honorable Bobby R. Baldock of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Gina M. Groh of the Northern District of West Virginia. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she graduated second in her class.

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung

Siegfried H. Elsing, Prof. Dr. LL.M. (Yale) Partner

Düsseldorf

Er war bislang als anwaltlicher Vertreter, beisitzender Schiedsrichter, Einzelschiedsrichter oder Vorsitzender des Schiedsgerichts in über 300 Schiedsverfahren tätig, darunter ad hoc-Verfahren sowie Schiedsverfahren nach den Regeln der führenden Schiedsinstitutionen.

Als Parteivertreter vertritt er private Investoren, internationale Unternehmen, souveräne Staaten und staatseigene Unternehmen in einer Reihe von bedeutenden, sowie häufig grenzüberschreitenden Streitigkeiten.

Neben der Anwalts- und Schiedsrichtertätigkeit tritt Prof. Dr. Elsing auch als Sachverständiger sowohl vor deutschen Gerichten als auch vor Gerichten in den USA und in Großbritannien sowie vor normsetzenden Institutionen auf.

Seine Erfahrung erstreckt sich auf Streitigkeiten u. a. aus den Bereichen M&A, Energie, Anlagenbau, Investitionsschutz, Finanzierungen, Joint Ventures sowie des gewerblichen Rechtschutzes.

Er ist sowohl in Deutschland als auch in New York als Attorney-at-law zugelassen.

Chambers Global 2024 bezeichnet Prof. Dr. Elsing als „Star Individual“, der „oft in komplexen internationalen Schiedsverfahren als Schiedsrichter benannt wird“, und zudem „ein führender Praktiker auf dem Gebiet der Investitionsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit“ mit „umfangreicher Erfahrung als Schiedsrichter in investitionsrechtlichen Fällen“ ist.

Prof. Dr. Elsing war von 2009 bis 2020 Beiratsmitglied der American Arbitration Association und von 2011 bis 2017 Mitglied des Panel of Conciliators des International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Er gehörte von 2012 bis 2022 dem Vorstand der Deutschen Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V. (DIS) an; seit 2022 ist er Mitglied in deren DIS-Rat. Zudem war er Vorsitzender des Mediation Committee der International Bar Association (IBA) (2007-2008).

Er ist Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift für Schiedsverfahren (SchiedsVZ). Er hält regelmäßig Vorträge und veröffentlicht zu Themen der internationalen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit und zur Rechtsvergleichung. Ferner ist er Honorarprofessor der Juristischen Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, wo er seit 25 Jahren internationale Wirtschaftsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit und internationales Zivilverfahrensrecht lehrt. Seit 2013 vertritt er das Großherzogtum Luxemburg als Honorarkonsul in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Prof. Dr. Elsing hat im Jahr 1989 die deutsche Anwaltskanzlei Hölters & Elsing mitbegründet und im Jahre 2008 die Fusion mit Orrick maßgeblich gesteuert.

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Practice:

  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

Hagit Muriel Elul Partner

New York

Hagit represents clients in international arbitrations across the world under the rules of all the major arbitral institutions including the ICDR/AAA, ICC and LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS and CPR and in cross-border disputes in courts across the United States. She has also served as an expert witness on New York law in proceedings in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Hagit is recognised as ‘a force to be reckoned with’ (Legal 500) who ‘thinks ten steps ahead’’ (Chambers) and has “astonishing legal skills”, including the ability “to analyze and sharpen arguments”. She was recognized as one of a select group of "Distinguished Leaders" by New York Law Journal (2021).

Hagit regularly teaches courses on arbitration and advocacy skills, sits as arbitrator and frequently writes and lectures on topics related to international business disputes. She is a member of the ICC Court of International Arbitration Commission, former chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Institute of Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), a current member of the CPR Council, ICC Commission, and a founding Board Member of the New York International Arbitration Center.

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Steuern

Carsten Engelings Counsel

Düsseldorf

Carsten berät Mandaten aus dem Industriesektor, Finanzinstitute und Private Equity-Fonds in allen möglichen deutschen Steuer- und Buchhaltungsfragen. Hauptaugenmerk liegt auf Unternehmens- und Immobilientransaktionen sowie Restrukturierungen. Er berät und vertritt Mandanten auch bei steuerlichen Außenprüfungen und in Steuerstreitigkeiten gegen die Finanzverwaltung sowie vor deutschen Finanz- und Zivilgerichten. Vor seinem Eintritt bei Orrick absolvierte Carsten sein Referendariat in nationalen und internationalen Anwaltskanzleien.

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • FCPA & Anti–Corruption
  • Behördliche Untersuchungen und Vollstreckungsmaßnahmen
  • Interne Revision
  • Globale Untersuchungen
  • International Trade and Investment
  • False Claims Act (betrügerische Zahlungsanforderungen)
  • Wertpapierrechtsstreitigkeiten, Sammelklagen und Aktionärsklagen
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Alison Epperson Senior Associate

New York

Alison represents individuals and corporations in a broad range of white collar criminal defense, anti-corruption, regulatory, and trade matters across the globe with a focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other anti-corruption laws and regulations. Alison's practice involves conducting internal investigations, representing clients in matters before the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Controls, and enhancing corporate compliance programs. Alison has extensive experience responding to subpoenas and information requests from government entities and has trial and litigation experience in multiple federal district courts. She has also helped clients navigate shareholder books and records inspection demands and shareholder derivative lawsuits. Alison has represented companies around the world in the oil and gas, medical technology, digital entertainment, pharmaceutical, education, blockchain, technology, and financial industries.

Alison's practice also includes online safety issues, including advising companies on compliance with online safety-related obligations and best practices in the US and conducting online safety compliance risk assessments, especially as it relates to user safety on internet dating platforms. Alison's experience includes representing clients in connection with criminal and civil investigations conducted by state attorneys general related to state online safety legislation. 

Alison remains committed to serving her community through pro bono representation and has experience in reproductive rights cases and policies, immigration and asylum matters, death penalty cases, policing and racial justice cases and policies, and a range of other constitutional issues. Alison has represented clients on civil and criminal matters in federal court, including a domestic violence survivor in a Hague Convention proceeding. Most recently, Alison helped achieve a meaningful settlement on behalf of the family of a man killed by police officers in Greenville, Mississippi after convincing the district court to deny qualified immunity for the officers involved.

Prior to joining Orrick, Alison graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. In addition, while pursuing her undergraduate degree from Centre College, Alison worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., specifically in the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee. In 2016, Alison co-founded the non-profit, CTE Hope, an organization dedicated to addressing the issues and research of traumatic brain injures and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Andrew Erskine Partner

Miami; Santa Monica; Los Angeles

Andrew works closely with founders and venture capitalists globally on the formation, operations, fundraising and successful exits of technology and other venture-backed companies. Leveraging a unique professional background and skill set as well as the premiere, full suite of services of our global law firm to devise strategic and creative solutions for his clients, Andrew shares their vision for change, and helps them build the vessel that delivers that vision to the world.

Prior to joining Orrick, Andrew served as a legislative adviser to Congress, a lobbyist for the University of Illinois, and a tax fellow for Deloitte advising companies on Sarbanes-Oxley tax compliance and building internal control systems.

Practice:

  • FDA & Healthcare Regulatory
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Shari Esfahani Senior Counsel

Washington, D.C.

A substantial part of Shari’s practice involves aiding life sciences (pharma, medical device, and biologic) and healthcare companies with internal investigations and working with clients on compliance with government investigations, subpoenas, and investigative demands, as well as the defense of whistleblower qui tam suits involving the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute. Shari has also managed litigations and helped lead trial teams involving diverse fields of science and technology including pharmaceuticals, various medical fields, and seals used in the semiconductor industry. She specializes in mastering complicated science and technologies and explaining them to judges and juries.

Shari regularly represents companies with FDA-regulated products and healthcare companies on strategic regulatory counseling matters. She also regularly conducts regulatory due diligence for private equity funds, acquirers, sellers, and underwriters in corporate transactions.

Shari also has substantial experience advising clients on complex advertising/promotion issues, including claim substantiation, disputes before the National Advertising Division of the BBB National Programs (NAD), and advertising lawsuits under Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act. She also regularly advises consumer product companies on Consumer Product Safety Commission related compliance.

Upon graduation from Harvard Law School, Shari clerked for the Honorable Frank A. Kaufman, United States District Court for the District of Maryland, who sat by designation on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Fourth Circuit, the Seventh Circuit, and the Eleventh Circuit.

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy

Lauren Estell Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Her practice focuses on project finance and development, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters with a particular focus on renewable energy. Lauren advises clients in debt and tax equity financings, development of solar and wind projects, and infrastructure projects.

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Practice:

  • Komplexe Streitfälle & Streitbeilegung

Rebecca Evans Senior Associate

London

Rebecca acts for clients on a broad range of litigation and regulatory matters. She has particular experience in acting for professional services firms in contentious regulatory investigations, enforcement proceedings and negligence claims.