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449620

Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Rachael Jensen Managing Associate

Austin

Rachael has represented clients in multiple cases before the United States Supreme Court, as well as federal and state appellate courts across the country. She has argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Army Court of Criminal Appeals.

Prior to joining Orrick, Rachael clerked for the Honorable Denny Chin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She graduated with Honors from The University of Texas School of Law, where she was champion in moot court, Chief Articles Editor for The Review of Litigation, a research assistant, a teaching assistant, and a member of the Supreme Court Clinic. She received her Bachelor’s degree from The University of Arkansas, where she developed her nationally recognized research on political rhetoric.

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Offshore Wind
  • Nuclear
  • Infrastructure
  • Wind Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Energie
  • UK

Albert Yu Partner

London

Albert represents a wide range of clients, working with project sponsors, lenders, export credit agencies and funds on market-leading energy and infrastructure projects in Europe and Asia.

Prior to joining Orrick, Albert was a Managing Associate at a Magic Circle firm. Albert has also worked in-house for a large global mining company.

Practice:

  • Steuern
  • Real Estate
  • Finance

Jessie Gaston Partner

Paris

With almost 20 years’ experience, Jessie has advised clients in the private equity, insurance, banking, technology, energy (including nuclear), hospitality, and luxury goods industries, including Antin Infrastructure, AXA REIM and AIG on, amongst others, the consequences of Brexit, transfer pricing audit issues, intellectual property rights, stock option incentives packages, management compensation schemes and structuring multinational joint ventures. Jessie offers clients strategic tax planning and is adept at liaising with the relevant authorities to minimize the risk of litigation and, when necessary, assists clients in litigation proceedings both before the French courts.

Jessie is “an excellent lawyer” “highly skilled” and “an exceptional team leader who thinks out of the box” (Client Commentary, Legal 500 EMEA) as well as being a Highly Regarded Practitioner (ITR World Tax, 2023); the Thomson Reuters Foundation also nominated her as Lawyer of the Year for pro bono. She has acted as an expert witness before the New York State Supreme Court, is frequently interviewed by Bloomberg, LCI, and quoted by the BBC concerning tax regimes for tech companies in Europe.

Jessie previously served as the deputy office leader of Orrick's Paris office. Before joining Orrick Jessie worked for one of the leading auditing and consulting services firms in the world and the Paris office of two multinational law firms.

431722

Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Fintech

Ameerah Banks Cooper Associate

Santa Monica

Prior to joining Orrick, Ameerah was an associate at Buckley LLP. Prior to Buckley, she was an Assistant Vice President for a national consumer financial services company, where she maintained compliance with all applicable Consumer Finance Protection Board (CFPB) and other federal and state regulatory guidelines.

440690

Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory

Avery Turzanski Associate

Washington, D.C.

Avery graduated from The George Washington University Law School with a concentration in Business & Finance Law. During law school, he interned for the Oregon Department of Justice (Financial Fraud and Consumer Protection Section), the Securities & Exchange Commission (Division of Enforcement), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Office of Enforcement). Avery also interned for Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Before law school, Avery worked in Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance at a major bank. Avery has a B.Sc. in Economics and a B.A. in History from Santa Clara University.

Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Alexandra Bursak Senior Associate

New York

Alex's litigation work spans a range of subject areas, from copyright and patent law to questions of statutory interpretation and constitutional law. She has been the lead drafter of briefs and motions in federal and state courts of appeals and contributed to teams working in the U.S. Supreme Court and state and federal courts of all levels.

Alex maintains an active pro bono practice. Her scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining Orrick, she served as a law clerk to Judge Anthony Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Cornelia Pillard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She received her law degree from New York University School of Law.

Practice:

  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate

Maria Sanchez Associate

Los Angeles

Maria drafts and reviews purchase and sale agreements, loan agreements and closing documents for investment funds, institutional investors and developers on real estate transactions, including joint ventures, acquisitions, financings, developments and dispositions. She also advises on lease agreements.

While in law school, Maria was a member of the International Human Rights Law Clinic for multiple semesters, where she worked to pass local resolutions in both the cities of Berkeley and San Francisco based on international human rights principles. She also participated in the East Bay Community Law Center’s Community Economic Justice Clinic.

Maria is also passionate about diversity and recruitment efforts. She served as the recruitment chair for La Alianza’s Law Student Association as well as an Admissions Ambassador at Berkeley Law. Now she is an active member of Orrick’s Latinx Attorneys inclusion network.

Maria was previously a summer associate at Orrick in 2020.

463718

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity

Vernon Lin Managing Associate

New York

Vernon represents public and private companies in connection with domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and corporate governance matters. 

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group

David Benhamou Senior Associate

Santa Monica

David represents high growth technology companies and venture capital firms in many areas, including corporate and securities law, formation, ongoing corporate matters, and venture capital financings.

David began his legal career as a corporate associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. During his time at NYU School of Law, David worked with a number of startups.

436187

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Restructuring

Elodie Tancray Managing Associate

Paris

Elodie’s practice focuses on restructuring and insolvency advising all the stakeholders (alternative investors, lenders, creditors, debtors, buyers etc.) whether in an amicable or judicial context. whether in an amicable or judicial context.

Elodie has worked as a trainee in leading French law firms.

Prior to joining Orrick, she was an associate at a UK law firm.

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Dr. Johannes Rüberg, EMBA Partner

München

Dies umfasst Venture- und Wachstumsfinanzierungen in allen Phasen sowie die allgemeine gesellschaftsrechtliche Beratung. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt seiner Tätigkeit ist die Beratung von strategischen und Finanzinvestoren bei Fusionen und Übernahmen.

Im JUVE Handbuch (2024/2025) wird Johannes Rüberg als oft empfohlen für Gesellschaftsrecht sowie für Venture Capital geführt, einschließlich des Zitats "sehr gute Fachkenntnisse, angenehme Zusammenarbeit" eines Wettbewerbers. Legal 500 Deutschland führt ihn als "empfohlener Anwalt" für Venture Capital (2024) und veröffentlichte in der Ausgabe 2022 die Testimonials „sehr unterstützend und angenehm in der Zusammenarbeit“, „äußerst gewissenhaft“ und „schnelle Reaktionszeit“. Vom Handelsblatt ist er seit 2021 in der Kategorie „Anwälte der Zukunft“ für Gesellschaftsrecht ausgezeichnet.

Neben seiner anwaltlichen Tätigkeit hat Johannes Rüberg das Kellogg-WHU-Executive-MBA-Programm abgeschlossen.

462654

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group

Mike Heath Partner

Los Angeles; Santa Monica

Mike has spent over 15 years helping founders and boards navigate the full company lifecycle—from formation and fundraising to scaling, acquisitions, and IPOs. He also serves as outside general counsel, advising on the legal and strategic challenges that come with growth.

Mike is all about efficiency, assembling legal teams that scale with his clients—from an early-stage founder sketching an idea on a napkin to executives leading multibillion-dollar companies through major transactions. His approach is rooted in trust and candid advice, particularly when navigating the complex and uncertain situations that inevitably arise in high-growth companies.

Leveraging Orrick’s sector-focused approach and legal innovation tools, Mike advises startups and high-growth companies on financing rounds, IPOs, and M&A deals. He also works closely with top venture capital and growth equity funds, guiding them through investments.

Prior to joining Orrick, Mike was a partner and co-founder of Gunderson Dettmer’s Los Angeles office.

Recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500, Mike’s clients praise him as “incredibly knowledgeable, responsive, and always helpful,” with one calling him their “favorite external counsel.” Super Lawyers also named him a Rising Star in 2022 and 2023.

Mike earned both his law degree and bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, just a short walk from each other down Bancroft Avenue. A lifelong Cal Bears fan, he still holds out hope for a Rose Bowl appearance—ACC realignment and all.