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.
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.
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.
Orange County; Los Angeles
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.
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.
Peking
Her practice focuses on advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets and SEC compliance matters.
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.
Paris
She advises French and international groups on all French employment and labor law matters. In particular, on the following matters: company restructurings, merger and acquisition transactions, transfer of activity, collective and individual relationships, hiring and termination of top managers, litigation.
Prior to joining Orrick, Chek-Lhy was an associate for three years in the Employment, Pensions & Benefits department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and for four years in the employment team of Linklaters.
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.
Washington, D.C.
In his government enforcement practice, Ron routinely defends a broad range of clients in the financial services industry before federal and state regulators, including matters initiated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and state regulators. Ron has experience responding to Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs), managing large-scale discovery, and advising clients on regulatory risks.
In his litigation practice, Ron represents businesses in class actions and complex commercial disputes in federal and state courts. Ron effectively drafts briefs and discovery requests, prepares witnesses for depositions, manages discovery, and conducts complex legal research on a range of issues.
Ron maintains an active pro bono practice, with a particular focus on criminal justice reform. He has helped draft legislation to severely limit the use of solitary confinement in District of Columbia correctional facilities, drafted an amicus curiae brief on behalf of an individual charged with homicide seeking to exclude expert testimony, and reviewed innocence claims for an incarcerated individual.
A fervent advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at Orrick and in the legal profession, Ron serves on Orrick's DEI committee in D.C.
Prior to joining Orrick, Ron was an associate at Buckley LLP and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. He also clerked for the Honorable Peter G. Sheridan of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Paris
He focuses on project finance transactions and advises sponsors, debt providers and governments on the structuring and financing of various energy and infrastructure transactions across Europe, Africa and Latin America.
His experience includes a wide range of debt financing transactions (senior, junior, mezzanine, loans, bonds, multilateral development financings, export financings, etc.). He has also been involved in infrastructure M&A/private equity and restructuring transactions in connection with strategic assets.
Ahmed has gained substantial experience working on high-profile energy and infrastructure deals, including public-private, transport, telecom, energy transition and IPP projects.
Prior to joining Orrick, Ahmed practised several years within the Energy & Infrastructure teams of major international law firms in Paris.
Peking
Yiping (Sophia) Shen, an associate in Orrick’s Beijing office, is a member of the Intellectual Property (IP) group.
Sophia’s practice focuses on IP-related legal advice and litigation. She advises regional and international clients on their IP issues related to both cross-border disputes and transactions.
Sophia focuses on supporting defense of Chinese companies in patent and trademark litigation before various U.S. District Courts, as well as Section 337 U.S. International Trade Commission investigations.
She has experience in patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret-related matters, responsible for providing legal counseling, conducting due diligence and legal research, and drafting business contracts.