New York
Erica draws on deep experience in legal ethics and litigation. She served as Staff Attorney with the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct, where she investigated and prosecuted judges for ethical violations. Prior to joining Orrick, she was Deputy General Counsel at Foley & Lardner, advising the firm on complex legal ethics, regulatory, compliance, procurement, and other professional responsibility and risk management issues. She began her private practice career as a litigator at Morvillo, Abramowitz and Gibson, Dunn.
Erica clerked for the Hon. Peter K. Leisure of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing & Research at Fordham University School of Law.
Paris
Solène assists French and international clients on all aspects of French employment law both in contentious and non-contentious matters.
Her area of expertise covers collective aspects of employment law (professional elections, relationships with the employee representatives, collective agreements, working time, reorganisations, mass redundancies, post-acquisition integrations, internal investigations, background checks and monitoring) and individual aspects (drafting employment documentation, dismissals, negotiation and settlement agreements, bonus schemes and restrictive covenants).
Solène has been a French-qualified lawyer (Avocat à la Cour) since February 2018. Prior to joining Orrick, she was an associate for 7 years within a global UK law firm's employment team.
In addition, she holds a Master’s Degree in Employment law from the University of Paris II Panthéon- Assas. Solène is also an alumna of the Oxford University (Diploma of Legal Studies - 2014).
New York
Her practice focuses on project development, acquisitions, and financing, including debt and tax equity financing, in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors.
Los Angeles
Marc partners with government bond issuers, nonprofit organizations, and universities, and has experience assisting leading affordable housing professionals, public power agencies, private universities, museums, and charter schools with their financing goals. Marc provides reliable, sought-after advice to issuer and underwriter clients in transactions involving both long- and short-term, fixed and variable rate obligations, commercial paper, credit and liquidity enhancement, and revenue bonds.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Marc was an economics consultant at Deloitte & Touche LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP. Marc obtained his JD/MBA at the University of Southern California.
Chicago
Russell represents private credit funds, asset managers, banks, sponsors, borrowers and other investors in financings for a wide range of energy and infrastructure asset classes, including solar, wind, battery storage, conventional power and other infrastructure projects. With extensive private credit experience, Russell is skilled at structuring and documenting complex financing structures such as senior secured project-level financings, back-leveraged financings, term loan A, term loan B and asset-backed loans.
New York
Kim represents companies and individuals in a variety of complex commercial matters, including breach of contract, securities and stockholder litigation, borrower-lender disputes, trade secret misappropriation, and bankruptcy proceedings. She also has significant experience in white collar criminal and regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, as well as internal investigations. Kim regularly appears in courts across the country; before arbitration panels; and before regulators including the SEC, DOJ, and CFTC.
Kim maintains an active pro bono practice, including matters ranging from prisoners' rights to immigration issues and constitutional law.
Kim graduated from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She earned her B.A., with honors and distinction, and M.A. from Stanford University, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Before joining Orrick, Kim practiced in the litigation departments of Milbank LLP and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Houston
Guy Topaz is a versatile litigator whose practice spans complex commercial and financial services disputes in federal and state courts, domestic arbitration, white-collar investigations, and regulatory enforcement actions.
Guy counsels and represents individual and corporate clients including technology companies, global asset managers, Fortune 500 corporations, and private-equity sponsors in high-stakes matters in courts throughout the country. Guy draws upon his federal and state clerkship experiences, and his diverse international background in China, Europe, and the Middle East, to provide practical solutions that safeguard client objectives and reputation. Prior to joining Orrick, Guy practiced in the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of an international law firm.
Seattle
Maya represents pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovators in complex, high-stakes intellectual property disputes.
Prior to joining Orrick, Maya clerked for the Honorable Chief Judge David Estudillo of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Maya earned her law degree with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as Online Editor for the University of Chicago Law Review.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Britney is an associate in Orrick’s Technology Companies Group. She advises technology companies on entity formation, venture capital financings, and day-to-day corporate governance, supporting clients from inception to exit.
Britney also works with venture capital firms in connection with their investments in early-stage and high-growth technology companies. Her experience includes supporting companies through financing rounds, drafting and reviewing key corporate documents, and ensuring compliance with corporate laws. She also supports clients with board and stockholder matters, equity compensation, and strategic transactions.
Düsseldorf
Sein Schwerpunkt liegt auf Vertragsstreitigkeiten im Energie-, Infrasturkur- und Technologiesektor, wo seine Mandanten von seiner Erfahrung in großvolumigen Schiedsverfahren profitieren. Darüber hinaus ist Kevin Riehle in Rechtsstreitigkeiten aus der Zulieferbranche, der Eisen- und Stahlindustrie sowie der Investitionsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit versiert.
Im Bereich der Schiedsverfahren betreut er Verfahren nach allen relevanten Schiedsordnungen, inklusive der DIS, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL und AAA.
Vor seinem Eintritt bei Orrick vertiefte Kevin Riehle seine Spezialkenntnisse im Bereich der Prozessführung und Konfliktlösung bei Tätigkeiten für drei weitere führende internationale Anwaltskanzleien im In- und Ausland.
Paris
Julia counsels on compliance issues in relation to European and French tech and data regulations, including:
and other new and emerging legislation impacting online platforms, technology developers, and eCommerce businesses. She advises companies of all sizes on a wide range of compliance matters, ranging the drafting of internal policies, to assisting with regulatory investigations, product counseling and regulatory engagement.
In the context of strategic transactions covering significant and complex technological issues, she is involved in the drafting and negotiation of agreements relating to data transfer, IT, software, content and brand licensing.
Julia is deeply familiar with the commercial considerations’ clients face, having practiced in-house at Twitter, Financial Times and CBS for more than a decade prior to joining Orrick. Julia also teaches a course on AI contracts for the Master's program in AI Law at a leading French university and acts as a mentor for students.
Düsseldorf
Robert war schon immer fasziniert von neuen Technologien und der Digitalisierung. Seiner Faszination folgend spezialisierte er sich auf Medienrecht, Immaterialgüterrecht und Datenschutzrecht. Bevor er bei Orrick tätig wurde, sammelte er auch Erfahrungen bei der Gründung eines Unternehmens, das eine Software as a Platform Dienstleistung anbot und indem er für einen deutschen Venture-Capital-Investor tätig war. Seine Rechtsberatung zu Technologietransaktionen - insbesondere zu SaaS- und IP-Vereinbarungen, E-Commerce bezogenen Themen, der damit verbundenen Unterstützung bei Fusionen und Übernahmen oder dem Datenschutz - spiegelt nicht nur seine rechtliche Expertise wider, sondern auch seine Erfahrung und Faszination für neue Technologien. Als IT- und IP-Anwalt mit einer sehr wirtschaftlichen Mentalität entwirft und verhandelt Robert alle Arten von IT- und IP-Vereinbarungen für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen ebenso für große multinationale Konzerne. Er berät bei Fragen der Compliance mit dem Datenschutz - insbesondere bei Entwürfen von Datenschutzerklärungen und nationalen sowie internationalen Auftragsverarbeitungsvereinbarungen - oder stellt seine Expertise bei der Beurteilung von IP/IT- und Datenschutzfragen bei M&A-Transaktionen zur Verfügung. Er berät auch bei GDPR-Compliance-Projekten und bei der allgemeinen Einhaltung des Datenschutzes.
Er kam 2017 zu Orrick, nachdem er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter auf dem Gebiet des Datenschutzes geforscht hat.