Space Beach Law Lab
Speaking Engagement | March.25.2025 - March.27.2025
Queen MaryOrrick is proud to be a "Pilot" sponsor of the 2025 Space Beach Law Lab, March 25 - 27, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. SBLL offers insight into the ever evolving legal and regulatory landscape of space exploration, including international governance, private sector commercialization, and intellectual property rights in space technology. The conference also addresses ethical considerations such as sustainability, debris management, and environmental stewardship, while highlighting opportunities for cross-industry collaboration among aerospace, tech, and legal sectors to advance space missions.
Orrick's Laura Lariu will be leading the panel "Orbiting Success: CFOs and Investors on Sustainable Space Funding", featuring Adam Spice, CFO, RocketLab; Siddarth Hariharan, CFO, Vast; and Mark Siedel, CFO, True Anomaly.
Practice:
- Technology Companies Group
- Space and Defense Tech Law
Laura Lariu Partner
Santa Monica
She is primarily focused on space & defense transactions, venture capital financings and providing external general counsel guidance. Before joining Orrick, Laura led companies through transformational growth as general counsel and practiced ECVC law.
Laura was an early employee of rocket manufacturer Relativity Space and guided the company's legal strategy through the company's (and world's) first launch of a predominantly 3D-printed full-scale rocket. Throughout that period, Laura helped negotiate $1.3 billion in private funding. She helped secure millions of square feet of physical infrastructure, including a former Boeing C-17 factory and facilities at NASA's Stennis Space Center. She also negotiated customer contracts of over $1 billion with major global satellite operators, and laid the foundation for complying within a national security framework and developing an innovative IP portfolio.
Prior to Relativity Space, Laura was general counsel at Virgin Hyperloop. Before that, Laura was as a corporate attorney with Gunderson Dettmer in New York and worked on innovative deals (venture financings, M&A, IPO) throughout the city's tech boom of 2011-2016. She also applied her fluency in 5 languages to work on a wide array of international deals.
Laura is a founding member of the L Suite, formerly TechGC, a platform of over 2,000 in-house legal leaders at leading tech companies and venture capital funds. She previously served on its Executive Board and Steering Committee and co-led the Los Angeles chapter. She is also on the Steering Committee of Space Beach Law Lab, the leading platform for legal leaders and policymakers to shape the future of the space industry.
Alexandra Wood Partner, Technology Companies Group, Life Sciences & HealthTech
Austin; San Francisco
Practice:
- Technology & Innovation Sector
- Technology Companies Group
- Life Sciences & HealthTech
Alexandra Wood Partner
Austin; San Francisco
Alex’s work encompasses a broad range of industries and corporate matters, including formations, compensation, venture capital financings, debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, strategic transactions, IPOs and corporate governance.
Alex’s prior company-side representations include Carta, Docker, GitLab, 6Sense, Branch Metrics, LTK (fka rewardStyle), Quizlet, Niantic, Gen Digital (fka Symantec) and Streamlit, among others.
Alex also has represented leading venture capital firms and strategic investors, including GGV Capital, Menlo Ventures, GV, NEA, Insight Venture Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners, Merck Research Venture Labs, Trinity Ventures and Comcast Ventures.
Alex started her practice in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices of Fenwick & West LLP and another major national law firm. Prior to her career in law, Alex managed international development programs in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.