Brandon Sanders Of Counsel, Technology Companies Group
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco
Brandon is a corporate attorney in Orrick’s San Francisco office. He concentrates his practice on representing technology and other high growth companies and their investors. Brandon advises companies on day-to-day corporate and transactional matters throughout their growth lifecycle, from formation to early stage and growth stage financings to exit events, and everything in between. In addition, Brandon regularly represents leading private equity, venture capital and other institutional investors on growth, venture and structured equity investments, minority and majority recapitalizations, buyouts and other complex investment transactions. He also has significant experience representing clients in the cleantech and renewable energy industries on securities transactions and joint ventures.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Erin's practice focuses on water, wastewater, public power, solid waste, airport and port financings, primarily in California and the territory of Guam. In addition, Erin has experience working on complex public-private-partnership (P3) transactions.
Erin also serves on the Board of Directors of the Asian Americans in Public Finance.
San Francisco
Rebecca’s practice includes all aspects of class action and other civil litigation in areas including privacy and data security breach litigation and arbitration and insurance litigation. She has represented multiple companies in class action litigation involving claims by consumers, employees, and institutions relating to security, privacy, and other issues. She also advises clients facing insurance coverage disputes and arbitration of contractual disputes. She has defended litigation arising out of data breaches involving claims by consumers and financial institutions and class actions bringing wiretapping and other claims against companies relating to the use of online technologies and tools like cookies, pixels, and session replay software.
Rebecca has assisted multiple clients across several industries in seeking, obtaining, and disputing the denial of insurance coverage. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she has advised clients on insurance, contracting, and other unique issues that have arisen. Recently, Rebecca served as the senior associate in a fraud trial that was tried in-person during the height of the Omicron variant and settled after a week of trial. Rebecca’s pro bono practice focuses on immigration and civil rights issues.
Prior to joining Orrick, Rebecca was a litigation associate in the San Francisco office of another international law firm. She previously served as a pro bono fellow at Greater Boston Legal Services representing low-income clients in disputes over state cash and food assistance benefits.
San Francisco
Reese's practice spans both criminal and civil litigation in the white collar, securities, and complex business litigation fields. He represents and advises a diverse range of clients, including individual executives navigating criminal liability and employment disputes, as well as publicly traded corporations responding to an array of civil claims.
As a law student, Reese worked as an intern at the San Francisco City Attorney's Office in the Litigation Division as well as working as an extern with Legal Services of Northern California.
San Francisco
Serena's practice focuses on representing individuals and companies in a broad range of industries in government and internal investigations, securities litigation, regulatory enforcement actions, and other complex business litigation. Her experiences include conducting internal investigations and representing companies and individuals in investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Drug Enforcement Agency. Serena represents companies in the technology and financial sectors in a wide range of civil disputes including claims of breach of contract and patent infringement.
San Francisco
Rebecca is an Associate in the San Francisco office of Orrick’s Technology Companies Group. She advises her clients on key legal issues and obstacles, including negotiating investment terms and structuring deals, maintaining good corporate governance practices, navigating employee and contractor equity, and preparing for exit.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Michelle advises companies throughout their lifecycle, including at formation, on matters concerning corporate and securities law, fundraises, scaling and corporate governance. In addition to representing companies and entrepreneurs, Michelle advises investors on strategies to maximize the impact of their investments and represents funds in connection with their investments in private companies.
Before practicing law and joining Orrick, Michelle managed grant programs at an impact investment fund manager focused on microfinance and sustainable agriculture in emerging markets.
San Francisco
Jake counsels companies throughout their lifecycles on matters including incorporation, debt and equity financings, corporate governance, securities law compliance, secondary sales, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. He also advises venture capital and strategic corporate investors on a range of direct and secondary investments.
Mr. Wyrick also has experience advising companies on complex technology transactions involving the creation and commercialization of technology, including licensing, joint development, manufacturing and distribution. While seconded to a venture-backed networking company, he negotiated key licensing agreements and oversaw commercial contract matters.
Prior to joining Orrick, Jake worked as an attorney at prominent Silicon Valley law firms, and he was also a legal intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he focused on technology-related appellate litigation and policy. He began advising early-stage companies during law school while working as a summer associate at a law firm in Tokyo and as a student attorney at Duke University School of Law’s Startup Ventures Clinic.
San Francisco
Aaron advises sponsors, lenders and financial institutions in debt and equity financings across the renewable energy, conventional energy and infrastructure sectors.
As a law student, Aaron worked as a legal intern at the International Finance Corporation. Prior to law school, Aaron worked as a credit ratings analyst for public finance transactions in the water and wastewater sectors. Aaron is also a licensed civil engineer in the State of California.
San Francisco
Miranda has experience defending clients in all stages of litigation on a broad range of employment law issues. She has significant experience regarding independent contractor misclassification matters, including both single plaintiff and class action litigation involving wage and hour claims, and representative actions under California's Private Attorneys General Act. Miranda also has particular expertise in defending clients in whistleblower retaliation cases.
In addition to her litigation practice, Miranda also counsels clients on California's complex employment laws.
San Francisco
Clients count on J.P.’s versatility to guide them through all types of employment litigation ranging from thorny single-plaintiff disputes to large-scale class and representative actions. J.P.’s strategic mindset draws from his experience across all phases of litigation in state and federal courts, arbitration, and before government agencies. His experience spans a breadth of issues including those related to wage-and-hour laws, the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), trade secret theft, restrictive covenants, contract disputes, pay equity, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability accommodation, leaves of absence, and wrongful termination.
Additionally, J.P. regularly counsels employers on best practices to meet their business goals in a way that minimizes legal risk. He partners with clients to address employment issues such as wage-and-hour compliance, high-risk personnel decisions, mass workforce changes, the development of compliant policies, the drafting of complex employment agreements, and recent changes in employment laws.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Simon has experience representing clients in a broad range of commercial litigation disputes. He has assisted in defense of contract, trade secret, business torts, and WARN Act employment claims in mediation, arbitration, and in state and federal courts.
Prior to joining Orrick, Simon worked as a litigation associate in Kirkland & Ellis' San Francisco office. He received his J.D. from Emory University School of Law. While in law school, Simon served as a managing editor of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal.