Hari Raman Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)
San Francisco; Santa Monica
San Francisco; Santa Monica
San Francisco; Santa Monica
Hari represents private equity firms and public, private, emerging and late-stage technology companies in a variety of domestic and international transactions. His experience spans the range of M&A activity, including cross-border deals, SPAC transactions, majority/minority investments, restructurings and general corporate matters. He works closely with serial acquirers implementing their buy-side M&A strategies, and with venture-backed companies, founders and investors in M&A exits and other liquidity transactions.
Hari has extensive experience leading companies in core technology markets through all aspects of the M&A process. He understands the unique issues, deal terms and trends at play in technology M&A, allowing him to optimize for efficiency, transaction execution and results for his clients.
Hari has also previously worked in Asia and the Middle East on complex, cross-border M&A, and leverages that experience in leading M&A transactions across the globe, including China, India, Israel and the United Kingdom.
Prior to joining Orrick, Hari was an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He is qualified to practice in both California and New York.
Paris
Lisandre advises French and international companies on all aspects of French employment and labor law.
Prior to joining Orrick, Lisandre worked as an associate in the employment teams of provincial and international law firms based in Montreal and Paris. Lisandre earned her LL.B. and J.D. from University of Montreal and is admitted to both Paris and Quebec Bars.
Santa Monica
Gary has spent his career successfully representing clients in intellectual property litigation matters, including patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret disputes. He also represents clients in contested U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proceedings, including serving as lead counsel on numerous inter partes reviews (IPRs) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Gary litigates cases involving a broad array of technologies, such as new pharmaceuticals, drug delivery systems, medical devices, biologic therapies and biosimilars, microprocessor architecture, computers, telecommunications, semiconductors, software, and data encryption.
When it comes to his counseling practice, Gary develops proactive intellectual property strategies, delivers insightful advice on transactional matters, and provides IP portfolio management, prosecution, and licensing advice.
For nearly 20 years, Gary has been recognized by a variety of publications, including by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 75 IP Litigators and a “Top IP Lawyer” in California, by the Los Angeles Business Journal as a “Leader of Influence: Top Litigator and Trial Attorney,” and by IAM Patent 1000 as a “Leading Patent Litigator.”
Houston
Spencer is a trusted advisor to a diverse range of clients, including renewable energy developers, private equity investors, multi-national energy companies, and startups, providing expert guidance on complex transactions and helping clients achieve their most important business goals. Known for his strategic insight and practical approach, Spencer delivers tailored solutions that drive value and mitigate risks, ensuring successful outcomes for clients across the full lifecycle of their ventures.
As global energy demand continues to grow amidst an increased focus on decarbonization of the energy industry, Spencer takes pride in working closely with pioneers involved in the energy transition, helping to steer development and investment in solutions such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, ammonia, offshore wind, renewable power generation, energy storage and other exciting technologies that are critical to achieving decarbonization on a global scale.
Milan
He advises both domestic and international companies, investors and stakeholders—including lenders and sponsors—on a wide array of finance transactions. His expertise encompasses project finance (infrastructure and energy), leveraged and acquisition finance (including private and public bid financings for targets in Italy and abroad), private debt transactions, real estate finance, ECA-backed financings, restructuring transactions, and investment-grade loans.
Most of the transactions he handles are cross-border, providing clients with comprehensive legal support across jurisdictions. He has significant experience advising on transactions involving emerging markets.
Munich
Christoph regularly acts for private equity sponsors, corporate and strategic buyers, owners and management teams.
He is frequently recommended by Legal500, JUVE and Best Lawyers Germany for M&A and Private Equity transactions and JUVE describes him as “very experienced, fast, solution-oriented”.
Christoph leads the German Orrick offices together with Stefan Schultes-Schnitzlein.
Munich
He regularly advises founder teams on the establishment of a two-tier U.S./German holding structures, be it in connection with their admission to a U.S. accelerator or be it for better access to early-stage financing opportunities in the richer U.S. funding ecosystem.
During his legal training, Onur had been with the M&A practice of a Big Four accounting firm and the legal department of a major German technology company in Germany and Canada. In 2022, Onur worked from our San Francisco and Menlo Park offices for three months to take a deep-dive into the Silicon Valley's start-up ecosystem.
Munich
He advises start-ups and scale-ups on their foundation, financing rounds and growth phases as well as on internationalization projects. He also advises VCs and corporate VCs on their investments.
Before starting his legal practice, he also worked as a trainee lawyer for a U.S. law firm in its San Francisco office.
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.
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.
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.