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432862

Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Fintech

Brian Wegrzyn Counsel

New York

Prior to joining Orrick, Brian was counsel at Buckley LLP, where he served as a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. He also previously worked as a litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, clerked for the Honorable Richard J. Sullivan in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and was an associate with Winston & Strawn LLP. Brian also has served as an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University Law School.

181321

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Technology Companies Group

King Milling Partner

New York

King is a partner in the New York office and a member of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border M&A, joint venture, private equity and venture capital transactions, including negotiated mergers, auction bid processes, distressed asset sales, leveraged buyouts and the acquisition and divestiture of divisions and subsidiaries.

King is experienced in all aspects of Delaware and New York corporate, partnership and limited liability company law. He regularly counsels boards of directors on corporate governance, compliance, fiduciary duty and executive compensation matters.

King represents U.S. and non-U.S. clients in a wide range of industries, including life sciences, technology, energy, consumer products, industrials and manufacturing and financial services.

Catherine Malone Senior Associate

Orange County

Catherine represents individuals and companies across a broad range of industries in criminal, civil, and regulatory matters in federal and state court, and in investigations brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She also maintains a robust pro bono practice.

Prior to joining Orrick, Catherine served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joel M. Carson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the Honorable James A. Parker of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Before law school, she worked in business advisory services at a public accounting firm in New York City.

366495

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Banking & Finance
  • Private Credit

Matthew Shellenhamer Senior Associate

New York

Matthew is a senior associate in Orrick's New York office and a member of the Banking and Finance Group. He advises major financial institutions, public and privately owned companies, sponsors and private credit funds in effectively assessing legal risks in complex secured and unsecured commercial finance transactions. His experience extends to a wide variety of finance transactions, including broadly syndicated loans, asset-based financings, private equity acquisition financings, debt restructurings, dividend recapitalizations and project financings. Matthew also supports other practice groups, including the Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity group, the Technology Companies Group and the Energy and Infrastructure group, on various financing matters for clients.

435845

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Oil & Gas
  • Renewable Energy
  • Hydrogen
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Offshore Wind

Dr. Werner Brickwedde Partner

Düsseldorf

While Werner’s corporate and M&A experience spans a broad range of industries, he has built a strong focus on and deep knowledge of the Energy & Infrastructure sector. His experience extends to acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, complex shareholder arrangements and project agreements of a variety of alternative energy and sustainability projects, including offshore wind, storage and mobility.

Werner also has extensive experience in project development, including advising on Operations & Maintenance and energy-related projects, particularly upstream and midstream. His in-depth understanding of how these projects fit together and how risk is allocated enables him to provide commercial, forward-looking advice on complex, cross-border transactions.

Werner is recommended in Germany for energy transactions (JUVE 2022/2023, Legal 500 2023), M&A (JUVE 2022/2023, Legal 500 2024, Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers 2023/24. WirtschaftsWoche 2023) and corporate law (WirtschaftsWoche 2021).

459025

Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Harmann Singh Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Harmann is a member of Orrick’s Supreme Court and Appellate group. He counsels clients in high-stakes constitutional, administrative, intellectual property, and commercial disputes across industries. His experience includes representing some of the world’s largest companies, nonprofits, and universities in trade secret cases, patent and copyright disputes, challenges to federal and state laws and regulations, and complex business litigation. Harmann also serves as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches the seminar Contemporary Civil Rights Issues at the Supreme Court.

Harmann maintains an active public interest practice and has represented clients in federal immigration appeals challenging their unlawful removal from the United States, advocated for criminal defendants in state appellate courts, and contributed to a gender equity investigation of the NCAA. Harmann is experienced in election law, as he has represented Pennsylvania in defending its certification of the 2020 presidential election results at the U.S. Supreme Court, defended the constitutionality of New York’s candidate filing deadline in federal court, and submitted briefs in support of election administration grants in state and federal court. Governor Andrew Beshear commissioned Harmann as a Kentucky Colonel—the Commonwealth’s highest civilian honor—for successfully defending the Governor’s COVID-19 public health measures at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Harmann served as a law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court; Judge Raymond J. Lohier, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Earlier in his career, he was an associate at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP. Before law school, he was a Truman-Albright Fellow at the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Harmann graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and Columbia University, where he was named a Truman Scholar.

Margaret A. Malloy Senior Litigation Attorney

New York

With over two decades of experience in employment law and complex litigation, she has represented clients in high-stakes disputes across federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration. From leading precedent-setting class actions to advocating for clients before the EEOC and New York Courts, Maggie's career is defined by her ability to navigate intricate legal challenges with precision. Whether advising on employment disputes, engaging in litigation, or negotiating resolutions, she delivers straightforward counsel that protects clients and advances their business objectives.

464060

Practice:

  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Intellectual Property
  • Technology & Innovation

Abigail Dagher Associate

Orange County

Abigail’s background in marketing and business development gives her a practical understanding of how brands grow and operate, helping her offer trademark advice that supports her clients’ business goals. She assists with counseling clients on managing domestic and international trademark and copyright portfolios, guiding them through all stages from trademark selection, searching, prosecution, and registration to brand enforcement and protection. Her work also includes handling takedown procedures and resolving domain name disputes. In addition to her prosecution practice, Abigail also has experience with opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Abigail previously worked with The Coca-Cola Company, AT&T, the Georgia State-wide Business Court, and Emory University’s Office of Ethics and Compliance, where she developed her skills and grew her passion for global trademark and copyright law while assisting with legal matters in international marketing, emerging technology, and privacy.

448993

Practice:

  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Mass Torts & Product Liability

Hillary Dang Senior Associate

Washington, D.C.

Clients have relied on Hillary’s representation in multidistrict litigation, statewide coordinated proceedings, class actions, and government enforcement actions filed in federal and state courts throughout the country.  Additionally, Hillary has represented pharmaceutical companies and government contractors in False Claims Act litigation and government investigations.  Hillary’s litigation experience spans from initial case and dispositive motions assessment, to both bench and jury trials, and all fact and expert discovery, motions practice, and other trial preparation in between, including considerable work with company witnesses, medical and public health experts, and U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory experts.  Hillary has also advised clients on product liability exposure and litigation risk related to FDA regulations and guidance.

Hillary’s active pro bono practice includes advising clients on civil rights and immigration matters.  She has secured asylum for an individual from Cameroon and successfully argued for a renewed bond hearing for an unlawfully detained immigrant before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Prior to joining Orrick, Hillary practiced at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C.  From 2020-2021, she clerked for the Honorable M. Casey Rodgers in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.  While in law school, Hillary completed a judicial externship with the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

417130

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Employment Advice & Counseling
  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation
  • Wage and Hour

Anna Suh Partner

Sacramento

For years, Anna has worked with companies at all stages of their life cycles to find legal solutions that advance the goals of their business. With a particular passion for helping early to mid-stage technology and life sciences companies, Anna deeply knows the challenges these companies face and is able to provide practical solutions on a wide variety of day-to-day employment law issues, including leave and other accommodations, worker classifications, onboarding, performance management and terminations. Disruptors and innovators in the tech space face unique challenges and require advisors who are willing to jump in and immerse themselves in the company as a whole, and Anna happily works to understand her clients’ company culture and long-term goals while helping them effectively meet short-term legal challenges.

Anna also guides companies through the employment challenges that can accompany financings, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings. Her litigation background, defending companies in employment litigation matters involving co-founder disputes, misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information, employee mobility, discrimination/harassment, wage and hour, equity and token grants, and other compensation related issues, informs her approach to counseling and allows her to identify and address issues before a problem becomes contentious. In the event of threatened or actual litigation, Anna is prepared to aggressively litigate disputes to achieve the best outcomes for her clients.

388440

Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Amari L. Hammonds Senior Associate

Los Angeles

Before joining Orrick, Amari was the 2019-2021 Earl Warren Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the California Department of Justice. There, she co-authored the Department’s briefs defending the Affordable Care Act in California v. Texas, which won the National Association of Attorneys General’s Supreme Court Best Brief Awards in both 2020 and 2021. Amari also received two Attorney General’s team awards for her work on that case and in another case challenging the Trump administration’s border wall. Amari authored or co-authored several other briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court, and argued before the Ninth Circuit.

Amari served as a law clerk to the Honorable Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court.

Prior to law school, Amari worked for the Mayor of New York City, Obama for America, the Democratic National Convention Committee, and two public relations firms in New York City.

740

Practice:

  • Intellectual Property
  • IP Counseling & Due Diligence
  • Patents
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

K. Patrick Herman Of Counsel

New York

Patrick's practice focuses on complex patent and other intellectual property matters. He has represented petitioners and patent owners in dozens of inter partes review proceedings relating to technologies such as automotive safety systems, catalytic materials, engine oil additives, and hard drive and other computer components.  Patrick also prosecutes patents before the USPTO in the chemical and material science fields.

In addition, Patrick has more than a decade of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in more traditional patent litigation. He has been involved in all phases of litigation, from developing initial strategy through appeal. Patrick has appeared in intellectual property cases before a variety of different federal district courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the International Trade Commission. Applying his engineering background, he has represented clients in patent infringement litigations involving medical devices, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, automotive technologies, consumer electronics, and children’s toys.

Patrick's practice also extends to intellectual property counseling, including rendering opinions relating to patentability, infringement, validity, and freedom-to-operate issues, and the performance of patent diligence.