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Paolo Danelzik Associate

Paris

Paolo's practice focuses on restructuring and insolvency advising all the stakeholders (debtors, shareholders, creditors and investors) whether in an amicable or judicial context.

Prior to joining Orrick, he gained professional experience in the restructuring departments of international law firms.

365165

Practice:

  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Finance
  • Bankruptcy Litigation

Jacob Ferm Senior Associate

London

Jake regularly acts for banks and other financial institutions and professional services firms in connection with cross-border litigation, arbitration, investigations and regulatory enforcement matters.

342042

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Sara Gates Corporate Innovation Attorney

Silicon Valley

Sara advises on a variety of corporate matters, including both domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions on the buy- and sell-side, corporate governance issues, venture capital financings and other strategic transactions. Sara works with a wide range of companies, including public companies, tech startups, private equity portfolio companies and unicorn companies. 

Prior to law school, Sara worked in operations for a tech startup in North Carolina.

Thomas James Senior Associate

Chicago

Thomas's patent litigation practice is an outgrowth of his deep interest in technology and love of client service. Thomas has assisted clients, large and small, plaintiff and defendant, in obtaining outcomes that serve their unique business goals. Thomas is well-versed in a variety of technologies including semiconductor devices, telecommunications, and other electrical and mechanical disciplines. Prior to entering private practice Thomas served as a patent examiner with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for many years.

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Practice:

  • Intellectual Property
  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Joseph Kolker Senior Associate

New York

In his trial-level practice, Joey develops legal strategy, writes persuasive and accessible briefs, and works as embedded appellate counsel at trial. Joey has drafted dozens of briefs in litigation involving patent infringement claims, false advertising claims, and other complex business disputes. At trial, in his hybrid role as embedded appellate counsel, Joey advises on legal strategy and preservation issues and drafts and argues trial motions, briefs, and jury instructions. 

In his appellate practice, Joey has presented argument before the Federal Circuit and Third Circuit, and drafted briefs at the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Federal Circuits, and at the U.S. Supreme Court, across a wide range of subject matters--ranging from patents, copyright, and contract interpretation to white collar and criminal procedure, immigration, and civil rights law.

Before joining Orrick, Joey served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Michael A. Chagares of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Janet Bond Arterton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Prior to clerking, he worked as a civil rights litigation fellow in the New York office of a national firm.

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Practice:

  • Data Centers
  • Renewable Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Offshore Wind
  • Energy Storage
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Power

Patrick Ferguson Partner

San Francisco

Patrick Ferguson brings two decades of experience guiding clients through the development, financing, acquisition, and sale of some of the most innovative energy projects in the United States. His practice spans a wide range of technologies—including solar, wind, geothermal, energy storage, and natural gas peaking and combined-cycle plants—and he is recognized for his ability to navigate complex regulatory, commercial, and transactional challenges.

Patrick advises project sponsors at every stage of the development lifecycle. His work includes negotiating power purchase and long-term offtake agreements, physical and financial swaps, interconnection and engineering arrangements, operations and maintenance agreements, and management services agreements. He has led the negotiation of many gigawatts of energy storage tolling and capacity agreements with utilities as well as commercial and industrial offtakers, and regularly counsels major power companies on energy and capacity sales under WSPP, EEI, and ISDA contracting frameworks.

Patrick also plays a leading role in the rapidly expanding data center sector. He represents power producers and data center companies in the development of hyperscale facilities across the country, advising on power sleeving arrangements with utilities and behind-the-meter energy solutions. He is the editor of Megawatts to Megabytes: Orrick’s 2025 Guide to Developing, Financing & Powering Data Centers, the firm’s definitive publication on data center infrastructure and energy strategy.

A recognized authority in energy regulation, Patrick has been at the forefront of many of the industry’s most significant and groundbreaking projects. Clients recommend him in Chambers USA for his “expert regulatory and commercial advice” and his “experience across a range of assets including solar and geothermal power plants and transmission lines.” He is ranked as a market leader by Chambers USA, Legal 500 USA, and Best Lawyers.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure

Stanley Dirks Senior Counsel

San Francisco

He represents issuers and underwriters of tax-exempt bonds to finance a variety of public facilities and programs, including water and power systems, airports, schools, rental housing loan programs and homeownership loan programs.

Stan has served as a lecturer and panelist on a variety of programs concerning state and local government debt issuance. He also served for ten years as one of the original members of the Technical Advisory Committee of the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.

Stan also has a long history of involvement in the governance of nonprofit education, arts and other charitable organizations.

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Practice:

  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Ramona Sorgenfrei Managing Associate

Düsseldorf

She has experience in telecommunications licensing disputes and litigating FRAND objections and D&O disputes, as well as in disputes under the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

In addition to experience in arbitration proceedings under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL VIAC and the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce (ACHCCI), Ramona acts as administrative secretary in DIS arbitrations. 

She is a lecturer in arbitration and international commercial law at the University of Bayreuth where she also coaches the university's team in the Willem C. Vis Moot. Further to her legal studies, Ramona has also completed a university degree in economics.

During her education, she worked in US firms in Germany and Paris, where she deepened her knowledge of arbitration, litigation, and dispute resolution. Prior to joining Orrick, Ramona worked as a litigation lawyer for a magic circle law firm in Germany, including patent litigation involving patent infringement, nullity, and patent vindication proceedings, particularly in the telecommunications and automotive industries.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

Donald Field Partner

Orange County; Los Angeles

He is also a member of Orrick's Leasing Practice Group, Assessment/Mello-Roos Practice Group, and Revenue Practice Group. Don has extensive experience, as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter's counsel, in the financing techniques used by school and community college districts, cities and counties in California. His practice focuses on local governmental infrastructure financing, including general obligation bond financing, municipal lease financing, and land-secured financing, as well as tax and revenue anticipation note (TRAN), pension obligation and other post-employment benefit (OPEB) obligation financings. Don serves as the lead lawyer for the California School Boards Association's annual tax and revenue anticipation note pool. 


Saurabh Gupta Counsel

Washington, D.C.

Saurabh leverages interdisciplinary training in biology, materials science, and electronics to deliver laser-focused, trial-ready advocacy—simplifying complex technologies into persuasive arguments that both win in court and drive clients’ commercial goals. Clients seek him out for his deep experience, analytical rigor, and razor-sharp instincts in consequential patent disputes.

Saurabh has applied these skills across a spectrum of market-leading disputes. He was instrumental in securing a favorable settlement for a blockbuster lung cancer therapy on the eve of trial after years of litigation and in defending a top-selling osteoporosis drug against validity and infringement challenges. He helped obtain inventorship recognition in landmark proceedings involving the first-in-class COVID-19 mRNA-LNP vaccine that saved millions of lives and generated billions in revenue. He protected a small biotech innovator’s next-generation DNA sequencing platform with innovative design-arounds against aggressive patent assertions and reinforced a major electronics manufacturer’s defense in a multi-jurisdiction jury trial over internet-based digital content sales, with substantial damages at stake.

Saurabh was a founding staff editor of Georgetown Technology Journal. Saurabh’s PhD thesis—which proposed a CRISPR-based therapy for common infections—earned the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Award as one of the five most innovative solutions to a global health challenge.

Saurabh has represented clients before U.S. district courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Intellectual Property
  • U.S. International Trade Commission
  • Patents
  • IP Counseling & Due Diligence
  • Trade Secrets Litigation

Bas de Blank Partner

Silicon Valley

In addition to his ITC practice, Bas also heads Orrick’s contentious prosecution practice. He has led more than 30 IPRs and first-chaired more than a dozen trials before the United States Patent Office, as well as represented clients in dozens of trials in district courts, and before PTAB.

As someone with degrees in both engineering and English literature, Bas is uniquely suited to present complicated topics to non-technical audiences. He has represented clients in fields as diverse as semiconductor processing and structure, GPS and geosynchronous satellites, image texture and graphics processing, Internet switches and communications, and various consumer products.

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Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Capital Markets
  • China

Lu (Echo) Wang Senior Associate

Beijing

Her practice focuses on advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets and SEC compliance matters.