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398073

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy Storage

Eric Newman Associate

Houston

He counsels clients on a variety of transactions in the energy industry, with a focus on renewable energy project development. Before law school, Eric worked as a geologist, first in upstream oil and gas and then in the environmental remediation industry. He also owned a vegetable farm in Upstate New York.

417852

Practice:

  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • Intellectual Property
  • Patents

Jennifer Ng Senior Patent Agent

San Francisco

Jennifer works with life sciences clients in the areas of genomics, genome editing, antibody therapeutics, immuno-oncology therapies, cell-based therapies, protein therapeutics, antisense technologies, and pharmaceutical compositions and formulations. She has experience in preparing and prosecuting US and foreign patent applications, strategic counseling and managing global patent portfolios, and performing due diligence, freedom to operate, and patentability analyses.

Prior to joining Orrick, Jennifer was a senior patent agent at a large national law firm in San Francisco.

Before becoming a patent agent, Jennifer was a postdoctoral fellow at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and she investigated cardiomyocyte differentiation from stem cells. Her doctoral studies at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies focused on transcriptional regulatory systems during organ development. She has co-authored peer-reviewed journal articles in the fields of genetics, molecular biology and cell biology.

423495

Practice:

  • Technology Transactions
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Rachel Nghe Associate

Silicon Valley

Rachel's practice is focused on her client's transactional technology and intellectual property needs. Rachel represents clients at all stages of their life cycles and in a variety of technology-driven industries, including SaaS, artificial intelligence, gaming, entertainment, and media. Rachel has experience drafting commercial, licensing and other intellectual property and technology agreements. She also assists clients with intellectual property issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Rachel spent three years working on the commercial and product counseling teams at Dropbox, Inc., and two years with the Department of Justice Anti-trust division. She was also an active member of the ChIPs Network focusing on advancing and connecting women in technology, law and policy while she was in law school.

KT Nguyen Associate

Seattle

KT assists these companies with their legal needs as they expand, with a focus on corporate governance and venture financing. He also represents venture capital firms seeking to invest in these high growth companies.

KT graduated from the University of Washington School of Law, where he served as a Managing Editor of the Washington Law Review. He also was a member of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, where he advised entrepreneurs on early stage general corporate and intellectual property matters.

Prior to attending law school, KT was a graduate student researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. During grad school, he also worked in the technology transfer office where he helped to consult with inventors within the university to assess the patentability and commercialization prospects of their inventions.

398301

Practice:

  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Government Investigations and Enforcement Actions
  • Securities Litigation, Class Actions and Shareholder Derivative Lawsuits
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance

Serena Nichols Managing Associate

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. 

456536

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group

Lauren Nilles Associate

New York

Lauren also represents investors and venture capital firms in their investments in technology companies. 

Prior to joining Orrick, Lauren was an associate in the Corporate Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in New York. 

416864

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Finance
  • Structured Finance

Caleb R. Nissley Managing Associate

Los Angeles

Caleb represents issuers, sponsors, placement agents, underwriters, servicers, and other market participants in connection with securitizations, private placements, asset financings, sales, and the negotiation of lending facilities.

He is also active in several pro bono cases involving the Geneva Convention IV’s application to the ongoing Russo-Ukraine war and that of a Ghanan family seeking asylum.

In 2020, Caleb graduated from the University of California, Irvine School of Law. While in law school, Caleb co-authored a brief argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and served as Editor for the UC Irvine Law Review.

Prior to law school, he worked for several years at J.P. Morgan Chase with positions in corporate finance, mortgage banking, credit card operations, and compliance.

458512

Practice:

  • Structured Finance
  • Banking & Finance

Filippo Nola Senior Associate

Milan

Filippo has developed significant experience in real estate transactions and all types of acquisition financings and leveraged buyouts transactions both in the syndicated and in the take-and-hold space, including senior debt, unitranche financings, high yield debt and mezzanine capital, structured as loan facilities as well as bonds issuances.

Prior to joining Orrick, Filippo was an associate in a primary standing international law firm.

367521

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure

Seth Norris Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Prior to Orrick, Seth worked as a legal intern for the Beijing office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he conducted research on international environmental permitting standards, and as a consultant for a Boston-based energy & infrastructure holding company, where he advised on globalization and work force optimization strategies for a wind turbine services business.

Flavio Notari Partner

Milan; Rome

Flavio coordinates the tax practice within the Technology Company Group of the Italian offices. An Italian Certified Public Accountant and Statutory Auditor (Dottore Commercialista), registered with the Rome Register of Accountants and Auditors (Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti and Registro dei Revisori Legali), Flavio has gained extensive experience in both Italy and the United States working with leading law and accounting firms in the field of domestic and international taxation.

He has significant expertise advising technology companies and multinational industrial groups on tax matters, including start-up and scale-up phases, venture capital transactions, internationalization processes, and the taxation aspects of extraordinary operations.

As a tax advisor to business accelerators, VC funds, and numerous tech start-ups, Flavio closely follows developments in the Italian entrepreneurial ecosystem, fostering competitiveness and promoting a culture of risk-taking.

Flavio is also an adjunct lecturer in Financial Accounting at John Cabot University.

As Co-Founder of BAIA Italia – Business Association Italy America, he contributes to defining the association’s vision and strategy.

He is a member of the AIAF – Associazione Italiana degli Analisti e Consulenti Finanziari study group on innovative start-ups.

Flavio is the author of several publications on taxation and is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops.

*Not an admitted lawyer

 

Yvonne Nyborg Analyst

San Francisco

Yvonne T. Nyborg is an Employee Benefits Analyst with 28 years of experience providing sophisticated legal services to large clients with multiple complex tax-qualified retirement plans.  As an Employee Benefits Analyst, she provides high level legal services at reduced rates. 

She focuses on qualified retirement plan design and compliance, including company acquisitions and dispositions, plan mergers and spinouts, large controlled group nondiscrimination testing analysis, plan drafting and preparation of employee communications and enrollment materials.  Yvonne has extensive experience in defined benefit plan compliance issues, and in terminations of large defined benefit plans in accordance with Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation requirements.  She is also an authority on obtaining favorable determination letters from the Internal Revenue Service approving the tax-qualified status of various types of retirement plans, and in responding to Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor plan audits.  In addition, Yvonne is highly proficient in answering day-to-day administration issues and in assisting attorneys with the research of legal issues impacting all types of employee benefit plans.

Yvonne has completed courses I-III, VI, VIII, IX, Certified Employee Benefit Specialist Program, 1987-1993, and holds a Certificate from the Institute for Employee Benefits Training, 1985.  She received her B.A. degree from the State University of New York at Albany in 1984.
381828

Practice:

  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Intellectual Property

Robert M. O'Connell Jr. Of Counsel

Boston

His experience includes clearance, registration and protection of trademarks, trade dress and designs; opposition and cancellation proceedings in the TTAB; UDRP and other domain name proceedings; registration and protection of copyrights; negotiation and drafting of a variety of coexistence, licensing and other IP-related agreements; and providing IP support on various M&A and financing transactions, most recently including a groundbreaking series of securitization deals involving music and television rights involving household-name artists.

Businesses ranging from small start-ups to multi-billion-dollar corporations turn to Bob for help developing and implementing cost-effective domestic and global branding and trademark protection plans. They hail from the financial services, food & beverage, apparel, retail and pharmaceutical industries, among others.

Bob’s significant transactional experience includes a trademark and merchandise license agreement for a large resort casino in Las Vegas, and naming rights and sponsorship agreements for a major league sports stadium and a prominent performing arts center.

He also has extensive commercial litigation and dispute resolution experience in both intellectual property and other matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts, in inter partes and appellate matters before the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, and in UDRP arbitration proceedings. Noteworthy reported cases include: Coach Services, Inc. v. Triumph Learning LLC, 96 U.S.P.Q.2d 1600 (TTAB September 17, 2010) affirmed, 668 F.3d 1356 (Fed. Cir. 2012).

In the 2023 edition of World Trademark Review 1000, a listing of the world’s top trademark practitioners based on peer and client surveys, Bob received top-tier rankings for trademark prosecution and strategy with clients praising him for his “pragmatism, calmness, under pressure and fine-grained, detailed work product. Previously, WTR 1000 reported that Bob “wins effusive praise for his “pragmatic approach and unparalleled attention to detail.” “Simply stated, he is among the most cost-effective, business-oriented lawyers in any specialty.” “He is of incredible value – he matches anybody on expertise and exceeds most, if not all, on responsiveness and efficiency.” In prior years, WTR 1000 reviewers have said: “He never fails to address domestic and global branding issues quickly and comprehensively, causing one client to profess: ‘He is the only lawyer that I would use for trademark work in the Boston area.’” Bob has been characterized as a “distinguished” and “highly respected practitioner” with “a great reputation” in multinational mandates, who is “a trusted adviser in helping to build value in…brands” and “commands respect” particularly in the strategy and commercial field.” He has been listed in WTR 1000 each year since its inaugural edition in 2011, as well as WTR’s Global Leaders short-list since 2019.

Noteworthy past and present client engagements include:

  • A famous sports footwear and apparel brand with trademark enforcement and opposition matters;
  • The world’s largest retailer with trademark clearance matters across several business lines, as well as complex trademark prosecution and TTAB matters;
  • A “super-regional” bank with a portfolio of hundreds of federal and state trademarks and an active TTAB and UDRP enforcement program;
  • A global spirits company with hundreds of brands and an extensive enforcement docket;
  • A leading global private equity firm;
  • A national women’s apparel retail chain with stores across the United States and Canada; and
  • A branded pharmaceutical company with pioneering products for both human and veterinary medicine.