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401246

Practice:

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

Martina Pfaffinger Senior Associate

Munich

She has particular experience in representing Asian clients from the automotive sector in DIS arbitration proceedings. Clients benefit from her background as corporate / M&A lawyer and her experience with shareholder disputes, management liability cases, post-M&A disputes and other contentious commercial matters. As a trained business mediator, Martina also advises clients on the extrajudicial settlement of conflicts and the avoidance of disputes at an early stage when negotiating and drafting contracts.

Prior to joining Orrick, Martina worked at the Munich office of a leading U.S. law firm and the Munich / New York City offices of a renowned German law firm.

Martina currently writes her doctoral thesis on a subject relating to management liability.

462616

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group

Cody Peterson Partner

Los Angeles; Santa Monica

Cody works with founders at every stage, from early formation to financing rounds, acquisitions, and IPOs. He has a particular focus on first-time founders navigating the complexities of startup life, helping them make informed decisions without getting lost in legal jargon.

Before becoming a lawyer, Cody was the COO of a health and fitness e-commerce startup in Las Vegas. That entrepreneurial experience shaped his approach—he brings a “nothing is impossible” mindset and a deep understanding that legal matters are just one piece of the puzzle for founders. His advice is always practical, actionable, and tailored to the realities of running a fast-moving business.

Cody represents both startups and venture funds across industries including e-commerce, fintech, climatetech, future of work, edtech, life sciences, and biotech. He also leverages Orrick’s deep industry focuses and innovative legal tools to help high-growth companies navigate financings, IPOs, and M&A transactions.

An active member of the LA startup community, Cody regularly mentors and coaches founders, including participants in the Plug In Accelerator, a program supporting Black and Latinx early-stage entrepreneurs.

Cody earned his law degree from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Pomona College. Before joining Orrick, he was a partner and co-founder of Gunderson Dettmer’s Los Angeles office.

370295

Practice:

  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Patents
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Clement Seth Roberts Partner

San Francisco

Clem acts as lead counsel for companies of all sizes across a broad range of industries. He has lead cases dealing with machine learning and AI, medical devices, network security, pharmaceuticals (both Hatch Waxman and competitor cases), video games, battery chemistry, consumer electronics, blockchain and other payments systems, streaming video, ticketing systems, telecommunications, and many more.

Clem has an active trial practice. In 2023 alone, Clem acted as lead counsel for teams that won two jury verdicts, three ITC proceedings, and numerous IPRs and dispositive motions.

Clem has been recognized in the Daily Journal’s list of the top 75 IP Litigators in California. In the latest Chambers USA rankings, clients note he is a “very persuasive advocate who knows the law inside out and is able to get to the heart of the issue very quickly.“ Managing Intellectual Property described him as a “highly respected litigator in the California IP market and beyond.” Intellectual Asset Management’s Patent 1000 notes he is a “commercially savvy first-chair trial lawyer,” a “tenacious, pragmatic litigator who excels at finding innovative solutions,” “one of the best writers anywhere” and a “fantastic negotiator.”

Current clients include Sonos, Take-Two, Johnson & Johnson, Altice, Roblox, Go1, Checkpoint, RingCentral, Smart Contract, Hisense and Only Fans.

Clem serves on Orrick’s Management Committee and formerly served as head of the firm’s 100-lawyer IP practice.

Clem also maintains an active pro-bono practice focused on environmental impact litigation. He lives in Marin and spends his free time cycling around Mt. Tam.

365184

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

Greg Shields Of Counsel

Austin

Greg’s experience in bond financing includes traditional issuers such as school districts, institutions of higher education, cities, counties, municipal utility districts and state agenciesadvising the issuers on both general obligation and revenue financings. In addition, Greg has represented numerous national and regional investment banks in the underwriting of municipal bonds.

340940

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Restructuring
  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Pay Equity

Emmanuel Benard Partner

Paris

Emmanuel represents numerous French and international companies on all aspects of employment law including international and cross-border issues.

His practice focuses on reorganizations, collective redundancies. He notably advised key players of the Financial, Metal, Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical, Technology, Leisure and Music Industries in implementing economic dismissals and voluntary departures. He also assists these clients with employee representation and collective bargaining and sensitive individual cases.

Emmanuel has a strong proficiency in collective litigation as well as criminal litigation and currently handles a number of sensitive cases arising from works council and health and safety committee information consultation procedure, professional elections, collective bargaining agreements and employees performance appraisal system.

With a long-standing experience on landmark M&A, he regularly supports HR Directors in dealing with works council information and consultation procedures and transfer of employees triggered by such complex projects, helping them achieving their strategic objectives.

Co-author of an insightful and pedagogic book on all labor and employment facets of companies’ reorganization, Emmanuel is described by his clients as “a guru in the field of employment law” and praised for his “business sense”.

Before joining Orrick in 2016, Emmanuel was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris, where he was in charge of the Employment, Pension and Benefits Department. Prior to that he was partner at the boutique employment law firm Bélier et Associés where he started his career.

380251

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Class Action Defense
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation

Matthew D. LaBrie Partner

Boston; San Francisco

In his commercial litigation practice, Matthew represents clients in federal and state court at the trial and appellate levels. While Matthew routinely assists clients at all stages of the litigation process, through motions practice, discovery, witness preparation, and trial, he has a particular focus on class action defense. Matthew's litigation experience is broad, including data security litigation, commercial and contractual disputes in all industries, shareholder derivative litigation, and class action defense, as well as commercial arbitration. His current engagements include representation of clients facing consumer class actions arising out of a data breach of the MOVEit file transfer software; a social media company facing consumer class actions arising out of a data breach; the University of Washington in a pandemic-related class action seeking refunds of tuition and fees on behalf of students; and a series of litigations over the ownership and control of a social media company.  

In his cybersecurity practice, Matthew counsels clients across the globe through all stages of a privacy or data security incident, navigating the relevant legal regimes, managing the response to and investigation of an incident, and handling any litigation or regulatory investigation resulting from the incident. Matthew spent a year based in Orrick's London office developing and coordinating Orrick's worldwide data breach incident response and litigation capabilities.

Matthew maintains an active pro bono practice. He has assisted individual clients with family law matters, advocated on behalf of veterans' and immigrants' rights, and represented human trafficking survivors in a series of federal cases.

421329

Practice:

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

Haley Flora Managing Associate

Silicon Valley

Haley Flora's practice is focused on her client's transactional technology and intellectual property needs. Haley represents clients at all stages of their life cycles and in a variety of technology and science-driven industries, including cleantech, SaaS, gaming, energy, hardware, entertainment, Internet, media, semiconductor and media. Haley has experience drafting and negotiating commercial, licensing and other intellectual property and technology agreements. She also assists clients with intellectual property issues in connection with a range of large commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments.

Haley grew up in Portland, Oregon and is passionate about zero emissions technologies. Prior to joining Orrick, Haley was an associate in the IP and Technology Transactions Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

96942

Practice:

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

John Ansbro Partner

New York

John litigates a wide range of commercial disputes, including financial services litigations involving RMBS, disputes in the wind and solar power industries across a host of contractual issues, construction disputes, long-term take-or-pay and liquidated damages disputes, force majeure, bankruptcy litigation, insurance recovery, and commercial real estate foreclosure. He was also an arbitrator on an ICC International Court of Arbitration panel in a cross-border industrial contract dispute.

COVID-19’s unprecedented global market impact has clients across an array of industries seeking John’s counsel on force majeure and related breach of contract disputes. These include force majeure matters across jurisdictions and industries, including Energy & Infrastructure, Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services, Real Estate, Hospitality, and Retail.

John litigates significant, high stakes matters. For example, in 2017 on behalf of his client Hemlock Semiconductor Corp., in a case of first impression in Michigan, on appeal John won the dismissal of an attempt by a Japanese conglomerate to avoid $1.4 billion in purchase obligations on the theory that alleged acts by the Chinese Government constituted an “act of government” under the parties’ force majeure provision. The Michigan Bar Journal declared it one of the top 10 business cases of 2010-2019. In 2019, one of the very few RMBS actions to be tried, John was trial counsel for Credit Suisse Securities USA in a $700 million dispute in the Supreme Court of New York. At trial he handled the defense expert in the critical area of loan underwriting.

Prior to joining Orrick, John was a Litigation Associate at Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine LLP.

427390

Practice:

  • Private Equity
  • Fintech
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Funds

Kenneth Rasamny Of Counsel

Orange County; Santa Monica

Ken guides asset managers and investors on a variety of formation, operational and regulatory matters regarding private funds, including venture capital funds, private equity and debt funds, hedge funds, co-investments and other alternative businesses in the United States and internationally.

340579

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Banking & Finance
  • Private Credit
  • Finance

Meredith Dawson Partner

New York

Meredith joined the firm as a summer associate in the New York office in 2016. Through years of hands-on experience and collaborative client relationships, she has developed a multifaceted understanding of financing structures in credit and lending. Meredith’s transactional experience includes acquisition and leveraged finance facilities; direct lending transactions; first lien, second lien and first-out/last-out unitranche facilities; recurring revenue loans; and asset-based and other specialty financings across a variety of industries.
Thomas Laryea, Orrick Of Counsel

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Restructuring
  • Banking & Finance
  • Governmental Affairs
  • Antitrust & Competition
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Africa
  • Funds

Thomas Wyatt Laryea Counsel

Washington, D.C.

Thomas formerly served as Assistant General Counsel at the International Monetary Fund, where he was responsible for the IMF’s legal relations in finance and economic surveillance with each of its member countries. As the only senior IMF lawyer in private practice, he offers distinctive insights to asset managers, real money investors and hedge funds on sovereign debt and restructurings as well as large scale corporate restructurings and project financings. His practice bridges legal and strategic advice on the transactional, public policy and dispute resolution aspects of international finance and investment.

Thomas has advised on several recent high-profile sovereign debt restructurings, including representing the Argentina Creditor Committee on the restructuring of $65 billion of Argentina’s foreign currency bonds. He also recently represented the Steering Members of the Committee on Bondholders in the reprofiling of Belize’s bonds.

He is recognized as a key lawyer in the Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Municipal category of The Legal 500 US 2022 directory. A client remarked that he “provided invaluable advice on the IMF policies, individual personalities and missions which helped us to understand the sovereign’s priorities with the IMF” that “will then frame our negotiations with the sovereign.” “Thomas is highly respected in the sovereign restructuring space.”

Thomas is an active thought leader and has published numerous articles on sovereign debt and international finance.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

Lina Thoreson Of Counsel

Sacramento

Lina M. Thoreson is of counsel in the Sacramento office and a member of the firm's nationally recognized Public Finance Department. She has broad experience acting as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriter's counsel in tax-exempt financings for healthcare borrowers include large and small healthcare providers, healthcare systems and stand-alone healthcare facilities. She also acts as bond counsel or underwriter's counsel for other 501(c)(3) borrowers.


Lina has experience working on many types of public finance transactions, including fixed and variable, tax-exempt and taxable, liquidity supported bonds, conversions, reofferings and direct purchases.