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Oladoyin Olanrewaju Associate

Seattle

Oladoyin Olanrewaju supports cybersecurity and privacy regulatory compliance, incident preparedness, incident response and transactional matters for clients.

Oladoyin advises clients with identifying, remediating, and mitigating cyber security incidents and threats. Oladoyin manages clients in their data breach investigations including advising clients on data breach notification responsibilities and providing tactical and strategic advice on how to manage cybersecurity risks.

Oladoyin assists clients in developing the tools they need to enhance their data privacy and security profile and build comprehensive global data protection programs. She provides guidance on issues relating to numerous privacy and cybersecurity laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Colorado Privacy Act, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), state data breach notification laws and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Bryn R Pallesen Senior Associate

Seattle

Bryn is a litigator who routinely handles all aspects of civil and class action litigation before both federal and state courts. She has deep experience in antitrust and competition, complex commercial, and constitutional matters, bringing creativity, practicality, and a collegial approach to each engagement.

Prior to joining Orrick, Bryn was a litigation associate in the New York office of another international law firm and, most recently, at a Seattle trial boutique. She also served as a law clerk for two federal district courts.

Mark Parris Partner

Seattle

Mark S. Parris is Chair of the firm’s Global Litigation Practice and serves as Lead Director on the firm’s Board of Directors.

"An outstanding trial lawyer, very strategic, very responsive and very creative," according to Chambers USA's Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

His experience includes representing Fortune 500 and other clients from various industries (e.g. technology, financial services, chemical/manufacturing, energy, retail). The litigation has involved IP, Securities, Insurance, Employment, Products Liability, Class Actions and significant contract disputes in Federal and State courts and before arbitration panels throughout the United States. He has been a speaker nationally at various seminars on litigation, arbitration, mediation and trial techniques. Mark has tried dozens of cases – both jury and non-jury trials – and mediated and arbitrated 75-plus cases. He has argued numerous appeals in Federal Circuits across the country and has served as an expert witness on multiple occasions. Mark has also served as National Counsel to a number of clients involved in multi-state litigation. He has been recognized as one of America’s Top 100 Bet-The-Company Litigators, is one of two IP litigators in Washington selected as an Amazing Attorney by Washington CEO magazine and was recently recognized as one of the top 30 Trial Lawyers in Washington.

In addition, Mark is a member of the firm’s Insurance Recovery Group. He has been named as the leading policy-holder side attorney in Washington State. He has represented several Fortune 500 companies as well as the State of Washington, the Washington Association of Municipal Attorneys and several cities, counties and port authorities in insurance coverage disputes.

Prior to joining Orrick, Mark was a partner at Heller Ehrman.

Jeremy Peterman Senior Associate

Seattle

Jeremy focuses on high-stakes appeals and intellectual property disputes.

Jeremy represents clients from a wide range of industries in high stakes appeals across numerous subject areas. He has helped major tech companies, biomedical manufacturers, universities, and state governments successfully resolve appeals with novel issues involving intellectual property, employment law, administrative law, class actions, criminal law, sovereign immunity, and securities law.

Jeremy is especially experienced in intellectual property appeals where he employs his generalist background to simplify complex technology for generalist judges. He helped develop the successful appellate strategy in what legal observers have dubbed “The World Series of Copyright Suits.” He also draws from his administrative law background to develop novel strategies for clients to challenge the PTO’s administration of the inter partes review process.

Jeremy has authored merits briefs, cert. petitions, and briefs in opposition in the U.S. Supreme Court, dozens of briefs in both federal and state courts of appeals, and dispositive motions in trial counts. He also maintains an active pro bono practice.

Prior to joining Orrick, Jeremy served as a law clerk to Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Judge David Hamilton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Marissa Prieto Managing Associate

Seattle

Marissa is a managing associate in the Energy & Infrastructure practice group, focusing on energy transactions, project finance and development, and debt and acquisition finance, particularly for renewable projects.

Her experience includes representing borrowers, sponsors, investors and lenders in a variety of financing and equity arrangements, including project and portfolio M&A, development financing, equity investments and joint ventures with wind, solar and other alternative energy projects.

Christine Reynolds Partner

Portland; Seattle

Christine Reynolds is a partner in the Public Finance Department. She has broad experience as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter’s counsel and borrower’s counsel across a wide range of public finance sectors.  

Christine has more than two decades of experience in public infrastructure finance, advising on both traditional bond financings and innovative funding structures. She serves as a Vice-Chair of the Public Finance Group and on the leadership team for the Impact Finance Group.

Christine’s experience includes various general obligation and revenue bond financings, including those relating to transportation, education, healthcare, water and wastewater, economic development, urban renewal, public power and other infrastructure financings.

She has extensive knowledge and experience with disclosure requirements for municipal issuers under federal securities laws, including both initial and continuing disclosure issues, material events disclosure, public offerings, private placements and other matters.

Christine is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars given by trade and professional organizations within the municipal finance industry, including serving as Chair for The Bond Buyer's 2022 Infrastructure Conference.

Paul F. Rugani Partner

Los Angeles; New York; Seattle

Financial institutions, accounting firms, and public companies turn to Paul Rugani to advise them in connection with their most significant exposures. Paul has helped his clients achieve victories through motion practice, at trial, and on appeal. And his advocacy for clients before government regulators has successfully minimized or avoided potential enforcement action.

Legal 500 touts Paul as a recommended attorney for Securities Litigation, observing that he is “among the most creative and strategic lawyers” who always has “an eye on the end game.”  Paul achieved American Lawyer Litigator of the Week recognition as part of a team that achieved a ground-breaking New York Court of Appeals victory that substantially reduced financial exposure in RMBS repurchase litigation. He has been recognized for many years as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for Securities Litigation.

As the leader of the Firm's Securities Litigation practice group, Paul has extensive experience representing clients in securities class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits, commercial contractual disputes and other complex litigation matters at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as in connection with internal, government and regulatory investigations. Paul also counsels domestic and foreign accounting firms on matters related to state CPA licensing and state board regulation.

Joseph C Santiesteban Partner

Seattle

Joe is a trusted cybersecurity lawyer and strategic advisor, who regularly steers clients through data breaches as a partner in crisis management.

He brings significant experience advising companies – from one of the largest telecommunications providers to leading entertainment companies to startups on the cutting-edge of AI and more – on the full cycle of an incident. He also advises clients regarding regulatory investigations, class actions, and contract disputes that frequently flow from privacy and cybersecurity incidents.

His goal is to help clients respond quickly and with integrity to protect their brand, build trust and mitigate legal risk. He is highly adept at directing incident investigations, analyzing potential claims and defenses, examining potential notification obligations and advising on communications strategies that build trust and engagement.

Joe is committed to using these experiences to finding creative and engaging strategies to help companies proactively prepare for an incident and mitigate cybersecurity legal risk. This includes helping to build and improve incident response programs through incident response plans, simulated incidents, threat workshops, and training.  It also includes assisting clients to practically evaluate legal risk of security decisions in a variety of transactions and across the product lifecycle. He is driven by a desire to evolve what it means to be a cybersecurity lawyer in the face of rapidly evolving technologies and laws. As a leader, he strives to create spaces where people are valued and solve problems creatively and collaboratively.

He also provides strategic advice to cybersecurity companies, including those looking to push technological and defense boundaries in cyber defense, incident response, and threat intelligence. This includes helping companies maximize their security offerings by navigating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), and the Federal Wiretap Act, as well as state law analogs.

Joe serves on the Orrick’s Finance and Audit Committee and Pro Bono Committee. A leader and advocate for diversity and inclusion initiatives, Joseph is the co-head of the Latinx affinity group at Orrick and served as a fellow for the Leadership Counsel on Legal Diversity. He is also a member of the Washington Latino Bar Association and the Hispanic National Bar Association.

Audrey Schricker Senior Associate

Seattle

Audrey Schricker is a Senior Associate in Orrick’s M&A and Private Equity Group.

Audrey’s practice involves a broad range of transactions, including representation of sellers, investors, and private equity funds and their portfolio companies in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments, reorganizations, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and secondary transactions. In addition to her extensive representation of private equity sponsors and growth equity investors in their acquisition of and primary investments into private companies, Audrey serves as outside general counsel to private companies, advising on general corporate, governance, and executive employment matters. She represents clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, life sciences, tech, and manufacturing.

For the past four years, Audrey was named a Super Lawyers’ Rising Star, a national ranking that recognizes lawyers under 40 who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Aravind Swaminathan Partner

Seattle; Boston

Aravind Swaminathan helps clients navigate a new world of regulatory risk, from cybersecurity incidents to online Trust & Safety to defending executives in high-stakes litigation and enforcement actions. In all of his work, he draws on his roots as a federal cybercrime prosecutor and a high school technology teacher.

A leading cybersecurity and online safety authority, Aravind is recognized by Chambers USA in Privacy and Data Security in both Litigation and Incident Response. Clients describe him as “a very talented lawyer experienced with incident responses” and “incredibly responsive and technically savvy.”

Aravind’s deep knowledge of his clients’ business objectives and technological capabilities distinguishes him as a strategic advisor and frontline crisis responder. He advises some of the world’s leading online platforms, public and private financial institutions, tech companies, higher education institutions, and critical infrastructure providers on cybersecurity, and their obligations to monitor and remove harmful or illegal content online and root out instances of child exploitation.

He is adept at guiding companies through cybersecurity incidents, having directed more than 500 data breach investigations, including enterprise-wide network intrusions to cyberattacks with national security implications. Aravind defends clients in an array of cybersecurity and privacy class actions and regulatory enforcement actions brought by the SEC, FTC, NY DFS and State AGs, and also represents individual C-level executives in criminal and civil regulatory enforcement matters.

As a former assistant United States attorney, he investigated and prosecuted a broad array of cybercrime, child exploitation cases, digital crimes, and white-collar crime cases. This first-hand knowledge of federal agencies allows him to navigate the system, partner with investigators and find creative solutions for clients.

Aravind is a member of Orrick’s Board of Directors, and he devotes much of his free time to advising independent schools on AI, online safety, and cybersecurity, and teaching and coaching.

Nicole Mikiko Tadano Of Counsel

Seattle

Nicole Tadano works to defend clients facing privacy-related class actions, consumer-protection class actions and data breach litigation. Nicole also leverages this experience to advise and guide clients in evaluating and complying with various laws and regulations, including those concerning data security, data breach notification and wiretap and call recording.

Nicole also has a deep background in a broad array of other types of class actions and complex civil litigation, including matters involving securities, employment and contract issues in the technology, media and financial services industries.

Ashley Walter Partner

Seattle

Ashley Walter advises technology and life sciences companies on strategy, oversight and compliance with respect to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) measures. He approaches sustainability from a governance perspective, helping clients to develop an appropriate framework in which to advance their ESG programs.

As Partner-in-Charge, ESG, Ashley assists public and private companies and their boards in establishing effective oversight of ESG matters, preparing ESG disclosures, addressing ESG commercial requirements, managing investor engagement with respect to ESG matters, and ensuring compliance with ESG laws and regulations. He also works with investment funds to develop fund-level and portfolio company ESG programs that address the full investment cycle, that are responsive to limited partner expectations, and that are appropriate for the stage, industry and business model of portfolio companies. He leverages a firm grounding in ESG substantive issues, significant experience in the design and implementation of ESG policies and procedures, and sector-specific knowledge to develop practical ESG solutions for clients in the tech sector and beyond.

Ashley is a co-founder and past chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility Law Committee of the ABA Business Law Section, has taught the course “Corporate Social Responsibility” as a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, and is a co-editor of The Lawyer’s Corporate Social Responsibility Deskbook, a resource for legal departments and outside counsel to address ESG performance and risk. He has co-chaired the Practicing Law Institute's annual full-day ESG program for the last two years, has served as a moderator at the Stanford Directors' College, and has spoken on private company ESG for a workshop delivered by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.