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Ashley Fletcher Project Attorney

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

Ashley works with litigation attorneys and third party vendors to manage the review and production of documents relevant to investigations and litigation. This work includes using early case assessment technology to analyze, categorize and cull data. She also manages teams of skilled professionals performing document review, redaction, analysis, production and drafting privilege logs. Ashley assists the litigation team to prepare for trial, including drafting deposition summaries, factual memoranda and exhibit charts. She also works with practice office attorneys on transactional tasks, including contract review and due diligence.

Ashley has dedicated significant time to pro bono matters, including assisting trial counsel representing abused and neglected children. She is an active member of Orrick’s Associates of Color Mentoring Group, which promotes diversity and leadership among minority associates.

Guido Testa Partner

Milan

As a partner resident in Orrick’s Milan office and a senior member of the M&A and Private Equity Group, Guido is acclaimed for his broad expertise and comprehensive knowledge in the field.

In the area of M&A, he regularly assists leading corporations, investment holding companies, and family offices in structuring and negotiating domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. His experience extends across a range of industries, with a particular focus on the industrial and healthcare sectors, where he is known for his ability to manage sophisticated transactions and deliver practical solutions.

Guido’s private equity practice is distinguished by his work with both investment funds and, above all, entrepreneurs. Guido is a key legal partner to Italian entrepreneurs, advising on all aspects of corporate law and governance. He is valued for his ability to act as a business partner, providing ongoing counsel on day-to-day operations as well as long-term planning and extraordinary transactions. Clients rely on his deep sector knowledge, commercial acumen, and pragmatic approach to navigate complex legal and business challenges. Moreover, he advises investment funds on the structuring and execution of acquisitions and disposals, helping them identify opportunities, manage legal risks, and achieve their strategic objectives in the Italian market.

In the area of joint ventures, Guido has significant experience advising on the formation and management of strategic partnerships and alliances, enabling clients to pursue growth opportunities and innovation in highly competitive markets.

Guido also has extensive cross-border experience, regularly assisting international corporate and funds investing in Italy as well as Italian corporate and funds pursuing opportunities abroad, ensuring seamless execution and effective cross-border coordination.

Guido is recognized as a Leading Partner in Private Equity by Legal 500. He is ranked in Chambers Europe for Private Equity and for Corporate/M&A: Mid-Market, reflecting his strong reputation and expertise in the Italian legal market.

Dan Williams Senior Associate

San Francisco

Dan is experienced in Hatch-Waxman litigation, including disputes involving drug treatments for cancer and HIV. Dan is also experienced in biologics litigation and counseling, representing clients on matters involving expression vectors, antibodies, gene therapies, and CAR T-cell therapies. Dan’s experience includes litigating patents directed to recombinant DNA technology, complex manufacturing processes, small molecule compounds, crystalline forms, methods of treatment, oral dosage formulations, injectable formulations, and fixed dose combination products.

Dan has contributed to numerous victories on behalf of our life science clients, including a complete win in a multi-patent Hatch-Waxman trial for a client’s blockbuster cancer therapy, favorable claim constructions in numerous cases, and obtaining a special master’s report and recommendation for attorneys’ fees for the opposing parties’ exceptional discovery misconduct. Dan has courtroom advocacy experience, including presenting to the district court for Markman proceedings.

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Practice:

  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

Hagit Muriel Elul Partner

New York

Hagit represents clients in international arbitrations across the world under the rules of all the major arbitral institutions including the ICDR/AAA, ICC and LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS and CPR and in cross-border disputes in courts across the United States. She has also served as an expert witness on New York law in proceedings in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Hagit is recognised as ‘a force to be reckoned with’ (Legal 500) who ‘thinks ten steps ahead’’ (Chambers) and has “astonishing legal skills”, including the ability “to analyze and sharpen arguments”. She was recognized as one of a select group of "Distinguished Leaders" by New York Law Journal (2021).

Hagit regularly teaches courses on arbitration and advocacy skills, sits as arbitrator and frequently writes and lectures on topics related to international business disputes. She is a member of the ICC Court of International Arbitration Commission, former chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Institute of Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), a current member of the CPR Council, ICC Commission, and a founding Board Member of the New York International Arbitration Center.

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Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Eliza Lehner Senior Associate

New York

Before joining Orrick, Eliza served as a law clerk to Judge Paul J. Watford on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Judge Jesse M. Furman on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. She also worked as a temporary Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. 

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Practice:

  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Emma Roche Associate

Silicon Valley

Emma works on a wide range of civil dispute matters, from issues developing at the cutting edge of the intersections of technology and the law, to those that make up the core of commercial disputes.

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Practice:

  • Infrastructure
  • Private Equity
  • Energy
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Marine Jamain Partner

Paris

Marine Jamain advises infrastructure funds, pension funds and other long-term investors in their acquisition, disposal or restructuring transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors in Europe.

Marine also regularly advises clients in the fast-growing EnergyTech and InfraTech sectors.

Legal 500 EMEA 2023 has ranked Marine in the "Rising Star" category, she is recognized as "building a prominent reputation for transactions within the energy and infrastructure fields".

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • Infrastructure
  • Japan

Naoyuki Fukuda Senior Associate

Tokyo

He mainly works on the development and financing of renewable energy projects as well as general corporate matters. 

Prior to joining Orrick, he worked for an international law firm and a Japanese company where he engaged in M&A, structured finance and renewable energy transactions.

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Practice:

  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • Securities Litigation, Class Actions and Shareholder Derivative Lawsuits
  • Securities Litigation
  • Blockchain & Digital Assets

Sunny Hwang Senior Associate

Los Angeles

A natural advocate, Sunny has first chaired litigation from inception through favorable resolution and successfully briefed and argued dispositive motions and appeals. Sunny is adept at all stages of discovery, comfortable with cross-border disputes, and experienced in both government and internal investigations. Sunny also has particular knowledge regarding the nuances of alternative dispute resolution, including drafting and enforcement of both B2B and B2C arbitration provisions.

Sunny jumpstarted his career by honing his research and writing skills as law clerk to Chief Judge Kimberly J. Mueller of the federal District Court in Sacramento and judicial extern to the late Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit. Before law school, Sunny served for several years as a trade attache for the French government, covering the oenology and viticulture sector.

Sample engagements include:

  • Representing the outside directors of one of the largest pharmaceutical distributors in the United States in multi-district opioid litigation
  • Representing the co-founder of one of the largest ENDS companies in the United States in a government investigation and in multi-district vaping litigation
  • Representing a special committee of the Board of Directors of a Bay Area startup in an internal investigation involving the founder and CEO
  • Representing a Russian rail conglomerate against a former executive in multi-district trade secret litigation
  • Representing a Chinese investor and entrepreneur in a dispute over control of a Delaware corporation
  • Representing one of France's largest multinationals in a dispute over payment of an earnout

Vedika Ahlgren Director of Orrick Labs

Boston

Vedika has devoted her career to improving the delivery of legal services. She leads Orrick Labs, the firm's skunkworks, where custom legal solutions are designed and developed for clients and lawyers of the firm. She is trained and skilled in legal operations and technology and frequently applies Six Sigma principles to projects.

Using her background as an attorney and experience in managing high-impact projects across a variety of legal operational challenges, Vedika is a trusted advisor to our clients and regularly consults on solutions for contract lifecycle management, document and workflow automation, process improvement, knowledge management, data analysis, AI, and other issues that are top of mind for the industry.

Vedika also supports practice innovation efforts across the firm, including strategy and implementation of legal technologies for lawyers, re-engineering practice groups, and driving and influencing change in how firmwide resources execute on service delivery. Her efforts ensure that a commitment to creative problem-solving and human-centered design are leveraged across internal and external solutions alike, positioning the firm’s clients to excel at supporting their businesses, and the firm to remain on the leading-edge of innovation.

In 2020, Vedika was listed to the Changing Lawyer Awards, and in 2023 she was awarded the Graduate of the Last Decade award by her alma mater, Suffolk University Law School.

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Practice:

  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Trials

Francesca Morency Partner

Washington, D.C.

A member of Orrick’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution team, Francesca has extensive experience litigating challenging, high-stakes cases on behalf of her clients, including in some of the most high-profile and impactful wins for the NCAA.  In addition to her trial prowess, she also has conducted internal investigations and has been called upon to assist with regulatory and administrative challenges that her clients face day-to-day.

Francesca has guided the preparation of significant litigation and arbitration matters, from the drafting stage through discovery, depositions, expert and lay witnesses, and through motions and trial.  Having served on a secondment to a Fortune 5 client, she understands well the importance of effective and proactive case management.  Francesca provides empathetic, targeted advice to clients, and she moves matters forward with energy and efficiency.

Prior to working in private practice, Francesca served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Judge Ivan D. Davis, United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia.  In that role, she handled primarily civil discovery matters.