Orrick Advises Cortexyme on $125 Million Private Placement
| February.11.2020
Orrick has advised San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company Cortexyme (Nasdaq: CRTX) on its $125 million private placement of common stock.
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Orrick Advises Inato on Series A Financing
| February.04.2020
Orrick has advised Paris-based startup Inato on its $14 million Series A financing round.
Orrick Advises AppSheet on Acquisition by Google
| January.15.2020
Orrick has advised Seattle-based AppSheet, a no-code enterprise app development platform, on its acquisition by Google. The acquisition will enable ...
Orrick Advises Perfect Day on $140 Million Series C Round
| December.18.2019
Orrick has advised California-based food-tech startup Perfect Day on its $140 million Series C financing round.
Orrick Advises New Unicorn Dataiku on Secondary Round
| December.09.2019
Orrick has advised enterprise AI company Dataiku on CapitalG’s, formerly Google Capital, acquisition of Dataiku secondary market shares from Serena ...
Orrick Appellate and Employment Teams Prevail Again for Twitter in Closely-Watched Gender Discrimination Case
| December.04.2019
A California appellate court today rejected an effort to revive class gender discrimination claims against Twitter.
Orrick Advises Sprints Capital in New Unicorn Vinted’s Series E
| December.03.2019
Orrick’s London tech companies team has advised Sprints Capital on its investment in Vinted’s €128 million Series E financing round.
Orrick Advises Vostok Emerging Finance on Konfio’s $100 Million Series D
| December.03.2019
Orrick has advised Vostok Emerging Finance on its investment in Konfio’s $100 million Series D financing round.
Orrick Advises Turn/River Capital on ASCI Investment
| November.15.2019
Orrick has advised Turn/River Capital, a technology-focused growth equity firm, on its investment in IT automation software provider Advanced Systems ...
Orrick Advises Convoy on $400 Million Series D Financing Round
| November.13.2019
Orrick has advised Convoy, the first nationwide digital freight network, on its $400 million Series D financing round.
Insights
15 Big Legal Mistakes Made By Startups
| February.03.2020
Orrick’s Lynne Hermle and Ellen Ehrenpreis co-authored an article in Forbes with Orrick alum Richard Harroch.
Annual Reporting Requirements for Incentive Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
by Christine McCarthy, Michael Y. Yang and Katherine K. Hogan | January.17.2020
Annual Information Statements and IRS Returns
The CCPA Is in Effect and It Is Not Too Late to Get Started in 2020
by Heather Egan Sussman, Emily S. Tabatabai, Nicholas Farnsworth and Maria Rouvalis | January.02.2020
Happy New Year! At long last, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) went into effect yesterday, January 1, 2020. For those who have ...
Startup Financing: Five Key Funding Options for Your Company
by Mike Sullivan | December.23.2019
Orrick’s Mike Sullivan co-authored an article in Forbes with Richard Harroch discussing five options for obtaining startup funding.
Taking Security Over Cryptoassets
by Jacqui Hatfield and Rebecca Kellner | December.17.2019
Orrick’s Jacqui Hatfield and Rebecca Kellner co-authored an article in Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law about the nature of cryptoassets.
10 Key Lessons for Startup CEOs and Founders
by Mitchell Zuklie | December.04.2019
Orrick’s Mitch Zuklie co-authored an article with Richard Harroch, Managing Director and Global Head of M&A at VantagePoint Capital Partners, and ...
Employment Issues for Startups
| November.27.2019
Orrick partners discuss common questions that startup companies have about labor & employment issues involved in hiring, separations and ...
Venture Capital Term Sheets
| November.19.2019
Orrick lawyers discuss everything you need to know about venture capital term sheets, including the economics, control rights and pitfalls to avoid.
What Can Entrepreneurs Learn From The World’s Leading Salmon Conservationist?
by Mitchell Zuklie | November.12.2019
In this Business Insider opinion, Mitch Zuklie shares what he’s learned about management from Guido Rahr, CEO of the Wild Salmon Center.
California Governor Signs CCPA and Breach Notification Statute Amendments into Law
by Heather Egan Sussman, Emily S. Tabatabai, David Curtis, Nicholas Farnsworth and Maria Rouvalis | October.18.2019
With the January 1, 2020 effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) rapidly approaching, all eyes have been on the California ...
Professor’s Prosecution Shows Importance of Disclosing All Foreign Ties
by Mona S. Amer and Adrienne Knecht Tierney | October.17.2019
In August 2019, federal prosecutors indicted Feng Tao, a Chinese scientist conducting research at the University of Kansas, on fraud charges. The ...
No Consent, No Cookie! CJEU Issues Far-Reaching Decision on Cookie Consent
by Dr. Christian Schröder and Candice O'Brien | October.04.2019
In its long-awaited judgment, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) decided the data protection requirements for obtaining consent when using cookies. ...
HMRC’s New Approach to Cryptoassets – Tax First, Define Later
by Peter Connors, Jonathan Rosen and Bridget Winters | November.01.2019
The UK tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has taken a further step towards tackling perceived tax avoidance in transactions ...
Self-Driving Gold Mines? Monetizing Big Data From Autonomous Vehicles and the Impact of Regulation
by Glynna Christian, Aravind Swaminathan and Nicholas Farnsworth | September.19.2019
Orrick’s Glynna Christian, Aravind Swaminathan and Nick Farnsworth co-authored an article in The Recorder discussing how autonomous vehicle companies ...
News
Orrick Launches Cyber & Data Privacy Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement Practice in London With Top Team From PwC
| January.27.2020
Orrick today announced that Keily Blair and James Lloyd have joined the firm’s London office as partners.
Law360 Features Orrick’s 2019 Employment Practice Group of the Year
| January.16.2020
Law360 profiled our Employment Practice as one of the publication’s 2019 Employment Practice Groups of the Year, coming on the heels of major wins.
FT Names Orrick Among North America’s Most Innovative Law Firms Overall and for Legal Expertise
| December.10.2019
After being named the Financial Times’ most innovative law firm in North America for the past three years, Orrick is the runner-up firm for 2019. In ...
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