Orrick Advises Quit Genius on $11 Million Series A Financing
| March.23.2020
Orrick has advised Quit Genius, a developer of personalized digital therapeutics for addictions, on its $11 million Series A financing round.
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Orrick Advised Toyota Motor on $400 Million Investment in Pony.ai
| March.19.2020
Orrick has advised Toyota Motor on its $400 million investment in autonomous driving company Pony.ai’s Series C round.
Orrick Advises Oisín Biotechnologies on Financing
| March.02.2020
Orrick has advised Seattle-based biotechnology company Oisín Biotechnologies on its $3 million pre-seed SAFE funding round.
Orrick Advises Graphcore on $150 Million Series D2 Extension Financing With a $1.95B Valuation
| February.26.2020
Orrick has advised AI processor company Graphcore on its $150 million Series D2 extension financing. This brings the total investment in Graphcore to ...
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.
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.
Insights
SEC Offers Guidance – How COVID-19 Impacts Conducting the Annual Meeting
by Bill Hughes and Karen Dempsey | March.23.2020
On March 13, 2020, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance for conducting annual meetings in light of concerns caused by ...
Privacy in the Time of Coronavirus
by Keily Blair, James Lloyd and Lewis Brady | March.20.2020
Over the past few days, commentators and, in some cases, government ministers have stated that the GDPR (and by association the Data Protection Act ...
OLNS#4 – Corporate Venture Capital
| March.09.2020
This guide serves to share best practices for corporates and start-ups participating in the Corporate Venture Capital ecosystem.
Companies Hit By Coronavirus Offered SEC Filing Relief
by Stephen Ashley, Brett Cooper, Karen Dempsey, Niki Fang and Bill Hughes | March.06.2020
On March 4, 2020, the SEC announced conditional regulatory relief to public companies impacted by coronavirus (COVID-19).
California Attorney General Releases Updated Drafts of Proposed CCPA Regulations
by Heather Egan Sussman, Emily S. Tabatabai, Matthew E.S. Coleman, Sulina Gabale, Kyle Kessler, Nicholas Farnsworth, Colleen B. Hespeler, Maria Rouvalis and David Williams | February.13.2020
On February 7 and again on February 10, 2020, the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released an updated draft of proposed regulations ...
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.
News
Orrick Adds Top-Tier Global Data Privacy Adviser in California
| March.02.2020
Shannon Yavorsky, a leading authority on U.S. and European data privacy issues, has joined Orrick as a partner in our San Francisco office.
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.
Orrick Ranks #3 for Venture Capital for the 2nd Year
| February.18.2020
With nearly $19 billion in venture capital raised for clients in 2019, Orrick ranks as the #3 venture capital law firm worldwide in Pitchbook’s 2019 ...
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