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364975

Practice:

  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • International Trade and Investment
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Banking & Finance
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure
  • Investigations

James Hargrove Partner

Geneva; London

James has a particular specialization in arbitrations relating to energy, commodities, trading, finance and technology (he is particularly active in thought leadership on tech and arbitration issues).

Prior to joining Orrick, James practiced international arbitration and litigation at several international law firms in Geneva and London. James was, among other things, head of the Russia and CIS dispute resolution practice and has deep proficiency in Russia related-disputes and investigations and associated offshore litigation, applications and asset identification, tracing and enforcement.

434971

Practice:

  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Thomas Garvey Senior Associate

New York

Tom provides valuable complex litigation and class action litigation experience, including for clients like Goldman Sachs, UBS O’Connor, Jefferies, and Credit Suisse.

Prior to joining Orrick, he practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and clerked for the Honorable Kevin C. Newsom in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and for the Honorable James B. Loken in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Tom received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

417472

Practice:

  • Banking & Finance
  • Private Credit

Andrew Schmidt Associate

New York

Drew is a managing associate in Orrick’s New York office and a member of the Banking and Finance group.  He advises funds, investment advisors, sponsors and corporate borrowers on the full spectrum of financings, including direct lending transactions, first lien-second lien facilities, superpriority revolvers, recurring revenue loans, refinancings, hybrid debt-equity instruments and other bespoke structures. Drew represents clients from the origination of the deal to repayment, conversion or satisfaction, and he has hands-on experience with enforcement actions and remedies. 

384089

Practice:

  • eDiscovery & Information Governance
  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance

Nick Weaver Senior Employment Career Assoc

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

Nick is a leading eDiscovery attorney offering strategic counsel to clients, many Fortune 100, for nearly the past 15 years. With a comprehensive background in commercial and civil litigation, Nick excels in navigating the intricate landscape of eDiscovery.

As a Senior Discovery Attorney at Orrick, Nick is associated with Orrick’s Chambers USA and Legal 500 ranked Employment Litigation and eDiscovery and Information Governance practice groups. With a current focus on labor and employment litigation matters, Nick provides strategic counsel leveraging his extensive expertise to navigate complex eDiscovery challenges within the employment sector. His work includes litigating Equal Pay Act claims, wrongful termination disputes, allegations of discrimination, and others.

In his role within the eDiscovery and Information Governance practice group, recognized by Chambers USA and Legal 500 for its innovative approach, Nick’s expertise encompasses:

  • Information Governance and Data Privacy (including cross-border data transfers)
  • Emerging Technologies and Communication Methods
  • AI and Machine Learning Application
  • Data Preservation
  • Written Discovery and Negotiation

Nick’s proficiency spans all aspects of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), ensuring seamless data collection, preservation, review and production. He is a seasoned negotiator, adept at drafting and advising on ESI protocols, protective/confidentiality orders, and related stipulations.

Before joining Orrick, Nick developed his litigation expertise at Jones Day, focusing on complex commercial disputes and class action defense. His diverse legal background, combined with engineering and compliance experience, uniquely equips him to deliver innovative, technology-driven solutions.

Nick holds a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law, and a B.A. in Political Science from West Virginia University. He is an active member of the Pennsylvania and West Virginia Bars.
422450

Practice:

  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Trials
  • Technology & Innovation

Ben Au Partner

Santa Monica

Ben’s diverse practice focuses on disputes where an understanding of technology and business is essential. Ben’s civil litigation practice includes trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and funder / founder disputes, through arbitration and trial and on appeal. Ben also has extensive experience in government enforcement actions before the SEC and FTC, as well as federal criminal matters ranging from fraud to FCPA to export controls. He has also conducted numerous internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients. Clients praise Ben’s understanding of the tech ecosystem, responsiveness, and practical, solutions-oriented business judgment.

Ben is committed to impacting his community and maintains an active pro bono practice, including representation and collaboration with the ACLU, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Equality California, on issues ranging from religious freedom, school integration, reproductive rights, privacy from government surveillance, and the right for same-sex couples to marry.

Ben currently serves on the Board of Directors of 826LA, a non-profit organization providing literacy and writing programs for children in underserved areas of Los Angeles. Since 2018, Ben has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He currently co-chairs its White-Collar Crime Committee and is the vice-chair of its Ninth Circuit Amicus Committee. Ben previously served on the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee, representing Northern and Southern California. The judges of the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit appointed Ben to serve as an appellate lawyer representative to the court.

388459

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Corporate Governance
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Capital Markets

Gregg Griner Partner

Boston; Chicago

Gregg represents companies in all stages of their life cycles, from start-ups to public companies, and in a variety of industries including, software, hardware, information services, financial services, financial technology, consumer goods, fashion, media, energy, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. He advises these companies in many aspects of their businesses including financings, corporate governance, employment matters, acquisitions, divestitures, licensing and distribution arrangements, and joint ventures and strategic partnerships.

Gregg also represents venture capital firms in their formation, fundraising efforts and maintenance, as well as in their investments in early and later stage operating companies and in complex leveraged transactions and restructurings. Gregg has worked with a number of leading technology and life science companies in connection with their initial and follow-on public offerings, M&A activities and leading investment banks in their underwriting of public equity and debt offerings.

Gregg has received praise from numerous peer publications, including Best Lawyers (Technology Law, Massachusetts) and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Go-To Lawyer for Healthcare/Life Sciences).

John Ren Counsel

New York

John's experience spans across various industries, including pharmaceuticals and life sciences, technology, gaming, and agriculture. John has litigated high-profile antitrust cases involving a broad range of business practices and legal theories, including monopolization, restraint of trade, intellectual property-related conduct, bundled rebates, predatory pricing, and other exclusionary practices. He also has experience in transactional investigations and challenges, and and played a key role in successfully defending against government challenge to a high-profile merger involving vertical and horizontal theories.

Before joining Orrick, John served at the Federal Trade Commission for several years. During his time at the FTC, John handled all aspects of anticompetitive conduct investigations and enforcement actions, including CIDs, investigational hearings, strategy and legal theory development, pleadings and dispositive motions. 

Roger Davis Partner

San Francisco

Among the attributes that contributed to his Hall of Fame selection were:

  • Recognized and sought out for his ability to apply his unusually extensive and diverse experience to solve problems as they arise and develop new programs or financial structures, and for his expertise and judgment in securities laws and disclosure.
  • Dedicated to helping bring about projects and programs (whether sponsored by public entities, nonprofit corporations or for-profit enterprises) that provide a public benefit and make people’s lives better.
  • Having led the development of the housing and healthcare practices at Orrick, his recent focus has been on governmental transactions, all manner of non-profit corporations, public private partnerships (P3), portfolio sales, securitizations, energy and water efficiency programs, student, senior and workforce housing, pool programs, new financial structures and programs and applications of Public Finance Authority (created in Wisconsin to finance any type of project or program in any state or territory).
  • Some of those new financial structures and programs have included pension obligation bonds, variable rate lease financing, and, more recently, joint powers authority ownership structure (turning private activity projects or projects not generally eligible for tax-exempt financing into tax-exempt governmental purpose bonds; for example, for middle income workforce housing), and energy and other infrastructure as a service (P3, simplifying procurement, off balance sheet).
  • Responsibility for legislation crucial to the scope and operation of California public finance, including California Health Facility Financing Authority, California School Finance Authority, changes to joint power authority law that helped propel California Statewide Communities Development Authority and California Municipal Finance Authority into two of the most prolific issuers in the country, local agency refunding law, authorizations for swaps, investment agreements and other derivative products, creation of security interests, streamlining validation actions, and in several other states including Hawaii and creation of Public Finance Authority in Wisconsin.
  • Chair of Orrick’s Public finance department for several decades through 2020, during which he presided over the growth of the department from one office with 12 lawyers in San Francisco to 10 offices and over 100 lawyers and paralegals around the country, consistently ranked (for more than 2 decades now) as number one bond counsel and disclosure counsel, and within the top four underwriter counsel, for bonds issued by state and local governments throughout the United States. During this period, he also held a number of other leadership positions at Orrick, including several terms on its Executive Committee and on the Management Committee of Orrick’s wholly owned subsidiary, BLX Group, LLC (providing the public finance community with a variety of non-legal services).

In addition to his selection by The Bond Buyer for its Public Finance Hall of Fame, Roger is ranked Band 1 by Chambers, and as Acritas Star Lawyer by Acritas, as Dealmaker of the Year (twice) by American Lawyer, as “best,” “super,” “most honored,” “preeminent” or “lawyer of the year” by several other publications, and declared “the Bond King” in a cover article by California Lawyer.

384184

Practice:

  • Intellectual Property
  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • U.S. International Trade Commission

Katherine Kerrick Managing Associate

Boston

Katie's litigation experience includes reviewing documents, assisting with trial and witness preparation, drafting motions, oppositions, and replies, and preparing expert reports. Katie has also worked with appellate teams, assisting with briefs and preparing for oral argument before the Supreme Court. Her trademark prosecution and transactional experience includes trademark clearance, applications, oppositions, drafting cease and desist letters in both copyright and trademark matters, and representing parties on both sides of Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy disputes.

Katie is a graduate of the Franklin Pierce University of New Hampshire School of Law. While in law school, she externed for the Honorable Joseph Laplante of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. She also participated in the IP & Transactional Clinic and published a paper on trademark registrability for political slogans. She focused her studies on the Intellectual Property and Sports and Entertainment fields, obtaining specialization certificates in Intellectual Property Law, Sports Law, and Entertainment Law. Katie also received the Sports and Entertainment Institute's Entertainment Award in 2020.

432330

Practice:

  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Fintech

Justin Seccombe Senior Associate

Chicago

His experience includes representing clients in high-stakes litigation throughout the country in matters concerning federal and state consumer protection statutes, as well as complex commercial disputes. He further advises and represents clients in regulatory, supervisory, and enforcement matters before federal and state agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and states attorneys general. Justin assists clients through all aspects of litigation, including briefing dispositive and discovery motions, managing large-scale discovery reviews and productions, preparing expert reports, arguing motions in both state and federal court, opposing class certification, and conducting settlement negotiations. With respect to enforcement matters, Justin represents clients through supervisory actions and assists them with the PARR (Potential Action and Request for Response) and NORA (Notice and Opportunity to Respond and Advise) process, crafting responses and working with regulators to reach favorable outcomes.

Prior to joining Orrick, Justin was an associate at Buckley LLP. Before practicing law, Justin worked with sports agents for some of the most successful players in the National Football League, including league MVPs, Super Bowl winners, and numerous rookies of the year.

283617

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Patents
  • Intellectual Property
  • Patent & Intellectual Property Rights Appeals

Travis Jensen Partner

Silicon Valley

Able to quickly understand complex technology in the litigation context, Travis is particularly well-suited to resolve patent disputes involving semiconductor processes and circuits such as NAND flash memory, microcontrollers, wireless payment technologies, and related areas. After earning advanced degrees in electrical engineering, and before embarking on his legal career, Travis worked at Intel Corp. and co-founded a fabless semiconductor design company.

Travis has used his distinctive skillset to litigate technically complex patent cases to verdict, and obtain favorable settlements for several of the world’s leading technology companies such as Microchip, Synopsys, AT&T, and SanDisk. Travis has successfully first chaired patent and non-patent jury cases to verdict in federal and state court, including while on secondment to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.  Travis has handled numerous appeals before the Federal Circuit, and, as a registered patent attorney, served as lead and back-up counsel in post-grant proceedings (inter partes review and ex parte reexamination) at the PTO.

425205

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Blockchain & Digital Assets

James Wigginton Of Counsel

Sacramento; Silicon Valley

Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies have caused business leaders to rethink the way we own, govern and share the benefits of enterprise. James advises entrepreneurs and investors as they pioneer new, more inclusive operating models in professional sports, finance, social media, gaming, agriculture and other industries.

To do this, James draws from two complementary sources of experience. The first is his practice assisting public companies, private equity funds and venture capitalists with registered and unregistered securities offerings; high-stakes M&A; corporate governance; and Exchange Act reporting. The second is his experience advising clients outside the Wall Street and Silicon Valley mainstream, including cooperatives, limited cooperative associations and nonprofit corporations. By combining these two worlds, James is able to offer unexpected legal solutions to blockchain-based companies as they seek venture financing, design and issue tokens, and select business entities for DAOs.

James also appreciates the inherently global reach of blockchain and cryptocurrency. After law school, he spent two years clerking for the US Court of International Trade in New York City. Before that, James lived for two years in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Dnipro, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Mariupol. James is fluent in Russian and maintains ties with his friends in the war zone.