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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Restructuring
  • Banking & Finance
  • Structured Finance
  • Conformité & Règlementation
  • Asset‐Backed Securities

Preetha Gist Partner

Washington, D.C.

Banks and other capital market financial service providers, particularly those active in the structured finance markets, face a challenging and ever-changing regulatory environment. Preetha has deep structured/bankruptcy and bank regulatory experience. She is recognized and highly regarded in the industry as a true sale/non-consolidation lawyer and participates in industry-wide efforts to respond to regulatory changes in that area. Preetha also has highly valued knowledge in regulatory financial accounting issues, which affect the structuring of structured transactions.

Preetha is active in the Structured Finance Association and currently serves as the co-chair of the Structured Finance Association's Derivatives in Securitization Task Force. She regularly participates in industry advocacy efforts partnering with in-house government relations departments to educate and advise lawmakers on the real-world impacts of proposed legislative initiatives. She is also a thought leader and speaks frequently on regulatory issues relevant to the securitization industry.

Prior to joining the firm, Preetha was a partner in Chapman and Cutler's Asset Securitization Department. Before that, Preetha served as a general counsel for Capital Markets at a U.S. bank and prior to that, as in-house counsel in other financial institutions, supporting debt capital markets, loan capital markets, asset securitization and derivatives business units. She began her career as an associate at Orrick.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Structured Finance
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Residential Mortgage‐Backed Securities
  • Fintech

Dora Mao Senior Counsel

San Francisco

In addition, she advises financial services clients regularly in connection with Dodd-Frank Act compliance, Regulation AB and other securities law and regulatory compliance matters, warehouse facilities, purchase and sale agreements and template development, servicing rights and repurchase facilities.  She has also advised nonprofits in connection with financing affordable housing and economic development.

In 2012, she was seconded part-time to a finance company client, where she assisted in drafting and implementing compliance policies and procedures and related training materials.

Dora is also experienced in a broad range of securities and commercial transactions, including private and public offerings of equity and debt, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial loan origination. She has represented both issuers and investors in a wide variety of equity and debt issuances.    

Dora was Partner-in-Charge of the San Francisco office of the firm from 2000 through 2003 and serves on the firm’s Opinion Committee and Professional Development Committee.   She served on the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Northern California from 2004 through 2012 and the Board of Trustees of San Francisco University High School from 2007 through 2014.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation
  • Technology Transactions
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Cross Border Employment Law Issues
  • Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation
  • Pay Equity

Dr. André Zimmermann, LL.M. Partner

Dusseldorf; Munich

André advises companies of all stages, pre-IPO startups, scaleups, unicorns and international corporations on a wide range of matters, having handled everything from day-to-day practical advice tailored to his clients’ needs, to complex multi-jurisdictional transactions from strategic planning through post-merger integration. Having long-standing experience in negotiating with works councils and unions in restructuring measures of all kind, a special focus of André's practice is on restructurings and headcount reductions.

He has advised on the employment law aspects in over 300 M&A transactions and financing rounds across various industries. Transactional advice includes employment law advice in complex, international technology transactions, M&A projects as well as private equity and venture capital investments, from due diligence to post-closing integration.

André has thorough knowledge of and a genuine passion for the tech industry. Over the last years, André has become the go-to-advisor of several Bay Area tech-companies, leaders in their market and high-growth tech companies. Most recently, he has advised leading global technology companies such as GoPro, Pinterest, GitHub, Nvidia, Sabre, Snap and Splunk on various employment matters.

André has received several awards for his work, inter alia:

  • Germany's leading lawyer ranking JUVE recognizes André as "frequently recommended" employment law expert since 2017;
  • Best Lawyers and Handelsblatt have listed André as one of Germany's best lawyers in employment law since 2020;
  • Germany's leading business weekly WirtschaftsWoche ranked André as one of the top employment lawyers in Germany in 2019;
  • IEL Elite, an in-house guide to the world’s leading employment and labour teams, recognized André as a "Key Lawyer" in 2022.

Clients recommend André to JUVE as “straight shooter" and "always refreshingly honest". Our clients praise his "creative and efficient style of working" and "a very practical and efficient style of providing advice", referring to him as "extremely responsive and always accessible" and as "an excellent advocate in court hearings". Clients appreciate André's "clear, sound and pragmatic real-world advice" and his "in-depth knowledge of the tech employment world".

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology Companies Group

Stefan Riedl Senior Associate

Munich

Prior to joining Orrick, Stefan worked in another international law firm in Munich as well as in Charlotte, NC.

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Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity

Maria Teodorescu Associate

Munich

She acts on corporate transactions including leveraged buy-outs, management buy-outs, minority participations and expansion or growth financings as well as M&A transactions, often with cross-border aspects.

Before joining Orrick, she had been an associate in the private equity group of a U.S. headquartered law firm. As part of her legal clerkship, Maria worked for another U.S. law firm and a leading German law firm, among others.

Aaliya Kapadia Associate

Santa Monica

Aaliya's practice focuses on general corporate counseling and venture capital financings. She represents innovative startups in a wide variety of industries and venture capital firms in their investments in technology companies.

Prior to her career in corporate law, Aaliya worked in the public interest field as a paralegal at a deportation defense and asylum relief immigration law firm.

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity

Alexis Marraud des Grottes Partner

Paris

Recommandé par les guides Chambers France  et Legal 500 EMEA en Fusions-Acquisitions, Alexis conseille d’importants groupes et sociétés français et internationaux, cotés ou non cotés, des fonds de private equity, des hedge funds, et des dirigeants, des conseils d’administration et des familles.

Il conseille ainsi notamment sur des investissements et désinvestissements, des émissions de titres, des opérations complexes et transfrontalières, des négociations stratégiques et des contentieux sensibles. Il est "l’un des meilleurs intervenants sur le marché » (Legal 500). Il est aussi reconnu pour son expertise sur les enjeux liés à la gouvernance, aux restructurations, ainsi que sur les problématiques de conflits et d'activisme.

Alexis est intervenu sur certains dossiers emblématiques en France, et a conseillé notamment SFL et son management dans la fusion transfrontalière avec Colonial, Herige dans la cession de ses activités de négoce à Samse, BAE Systems dans l'acquisition d'Eurostep, les fonds Alcentra et Fidera dans leur investissement dans Pierre & Vacances, Air France-KLM dans ses relations avec KLM et l’Etat Néerlandais, Veolia dans l’acquisition de Suez, LVMH dans l’acquisition de Tiffany, Oeneo dans le cadre de l'OPAS de son actionnaire de contrôle, Naturex dans le cadre de l’OPA de Givaudan, le conseil d’administration de Zodiac à l’occasion de son rapprochement avec Safran, Euro Disney à raison de l’OPA de The Walt Disney Company, L’Oréal lors du rachat de ses propres actions (8% de son capital) auprès de Nestlé et la cession de sa participation dans Galderma, Metrovacesa sur la cession de sa participation au capital de Gecina ou encore le Club Méditerranée dans le cadre de l'OPA du conglomérat chinois Fosun.

Alexis Marraud des Grottes intervient également sur des dossiers relatifs à des émissions de jetons et de crypto-monnaies ou de crypto-actifs, y compris pour structurer et mettre en place des entités émettrices et les services associés.

Alexis est un acteur de premier plan, reconnu pour ses publications, conférences et formations sur le droit boursier, la gouvernance et les fusions-acquisitions. Il intervient régulièrement à l'EM Lyon et à l'Université Paris Dauphine. Il a été membre de plusieurs groupes de travail de place dont le groupe de travail sur l'offre au public du haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris. L’Autorité des marchés financiers - AMF l’a invité à devenir membre de sa Commission Consultative Emetteurs en tant que spécialiste des questions de droit boursier.

Practice:

  • International Trade and Investment
  • FCPA & Anti–Corruption
  • Loi Anti blanchiment d'argent et secret bancaire
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Responsible Business
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Jeanine P. McGuinness Partner

Washington, D.C.

Jeanine’s clients include major U.S. and foreign financial institutions, and pharmaceutical, technology, defense, space, telecommunications, energy, and infrastructure companies, among others.

Examples of Jeanine’s experience include:

  • Represents clients in preparing voluntary self-disclosures, administrative subpoena responses and license applications, and represents companies in connection with enforcement actions by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
  • Provides policy and compliance advice to clients affected by frequent changes in U.S. sanctions, including sanctions targeting Iran, Cuba, and Russia/Ukraine
  • Assists foreign purchasers of U.S. companies in national security reviews, including navigating the CFIUS process, through preparation of notices, meetings with CFIUS member agencies, advising on follow-on investigations, and negotiating and implementing mitigation agreements
  • Assists clients in developing and updating economic sanctions, anti-money laundering, and anti-corruption compliance policies and procedures
  • Represents financial institutions in connection with U.S. federal and state enforcement actions regarding compliance with U.S. anti-money laundering laws and regulations
  • Represents lenders, underwriters, borrowers, and issuers in international lending and capital markets transactions regarding sanctions, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering issues
  • Advises a U.S. trade association and its member banks regarding U.S. sanctions, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering issues in lending transactions, and prepares guidance for the industry on these matters
  • Advises financial institutions on the application of U.S. anti-money laundering regulations, with specific emphasis on customer identification program (CIP)/know your customer (KYC)/customer due diligence (CDD) requirements and suspicious activity reporting requirements
  • Regularly advises private equity and hedge funds regarding compliance with U.S. anti-money laundering and sanctions laws and regulations, including with respect to appropriate provisions in subscription materials and enhanced due diligence on high-risk investors
  • Advises clients regarding sanctions-related inquiries from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and state agencies implementing divestment laws and assists clients in preparing sanctions-related disclosure for inclusion in annual reports to the SEC

Jeanine is ranked in both the CFIUS Experts and Export Controls & Economic Sanctions categories by Chambers USA in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. An interviewee had this to say of their experience working with Jeanine, “I am continuously impressed by her extensive knowledge, excellent communication skills and her ability to wrap her subject matter expertise around the details of the matter and then drive conclusions or recommendations for next steps."

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Practice:

  • Fiscalité
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity

Cécile Mariotti Partner

Paris

Elle possède une experience particulière en fiscalité française et internationale et conseille régulièrement sur des opérations complexes de fusions-acquisitions, de réorganisations, ainsi que sur des opérations de marchés de capitaux et de financement.

Cécile accompagne des groupes de sociétés français et multinationaux issus de divers secteurs, publics et privés, des institutions financières et des fonds d'investissement.

Cécile représente les clients dans leurs relations avec les autorités fiscales dans un large éventail de situations, y compris les demandes de rescrit et les contentieux fiscaux. Elle intervient également dans la structuration et la mise en place de plans d'actions pour les salariés et de management packages.

Cécile enseigne un séminaire sur les aspects fiscaux des LBOs dans le cadre du Master de Fiscalité internationale de l'Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas et d'HEC. Elle est membre de l'International Fiscal Association (IFA), ainsi que de l'Institut des Avocats Conseils Fiscaux (IACF), dont elle a été membre du Comité Fiscalité des Entreprises jusqu'en octobre 2020. Elle est membre du Comité Fiscal de France Invest. Elle a également été nommée rapporteur pour la France au congrès de l’IFA à Lisbonne en 2025.

Par ailleurs, Cécile est membre du Board de l’Alliance pour le financement de la Femtech en France. Elle maintient une pratique Tech pro bono active et s’investit fortement dans des initiatives et réseaux visant à soutenir le succès à long terme des femmes leaders dans le monde des affaires. Elle a notamment été co-leader du Comité Women Enriching Business à Paris chez Latham & Watkins.

Avant de rejoindre Orrick, elle a exercé pendant quatre ans au sein de l’équipe fiscale de Latham & Watkins, après avoir passé sept ans dans l’équipe fiscale de Cleary Gottlieb, aux bureaux de Paris et de New York.

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Real Estate
  • Capital Markets

Patrick Tardivy Partner

Paris

Avocat spécialisé en fusions-acquisitions et en private equity, Patrick conseille des entreprises et des investisseurs français et internationaux sur tous les aspects du droit des sociétés dans le cadre d'acquisitions, de cessions, de fusions, de réorganisations, y compris les découpages d'activités et les alliances stratégiques.

Patrick est particulièrement actif dans les domaines de l'énergie et des infrastructures ainsi que dans les secteurs technologiques, travaillant aux côtés de fonds d'investissement, de groupes français et étrangers, sur des transactions nationales et transfrontalières. Patrick a également une expérience significative dans les projets de fusions-acquisitions, en particulier dans le secteur de l'immobilier où il intervient en tant que conseil principal sur des transactions de premier plan.

Reconnu par les principaux guides de classement internationaux, Patrick est décrit par ses clients comme « [...] très intelligent et ayant une approche constructive et une connaissance approfondie du droit », « très orienté vers les affaires avec une forte sensibilité commerciale » et « toujours capable de trouver des solutions ». (Chambers Global 2025 - Corporate/M&A : High-end Capability).

Patrick était auparavant co-président de la pratique mondiale d'Orrick en matière de fusions et acquisitions et de capital-investissement.

Avant de rejoindre Orrick en 2016, Patrick était associé dans un cabinet d'avocats du Magic Circle.