Adam Ross Partner, Banking & Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
He represents venture-backed companies, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, public companies, and lenders, in a wide variety of financing transactions, across the capital structure and in a range of industries. He has significant experience advising on venture debt transactions, acquisition financings, recapitalizations and restructurings.
Sacramento
Nick represents a diverse range of stakeholders throughout the capital structure in complex restructuring scenarios. His practice encompasses representing institutional creditors, financial institutions, funds, direct lenders, and strategic investors in bankruptcy proceedings, out-of-court workouts, and distressed asset acquisitions. He has significant experience with debtor-in-possession financing, pre-packaged Chapter 11 proceedings, Section 363 sales, and contested bankruptcy litigation matters.
Nick has developed particular expertise in distressed M&A transactions across multiple industries, including energy and infrastructure, life sciences, cryptocurrency, and retail sectors. He regularly works with clients to structure and execute credit-bid acquisitions, private sales, and strategic investments in distressed companies. His cross-practice approach allows him to collaborate effectively with Orrick’s M&A, Banking & Finance, and Energy & Infrastructure teams to deliver comprehensive solutions to complex distressed situations.
Beyond traditional restructuring work, Nick’s experience extends to non-distressed transactions, including real estate purchases and syndicated loan refinancing. He brings a strategic and detail-oriented approach to each matter, working collaboratively with clients to navigate challenging financial circumstances and achieve business objectives.
Seattle
Les is a Partner in the Public Finance practice group in Orrick’s Seattle office. He has served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel on public and privately placed tax-exempt and taxable debt issued by airports and ports, mass transit agencies, electric and water utilities, industrial development agencies and bond banks, higher education institutions and health care facilities. He has experience in advising clients in such financings in several states and U.S. territories, including Alaska, California, Guam, Nevada, New York, Oregon and Washington.
During the course of his practice, Les has worked on various types of financing structures, including standard general obligation and revenue bond financings, bond and grant anticipation financings, master trust indenture financings, conduit financings, pooled financings, variable rate bonds and current and advance refundings.
Prior to joining Orrick, Les was an associate in the Capital Markets practice group at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York, where he represented major foreign and domestic banks and boutique financial institutions as issuers, depositors, loan sellers, underwriters, initial purchasers and placement agents in connection with approximately $20 billion of public and private offerings of commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized loan obligations.
Los Angeles
Ramon has a wide range of experience in financings involving Native American tribes and tribal entities, including financings for new casino construction projects and casino expansions, and serving as lead counsel for some of the largest tribal financings on the West Coast.
New York
Marc represents clients in federal and state court at the trial and appellate levels with a particular focus on class actions, multi-district litigation, and mass joinders. Among Marc’s current engagements, he represents Johns Hopkins University and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America in over a dozen class actions arising out of a data breach of the MOVEit file transfer software; University of Washington in a pandemic-related class action seeking refunds of tuition and fees on behalf of students; ZoomInfo Technologies LLC in a data privacy class action alleging unlawful disclosure of personal information under federal and state laws; Goldman Sachs in a pay and promotion gender discrimination class action; NCAA in concussion and injury-related cases throughout the country; Marathon Oil Corporation in nationwide climate change litigation; and multiple foreign defendants in a class action arising out of allegedly defective drywall.
Recently, Marc successfully prevailed at trial before the Delaware Chancery Court and earned Litigator of the Week recognition by Law.com for defeating claims by Netflix star Julia Haart that she owns half the shares of Elite World Group; secured dismissal of a dozen class actions against the University of California and Santa Clara University brought by students seeking refunds of tuition and fees due to COVID-driven transition to remote instruction; and defeated class certification and secured affirmance on appeal by the Ninth Circuit in an employment discrimination class action against Microsoft.
Marc served as a law clerk to Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to joining Orrick, Marc worked as an appellate and post-conviction attorney for the Equal Justice Initiative. In that capacity, he engaged in trial level and appellate representation of clients in both state and federal court, including two cases that were briefed and argued before the United States Supreme Court.
New York
Paris
Margot intervient en matière de fiscalité transactionnelle auprès de groupes français et internationaux ainsi que de fonds de private equity. Elle conseille les entreprises dans le cadre de leur développement en France et à l’international, d'opérations de fusions-acquisitions, de restructurations et de refinancement. Elle accompagne également les entreprises dans le cadre de contrôles fiscaux et de contentieux.
D’autre part, Margot conseille les particuliers dans la gestion et dans la transmission de leur patrimoine.
Avant de rejoindre Orrick, Margot Janot a travaillé au sein de cabinets internationaux tels que Dentons, Pwc Société d’avocats et Fidal. Elle a également travaillé au sein de la société foncière Klépierre et à la section P20 du Parquet du TGI de Paris.
Washington, D.C.
Described by Chambers USA as having “an in-depth understanding of securities regulations” and with clients commenting that “his knowledge base is superior,” Mike has extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters in consumer asset-backed securitization transactions. Mike has one of the top credit card securitization practices in the market and he also advises on a broad range of ABS, including transactions supported by consumer loans, motor vehicle loans and leases, dealer floorplan receivables, student loans, and residential and commercial mortgages.
Mike serves as counsel to financial institutions in capital markets and debt financing transactions and regularly advises clients on application of the federal securities laws and Dodd-Frank implementing regulations in the structured finance market.
Mike has served as outside counsel to the Structured Finance Association, and previously to the American Securitization Forum (ASF). He has drafted industry comment letters on Regulation AB (2004), Regulation AB2 (2010/2011), the Prohibition on Material Conflicts of Interest (2012), and Cybersecurity Risk and Incident Disclosure Rules (2022). Mike has also served as Chair of the Structured Finance Association's Revolving Master Trust Working Group in connection with its industry advocacy on Risk Retention.
Mike joined Orrick in 1997 and was a partner in Orrick’s Structured Finance Group until 2012. Prior to rejoining the firm in 2021, Mike was a partner in Chapman and Cutler’s Asset Securitization Department. He has also served as a Special Counsel with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Office of the Chief Counsel for the Division of Corporation Finance. At the SEC, Mike had extensive involvement in oversight of the structured finance market and worked on a proposal—a precursor to Regulation AB—to develop disclosure and reporting guidelines for asset-backed issuers.
Houston
Catalina advises borrowers and lenders in debt financings for M&A, PE and direct lending transactions.
Prior to joining Orrick, Catalina was a Debt Finance Associate at Kirkland & Ellis, where she primarily advised borrowers on private equity, financing transactions and debt restructurings in the Energy Sector.
New York
Matthew is a senior associate in Orrick's New York office and a member of the Banking and Finance Group. He advises major financial institutions, public and privately owned companies, sponsors and private credit funds in effectively assessing legal risks in complex secured and unsecured commercial finance transactions. His experience extends to a wide variety of finance transactions, including broadly syndicated loans, asset-based financings, private equity acquisition financings, debt restructurings, dividend recapitalizations and project financings. Matthew also supports other practice groups, including the Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity group, the Technology Companies Group and the Energy and Infrastructure group, on various financing matters for clients.
Portland
Steven’s practice includes representing local and state government issuers, tribal governments, eligible borrowers and underwriters in connection with general obligation bond financings, revenue bond financings and lease financings. Steven serves as bond counsel to the Oregon Department of Transportation, Oregon Housing and Community Services, the Oregon Facilities Authority and a number of Oregon municipalities.
Prior to joining Orrick, Steven worked in publishing in various roles including as a business publication editor, business-focused journalist and news reporter covering trends in various industries as well as municipal and state government, law enforcement and state and federal court matters.
Steven volunteers as a coach for the nationally-recognized We The People program, working with Portland high school students to explore historical and contemporary Constitutional issues in a team competition format sponsored by the Center for Civic Education and Oregon’s Classroom Law Project.
New York
Kevin’s experience includes various general obligation and revenue bond financings, including those relating to transportation, multi-family housing, higher education, public power, sewer and water, and hospitals.
He has extensive knowledge and experience with federal securities laws issues in public finance, including both initial and continuing disclosure issues, material events disclosure, public statements liability, public offerings and private placements and other matters.
Kevin is a frequent speaker at conferences, seminars and webinars given by trade and professional organizations within the public finance industry.
Prior to entering private practice, Kevin was an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Municipal Finance Division of the New York City Law Department.