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Ben Hayes Project Attorney

Washington, D.C.

Ben works with litigation attorneys and third party vendors to manage the review and production of documents relevant to investigations and litigation. This work includes using early case assessment technology to analyze, categorize and cull data. He also manages teams of skilled professionals performing document review, redaction, analysis, production and drafting privilege logs.

Ben has coordinated matters involving large-scale international data collections, reviews, and productions to multiple parties and governmental institutions. Ben is Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA), and holds a J.D. from the University of Oregon and an LL.M. in International Trade and Commercial Law from Durham University in the U.K. (with distinction).
464060

Practice:

  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Propriété intellectuelle
  • Technology & Innovation

Abigail Dagher Associate

Orange County

Abigail’s background in marketing and business development gives her a practical understanding of how brands grow and operate, helping her offer trademark advice that supports her clients’ business goals. She assists with counseling clients on managing domestic and international trademark and copyright portfolios, guiding them through all stages from trademark selection, searching, prosecution, and registration to brand enforcement and protection. Her work also includes handling takedown procedures and resolving domain name disputes. In addition to her prosecution practice, Abigail also has experience with opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Abigail previously worked with The Coca-Cola Company, AT&T, the Georgia State-wide Business Court, and Emory University’s Office of Ethics and Compliance, where she developed her skills and grew her passion for global trademark and copyright law while assisting with legal matters in international marketing, emerging technology, and privacy.

740

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Blockchain & Digital Assets
  • Japan
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Ben Spitz Counsel

Tokyo

Ben works with innovative technology companies and the investors who back them, focusing on those that operate in the blockchain, web3, NFT, and cryptocurrency sectors or have a relationship to Japan.

Drawing from his in-house experience at a global cryptocurrency exchange, Ben has a keen understanding of the challenges faced by high-growth companies developing transformative technologies and products in a regulated industry. He has also gained insight into both the Silicon Valley and Japanese tech and venture ecosystems, having previously worked in the Palo Alto office of another major law firm before practicing in Japan.

 

Not admitted in Japan.

422678

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group

Daniel Garber Managing Associate

Santa Monica

Daniel represents high-growth technology companies throughout their lifecycles.

Daniel's practice focuses on general corporate counseling and venture capital financings. He represents innovative startups in a wide variety of industries, including e-commerce, software, and artificial intelligence. He also represents investors and venture capital firms in their investments in technology companies.

740

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure

Genet Berhane Innovation Attorney Energy and Infrastructure

New York

As an innovation attorney, Genet leverages her transactional experience and process insights to help Orrick attorneys optimize client service delivery. Genet supports firm efforts to increase efficiencies across practice groups, connecting Orrick attorneys with teams, tools and resources to support their work.

This is Orrick’s ninth consecutive year ranked among the top 10 firms for innovation by Financial Times – eight of them in the top three.

Genet’s practice previously focused on a variety of energy transactions as a managing associate in the firm's Energy & Infrastructure group. She has also worked as Senior Counsel at Clearway Energy and as a Legal Manager at Acumen, a non-profit global venture fund.

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Offshore Wind
  • Nuclear
  • Infrastructure
  • Wind Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Power
  • UK

Albert Yu Partner

Londres

Albert represents a wide range of clients, working with project sponsors, lenders, export credit agencies and funds on market-leading energy and infrastructure projects in Europe and Asia.

Prior to joining Orrick, Albert was a Managing Associate at a Magic Circle firm. Albert has also worked in-house for a large global mining company.

Practice:

  • Technology Transactions
  • Technology Companies Group

Mary Bates Project Attorney

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

Mary is a member of the Orrick Analytics Group. She is an experienced corporate lawyer focused on transactional matters and strategic counsel to leading supply chain, distribution, and technology companies. She handles corporate issues typically overseen by in-house counsel, with an ardent awareness of in-house counsel’s need to receive exceptional work in an expeditious manner. She provides tactical guidance on managing the complete life cycle of corporate, supply chain, and technology agreements.

Rachel Beckman Project Attorney

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

Rachel works with litigation attorneys and third party vendors to manage the review and production of documents relevant to investigations and litigation. This work includes using early case assessment technology to analyze, categorize and cull data. She also manages teams of skilled professionals performing document review, redaction, analysis, production and drafting privilege logs. Rachel assists the litigation team to prepare for trial, including drafting deposition summaries, factual memoranda and exhibit charts.

Prior to joining Orrick, Rachel was an associate at a premier litigation and labor boutique law firm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she managed multiple complex litigation e-discovery projects.

Additionally, Rachel serves as the District 2000 President of GBU Life, a Pennsylvania nonprofit, member-owned, fraternal benefit society that strives to give back to its members, community, and charitable causes.

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Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Fintech

Ameerah Banks Cooper Associate

Santa Monica

Prior to joining Orrick, Ameerah was an associate at Buckley LLP. Prior to Buckley, she was an Assistant Vice President for a national consumer financial services company, where she maintained compliance with all applicable Consumer Finance Protection Board (CFPB) and other federal and state regulatory guidelines.

Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Alexandra Bursak Senior Associate

New York

Alex's litigation work spans a range of subject areas, from copyright and patent law to questions of statutory interpretation and constitutional law. She has been the lead drafter of briefs and motions in federal and state courts of appeals and contributed to teams working in the U.S. Supreme Court and state and federal courts of all levels.

Alex maintains an active pro bono practice. Her scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining Orrick, she served as a law clerk to Judge Anthony Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Cornelia Pillard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She received her law degree from New York University School of Law.

Practice:

  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Propriété intellectuelle

Robert M. O'Connell Jr. Of Counsel

Boston

His experience includes clearance, registration and protection of trademarks, trade dress and designs; opposition and cancellation proceedings in the TTAB; UDRP and other domain name proceedings; registration and protection of copyrights; negotiation and drafting of a variety of coexistence, licensing and other IP-related agreements; and providing IP support on various M&A and financing transactions, most recently including a groundbreaking series of securitization deals involving music and television rights involving household-name artists.

Businesses ranging from small start-ups to multi-billion-dollar corporations turn to Bob for help developing and implementing cost-effective domestic and global branding and trademark protection plans. They hail from the financial services, food & beverage, apparel, retail and pharmaceutical industries, among others.

Bob’s significant transactional experience includes a trademark and merchandise license agreement for a large resort casino in Las Vegas, and naming rights and sponsorship agreements for a major league sports stadium and a prominent performing arts center.

He also has extensive commercial litigation and dispute resolution experience in both intellectual property and other matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts, in inter partes and appellate matters before the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, and in UDRP arbitration proceedings. Noteworthy reported cases include: Coach Services, Inc. v. Triumph Learning LLC, 96 U.S.P.Q.2d 1600 (TTAB September 17, 2010) affirmed, 668 F.3d 1356 (Fed. Cir. 2012).

In the 2023 edition of World Trademark Review 1000, a listing of the world’s top trademark practitioners based on peer and client surveys, Bob received top-tier rankings for trademark prosecution and strategy with clients praising him for his “pragmatism, calmness, under pressure and fine-grained, detailed work product. Previously, WTR 1000 reported that Bob “wins effusive praise for his “pragmatic approach and unparalleled attention to detail.” “Simply stated, he is among the most cost-effective, business-oriented lawyers in any specialty.” “He is of incredible value – he matches anybody on expertise and exceeds most, if not all, on responsiveness and efficiency.” In prior years, WTR 1000 reviewers have said: “He never fails to address domestic and global branding issues quickly and comprehensively, causing one client to profess: ‘He is the only lawyer that I would use for trademark work in the Boston area.’” Bob has been characterized as a “distinguished” and “highly respected practitioner” with “a great reputation” in multinational mandates, who is “a trusted adviser in helping to build value in…brands” and “commands respect” particularly in the strategy and commercial field.” He has been listed in WTR 1000 each year since its inaugural edition in 2011, as well as WTR’s Global Leaders short-list since 2019.

Noteworthy past and present client engagements include:

  • A famous sports footwear and apparel brand with trademark enforcement and opposition matters;
  • The world’s largest retailer with trademark clearance matters across several business lines, as well as complex trademark prosecution and TTAB matters;
  • A “super-regional” bank with a portfolio of hundreds of federal and state trademarks and an active TTAB and UDRP enforcement program;
  • A global spirits company with hundreds of brands and an extensive enforcement docket;
  • A leading global private equity firm;
  • A national women’s apparel retail chain with stores across the United States and Canada; and
  • A branded pharmaceutical company with pioneering products for both human and veterinary medicine.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group

David Benhamou Senior Associate

Santa Monica

David represents high growth technology companies and venture capital firms in many areas, including corporate and securities law, formation, ongoing corporate matters, and venture capital financings.

David began his legal career as a corporate associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. During his time at NYU School of Law, David worked with a number of startups.