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

Larry Kane Partner

San Francisco

Larry's typical representations range from  formation and early stage corporate counseling, angel and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships to angel and venture fund formations and lending and other commercial transactions. Larry's practice focus on a range of technology companies focused on education technology and education services, software and SAAS based businesses, consumer products to semiconductor businesses.  

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Technology & Innovation

Andrew Kang Senior Associate

New York

Andrew advises technology companies throughout their lifecycles, including on company formations, day-to-day corporate matters, financing transactions and liquidity events.

Andrew received his JD from Columbia Law School. Prior to joining Orrick, Andrew worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP where he advised on M&A and securities transactions and general corporate matters.

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:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group

Aria Kashefi Partner

San Francisco

Aria Kashefi is a Partner in Orrick’s Technology Companies Group. Aria’s practice focuses on advising emerging technology companies and investors in a variety of transactional matters in the U.S. and internationally, including venture capital financings, exit transactions, technology licensing, corporate reorganization, governance and corporate and securities law.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

Don Keller Head of Corporate Development

Silicon Valley

In 2020 and 2021, Don founded and served as CEO of Joinder, a SaaS engagement platform that provides a system of record for legal projects and files/documents, which was acquired by Brightflag.

Prior to founding Joinder, Don spent his legal career as a corporate partner at Orrick and Venture law Group advising high growth technology companies, public companies, venture capital firms and investment banks. He advised clients on more than 60 public offerings, 75 acquisition transactions and several hundred venture financings.

Chambers USA recognized Don for his work, noting he is "valued for his knowledge of venture capital firms and his strength in advising technology companies on public offerings, acquisition transactions and venture financings. One client insists that 'I would not dream of starting a company without him as my outside counsel.'"

Don held many leadership positions at Orrick. Don most recently led Orrick’s Technology Sector, which is one of the three focus areas (along with energy and finance) for the firm. Don is a former member of Orrick’s Board of Directors, served as head of the firm’s global corporate practice, served as head of the firm’s Silicon Valley Office and served as co-head of the firm's diversity efforts.

Don also previously served for many years on the Executive Committee of Venture Law Group.

Don recently represented companies being sold in the following transactions: Wavefront to VMware; Nervana to Intel; TOA to Oracle; Altiscale to SAP; Sailthru to Campaign Monitor; Twin Prime to Salesforce; 3Scale to Red Hat; Vendavo to Francisco Partners; FoodyDirect to Goldbelly; Yieldex to AppNexus; and LS9 to Renewable Energy Group.

Don led transactions for Google (Nasdaq GS: GOOG), Oracle (Nasdaq GS: ORCL), Tibco (Nasdaq GS: TIBX), Adaptec (Nasdaq GS: ADPT), Shutterfly (Nasdaq GS: SFLY), Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE:MSO), Sum Total Systems (Nasdaq GS: SUMT) and Rambus (Nasdaq GS: RMBS).  Don also represented many investment banking clients in public offering transactions, including representing Goldman, Sachs & Co. in offerings for many issuers.

Don also is a past member of the Board of Overseers of Boston College Law School. 

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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Capital Markets
  • Blockchain & Digital Assets

Daniel S. Kim Partner

Santa Monica; Los Angeles; Orange County

Dan has a general business and corporate law practice, representing both emerging and public companies in a variety of matters, including corporate and securities law, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, de-SPAC transactions, day-to-day general corporate matters, structured liquidity programs, public offerings, Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and compliance and corporate governance.

Dan began his legal career in Silicon Valley and works with a significant number of clients in Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world.  Dan is also an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School. 

Dan’s current and former representations include:

  • Beyond Meat
  • Ceradyne
  • Compellent Technologies
  • GitHub
  • Luminar Technologies
  • Momentus
  • Outward
  • Pinterest
  • Planet Labs
  • Spectrum Pharmaceuticals
  • ZestFinance

 Dan also has represented numerous venture capital and private equity investors including Founders Fund, Kapor Capital, Storm Ventures, Warburg Pincus, Wicklow Capital and many others.  

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Adam Krueger Senior Associate

Washington, D.C.

Adam works closely with founders, directors and venture capitalists from pre-formation through exit and has significant experience leading high growth companies through:

  • company formation;
  • capital raising strategy and venture capital financings;
  • general corporate and governance matters;
  • complex corporate transactions of all types; and
  • successful exit transactions, including mergers & acquisitions.

Adam also leverages his unique business and legal perspective to advise venture capital investors (including venture firms, strategic corporate investors and individuals) in evaluating, structuring, and managing their investments throughout the life cycle of disruptive technology companies.

Adam is known for partnering with companies and sharing in their vision for change to provide flexible solutions that meet evolving business needs. He represents companies and their investors in a variety of industries, including space tech, life sciences, digital platforms and software services, transport, artificial intelligence, health and lifestyle and sports tech, among others.

Adam is a proud father of two young daughters and is actively involved with orphanage work in Kenya, helping drive non-profit efforts throughout the region.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Technology Transactions
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Jose Lamarque Senior Associate

New York

Jose assists technology companies with drafting, reviewing and negotiating of customer, vendor, partner, end-user and other contracts for a variety of products and services, including software, cloud service and software-as-a-service offerings. Jose also advises companies on open source software usage, including the development and implementation of internal open source policies and advising on risk and remediation of the use of potentially problematic software components.

Jose received his JD from Harvard Law School in 2017. Before joining Orrick, Jose was an attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton, working on various of intellectual property, data privacy and security, and transactional matters.

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Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group
  • Space and Defense Tech Law

Laura Lariu Partner

Santa Monica

She is primarily focused on space & defense transactions, venture capital financings and providing external general counsel guidance. Before joining Orrick, Laura led companies through transformational growth as general counsel and practiced ECVC law.

Laura was an early employee of rocket manufacturer Relativity Space and guided the company's legal strategy through the company's (and world's) first launch of a predominantly 3D-printed full-scale rocket. Throughout that period, Laura helped negotiate $1.3 billion in private funding. She helped secure millions of square feet of physical infrastructure, including a former Boeing C-17 factory and facilities at NASA's Stennis Space Center. She also negotiated customer contracts of over $1 billion with major global satellite operators, and laid the foundation for complying within a national security framework and developing an innovative IP portfolio.

Prior to Relativity Space, Laura was general counsel at Virgin Hyperloop. Before that, Laura was as a corporate attorney with Gunderson Dettmer in New York and worked on innovative deals (venture financings, M&A, IPO) throughout the city's tech boom of 2011-2016. She also applied her fluency in 5 languages to work on a wide array of international deals.

Laura is a founding member of the L Suite, formerly TechGC, a platform of over 2,000 in-house legal leaders at leading tech companies and venture capital funds. She previously served on its Executive Board and Steering Committee and co-led the Los Angeles chapter. She is also on the Steering Committee of Space Beach Law Lab, the leading platform for legal leaders and policymakers to shape the future of the space industry.

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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Public Finance

Elizabeth Lefever Of Counsel

Silicon Valley; Washington, D.C.

She focuses on high growth technology companies and represents both public and private companies and venture capital funds in many areas, including corporate and securities law, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, public company representation and private equity.

Prior to joining Orrick, Elizabeth was of counsel with Clifford Chance and an associate at Brobeck Phleger and Harrison.