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399061

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Sky Stallbaumer Associate, Currently on client secondment

New York

Sky's practice focuses on general corporate representation, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, both buy side and sell side.

449316

Practice:

  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Pay Equity

Laura Bagarella Partner

New York

Laura’s practice focuses on the executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of domestic and cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, IPOs, minority investments and other corporate transactions. She also regularly advises on the design, taxation, disclosure, negotiation, implementation and ongoing administration of equity and cash incentive programs, deferred compensation plans, severance and other change in control and retention arrangements for both public and private companies, including private equity backed companies. In addition, Laura routinely represents companies and executives in the negotiation of employment, consulting, separation, and other compensation arrangements.

Before joining the firm, Laura practiced at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

740

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Brian M. Blood Senior Associate

New York

His practice has focused on domestic and cross-border private company mergers and acquisitions. He has also advised on a variety of corporate transactions across industries, including de-SPAC transactions, joint ventures, company formations and dissolutions, public offerings, equity and debt financings from both the investor and issuer side, fund financings, and alternative energy transactions. He has assisted in drafting and reviewing filings with the SEC and CFIUS, and has experience in advising on all manner of New York and Delaware corporate, partnership, limited liability company and non-profit law.

Brian was a summer associate in the firm’s New York office in 2014.

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Compensation & Benefits

Christopher De Los Reyes Senior Associate

New York

Chris focuses in a variety of cross-border employment matters, including corporate immigration and workforce mobility strategies for multinational organizations. From startup ventures to large Fortune 500 companies and international conglomerates, he has represented clients across a diverse range of industries, including technology, banking and financial services, energy, manufacturing, retail and e-commerce, insurance, logistics and transportation, and academic institutions, among others. 

As a member of Orrick's Global Employment Team, Chris focuses on international comparative employment law and assists clients on matters such as compliance, HR policies, global offer letters/employment contracts, separation agreements, etc. 

Having practiced U.S. immigration and nationality law for many years prior to joining the Firm, Chris bolsters Orrick's capabilities and subject matter experience in the ever-changing corporate immigration space. To this end, he routinely advises HR and management teams on I-9 compliance, procurement of work authorization for foreign national talent, and the immigration-related impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and other types of corporate restructuring. Chris has successfully assisted companies with obtaining nonimmigrant visas for H-1B Specialty Occupation Professionals, L-1 Intracompany Transferees, E-1/E-2 Treaty Traders and Investors, TN NAFTA professionals, F-1 Students, J-1 Exchange Visitors, B-1/B-2 Temporary Visitors, and O-1 Extraordinary Ability Individuals. He also has extensive experience with the PERM labor certification process, immigrant visas, legal permanent residency (green card) applications, and naturalization/citizenship applications. 

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Employment Law & Litigation

Lisa Lupion Partner

New York

She begins by gathering an in-depth understanding of her client’s business and goals, and then evaluating the specific issue at hand, so that whether navigating a counseling issue or a complex litigation, she can understand every possible angle and design the best possible solution.

Lisa, who serves as a member of Orrick's Management Committee, regularly litigates a broad range of employment issues in court, administrative agencies, and arbitration. Lisa also helps companies at all stages of development avoid litigation or prevent a single-plaintiff matter from escalating to a class action. She has successfully handled a number of high-stakes arbitrations and internal investigations. In addition, she offers counseling on discrimination, harassment, equal pay, wage and hour issues, disability accommodations, termination and compensation.  Lisa regularly advises clients on a variety of employment-related issues, including human resources policies and procedures, offer letters, severance agreements and employee termination. 

Prior to joining Orrick, Lisa served as a law clerk to the Hon. Peter Leisure in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. 

448119

Practice:

  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • Technology Transactions
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Private Equity
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

David Sharrow Partner

Boston

David brings a wealth of expertise, focusing on diverse cutting-edge technologies, including life sciences (biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, digital health, genomic technology), fintech, artificial intelligence, information technology (hardware, software, SaaS, and database solutions), edtech, renewable energy, sustainable technologies, AR/VR and cybersecurity.

He advises clients on corporate partnerships, strategic alliances and licensing agreements with leading U.S. and global entities, as well as major research universities and institutes. His experience includes navigating the IP and technology aspects of venture capital financings, public offerings and some of the largest M&A transactions involving venture-backed companies.

David has lectured at major institutions, including Tulane, Yale, Princeton, NYU, Columbia, Cornell and Fordham.

Lauren Guilford Managing Associate

San Francisco

Lauren advises clients on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters such as equity-based compensation, deferred compensation arrangements, and 280G compliance, especially as these issues arise in mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions. 

740

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Compensation & Benefits

Chanani Sandler Of Counsel

New York

Chanani advises multinational companies across all industry lines on a variety of employment-related matters and implementation of global equity compensation programs. He globally manages large multi-country and large multi-function HR projects.

From an employment law perspective, Chanani advises his clients on a wide range of employment-related matters outside the United States, including global/local offer letters and employment contracts, rollout of HR policies and employee handbooks as well as termination and settlement agreements. His work also covers advising clients hiring, HR data privacy compliance, discrimination risks, as well as performance management and terminations. He also works with his clients to consider the employment-related impact of, and undertake due diligence for, cross-border corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, and IPOs.

Chanani also counsels his clients on how to effectively design, implement, communicate and administer equity-based compensation programs and other long-term incentive awards to their employees and other service providers worldwide. His work covers securities law, foreign exchange, employment, tax and other compliance requirements related to these programs. He also provides services in the areas of corporate tax planning, cross-border tax planning, payroll support and employee education with respect to global equity programs, including in the context of corporate transactions.

He has presented at industry educational forums, such as the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) and Global Equity Organization (GEO), on topics related to tax compliance as well as effective design, implementation and administration of global equity-based awards and other long-term incentive plans.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Transactions
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Daniel Patrick Kearney Senior Associate

New York

Daniel focuses on technology transactions, including drafting and negotiating a variety of commercial and intellectual property focused agreements, and represents technology companies in a variety of areas, including stand-alone licensing, software as a service, and software development arrangements, and corporate matters, mergers & acquisitions, and financings.

Before joining Orrick, Daniel was an attorney in the IP & Tech Transactions group at Davis Polk & Wardwell, working on a variety of intellectual property, data privacy and security, and transactional matters.

Before becoming a lawyer, Daniel spent several years prosecuting patent applications as a registered patent agent.

740

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

Laura L. Becking Partner

New York

Her practice is unique in the market. In addition to leading Orrick’s Global Employment & Equity Compensation practice; she is also integrated into the firm’s top-tier employment practice and compensation and benefits practice, enabling her to offer comprehensive solutions for the modern workplace.

Her strategies extend beyond regulations and compliance, into the company’s overall culture and societal nuances of their local workforce. By blending these elements, her targeted plans address a wide range of issues, including hiring, performance management, terminations, discrimination, reclassification, HR data privacy compliance, employee handbooks and policies. She also helps implement employee equity and other compensation and benefits arrangements outside the United States, and covers all aspects of securities, foreign exchange and tax filings triggered by such rollouts. Whether working with a pre-IPO start-up or an international corporation, Laura remains focused on her client’s human capital.

Laura’s distinctive approach places her in high demand for corporate transactions, in particular IPOs and acquisitions. She advised on the employment and/or equity compensation aspects of a leading global technology company and a multinational digital communications technology conglomerate’s global acquisitions; various global transactions for GoPro, Sabre, and a U.S. social media company; the pre- and post-merger integration for DigiCert’s acquisition of Symantec’s Website Security Business; as well as the global acquisitions and global tender offers for a large number of pre-IPO clients. She has also advised companies such as Alcon, Pinterest, Elasticsearch, GitHub, Nvidia, Optimizely, Scale, Twist, Viasat, and Vice on global employment and equity compensation matters and transactions.

Laura serves as co-leader of Orrick’s Women’s Initiative.

Millay Kogan Project Attorney

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

Millay is a recent addition to the Orrick Analytics team, where she will leverage her unique background, as well as extensive experience in operational planning, development and execution, to support wide variety of business units across the Orrick's practices.

Francesco Macri Of Counsel

Milan

With an extensive experience and a deep understanding of the real estate market, Francesco regularly advises national and international institutional investors, funds, developers and managers in the context of real estate purchases and sales, contributions in real estate funds, development transactions and in the management and coordination of complex domestic and cross-border portfolio transactions, in all asset classes, including logistics, office, hospitality & leisure (including camping), residential, student housing and retail.

Throughout his career, Francesco has also assisted clients in the management, commercializaton and development of their real estate assets, in connection with corporate leases and rentals, private contracts, management agreements and all types of real estate service contracts.