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John Ren Counsel

New York

John's experience spans across various industries, including pharmaceuticals and life sciences, technology, gaming, and agriculture. John has litigated high-profile antitrust cases involving a broad range of business practices and legal theories, including monopolization, restraint of trade, intellectual property-related conduct, bundled rebates, predatory pricing, and other exclusionary practices. He also has experience in transactional investigations and challenges, and and played a key role in successfully defending against government challenge to a high-profile merger involving vertical and horizontal theories.

Before joining Orrick, John served at the Federal Trade Commission for several years. During his time at the FTC, John handled all aspects of anticompetitive conduct investigations and enforcement actions, including CIDs, investigational hearings, strategy and legal theory development, pleadings and dispositive motions. 

Practice:

  • Securities Litigation
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges

Sloan Renfro Spencer Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Her litigation practice focuses on complex securities matters, financial regulatory enforcement actions, and internal investigations. Recently, she has represented:

  • Louis Dreyfus Company in an ongoing commodities class action litigation;
  • A publicly traded pharmaceutical company in ongoing government investigations; and
  • A Fortune 50 company in ongoing shareholder demand disputes.

Sloan was also recently published in The American Criminal Law Review for her note, “The Need for a Clear Statement After 'Bridgegate': Combatting SCOTUS’s Narrowing View of Corruption with an 'Abuse of Functions' Offense."

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Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Real Estate

Dr. Stefan Renner Partner

Dusseldorf; Munich

Stefan focuses as well on real estate transactions and corporate restructurings. 

Kelsey Repka Managing Associate

New York

Kelsey, based in the New York Office, works closely with innovative startups and venture capital investors, helping them navigate the legal complexities of growing their business. Focusing on venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance, Kelsey enjoys guiding clients from the early stages of their journey through to successful exits.

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Practice:

  • Technology Transactions
  • Propriété intellectuelle
  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • Patents
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Simon Reulein Associate

Dusseldorf

He advises clients on intellectual property law, in particular in the context of IP license or assignment agreements, R&D collaborations, mergers and acquisitions or venture and other strategic transactions that involve the commercialization of IP.

Simon also advises clients on strategic IP protection and enforcement, in particular in the field of patent, trademark and copyright law.

Prior to joining Orrick, Simon was a trainee lawyer with three renown international law firms as well as with the German Federal Cartel Office.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Financement des obligations recettes
  • Financement des transports
  • Infrastructure
  • Health Care Finance
  • Obligations à caractère général

Christine Reynolds Partner

Portland; Seattle

Christine has more than two decades of experience in public infrastructure finance, advising on both traditional bond financings and innovative funding structures. She serves as a Vice-Chair of the Public Finance Group and on the leadership team for the Impact Finance Group.

Christine’s experience includes various general obligation and revenue bond financings, including those relating to transportation, education, healthcare, water and wastewater, economic development, urban renewal, public power and other complex and innovative social and infrastructure financings sometimes involving public-private partnerships (P3) for large transportation and utility issuers, state and local municipalities, and other for-profit and nonprofit corporations.

She has extensive knowledge and experience with disclosure requirements for municipal issuers under federal securities laws, including both initial and continuing disclosure issues, material events disclosure, public offerings, private placements and other municipal securities regulatory matters.

Christine is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars given by trade and professional organizations within the municipal finance industry, including serving as Chair for The Bond Buyer's 2022 Infrastructure Conference and Board of Directors to Women in Public Finance.

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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges
  • Antitrust and Competition
  • Propriété intellectuelle

Robert Reznick Senior Counsel

Washington, D.C.

He currently is national coordinating counsel for a major oil company in connection with its climate change litigation. He previously served as co-lead counsel to a major international pharmaceutical manufacturer in the defense of nationwide litigation challenging industry pricing practices.

Rob’s experience includes extensive work in antitrust and False Claims Act cases, claims alleging fraud, and agency enforcement actions. His pharmaceutical industry activities include service as outside counsel to and Corporate Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Security Institute, Inc., the industry’s not-for-profit trade organization dedicated to the fight against pharmaceutical counterfeiting.

He is Managing Editor of The World in U.S. Courts, Orrick’s quarterly review of court decisions addressing personal jurisdiction over non-U.S. parties and the extraterritorial application of U.S. law to global business and cross-border activities.

Rob also served two terms on the District of Columbia Bar’s Pro Bono standing committee. Before joining Orrick, he was a partner in Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and Clifford & Warnke, in Washington, D.C.

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Practice:

  • Investigations internationales et mesures d'application
  • Loi sur les fausses déclarations
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • FCPA & Anti–Corruption
  • Litigation for the Life Sciences & HealthTech Sector
  • Whistleblower & Corporate Investigations
  • FDA & Healthcare Regulatory
  • Enquêtes Internationales
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Éthique et Conformité
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Gouvernance d'entreprise
  • Défense pénale des cols blancs (cadres)

David Rhinesmith Partner

Washington, D.C.

David represents clients in matters involving the False Claims Act (FCA), the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), federal securities laws, and the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, among others. He has particular experience handling government investigations and complex civil litigation arising under state and federal false claims acts, including whistleblower-initiated FCA suits. His litigation experience includes oral argument before the First Circuit and state appellate courts, leading briefing in federal and state trial and appellate courts, and deposing senior government officials.

David routinely leads internal investigations relating to a range of ethics, fraud, and corruption issues, including bribery, corruption, accounting fraud, revenue recognition, embezzlement, and other misconduct. David also has extensive compliance experience. He served as Global Investigations & Compliance Counsel at a leading medical device company, and served as Counsel with the Legal Compliance & Investigations team at one of the world's largest technology companies (both client secondments). He played a key role in multiple DOJ- and SEC-appointed corporate compliance monitorships, as both counsel to the Monitor and helping clients successfully navigate monitorships. He routinely works with clients to develop and enhance their compliance programs.

David previously worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, serving as lead counsel in more than a dozen criminal and civil matters at all levels of federal and state court.

David is the hiring partner for the Washington, D.C. office and partner in charge of Orrick's D.C. summer program. He serves as firm-wide staffing partner for his practice group and is a member of the practice's professional development committee.

In 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 David was selected to the Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers Rising Stars list.

Practice:

  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Energy & Infrastructure

Cacique Rich-Martinez Managing Associate

Houston

Cacique counsels  global energy companies, private equity funds and renewables developers on a wide range of transactions in the energy industry with a particular focus on renewable and traditional energy. He represents his clients in connection with the development, repowering, acquisition, and divestiture of wind, solar and energy storage projects, and the acquisition and divestiture of upstream oil and gas projects, the formation of joint ventures, and other corporate governance and legal due diligence matters.

Cacique served a combined 14 years in the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve, and is a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom.

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Practice:

  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges

Chris Ricigliano Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Chris is experienced in handling all aspects of litigation for clients of all sizes and across subject matters. He has worked to initiate litigation, managed ESI collections and discovery disputes, prepared cases for trial and worked on teams trying bench and jury trials to completion. Chris is committed to serving clients however necessary to meet their dispute resolution needs, including by resolving disputes outside of court. 

Daniel Rico Managing Associate

Miami

His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and securities transactions. He also counsels clients on corporate governance.