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:
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.
Milan
She also carries out activities and consulting for national and international non-profit organizations.
Nicoletta qualified as a lawyer in 1978. Prior to joining Orrick, she worked at Studio Legale Tributario in Milan, a law firm associated with Ernst & Young International.
New York
Her practice focuses on project finance and development for renewable energy projects.
Prior to law school, Ladan worked as a patent examiner at the USPTO. Her concentration area was in renewable energy technology including battery storage and hydrogen and fuel cells. She received a Bronze Medal from the Department of Commerce for Superior Federal Service.
Prior to USPTO, Ladan was a senior packaging engineer in a leading semiconductor company where she led supplier selection and qualification effort and helped with suppliers' development activities and capacity expansion.
Seattle
Emily advises high growth technology companies in general formation, venture capital and private equity financings, and corporate governance. In addition to advising companies, Emily represents investor firms in connection with their investments in private companies.
Emily received her JD from the University of Washington, where she was a member of the Technology Law and Public Policy clinical program and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts.
Prior to joining Orrick, Emily worked as a musician. She has released several recording projects, including an LP with Refresh Records.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Lisa represents clients in a variety of energy transactions, including project development, mergers, acquisitions and financings. She has a particular focus on real property matters, including negotiating site control documents, title insurance policies and surveys, and coordinating a wide variety of title curative work.
Lisa's background includes commercial real estate work for institutional clients and high net worth individuals, with extensive experience representing clients on acquisitions, dispositions, financing, and joint ventures.
Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)
Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)
Lorenzo 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. Mr. Lista assists the litigation team to prepare for trial, including drafting deposition summaries, factual memoranda and exhibit charts. Lorenzo also works with practice office attorneys on transactional tasks, including contract review and due diligence.
Prior to joining Orrick, Lorenzo interned with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Pittsburgh and with the University of Pittsburgh Elder Law Clinic.
New York
Jolie also plays a leadership role in the firm’s client relationship program. She works with the firm’s relationship partners and client teams globally to ensure optimal communication, offer value added relationship benefits, and meet clients’ service and relationship expectations in the fast-changing legal market.
Jolie has more than 20 years of experience in law firm communications and business development. She began her career at the New York-based international law firm of Rogers & Wells, where she built the firm’s marketing and communications department and served on the senior team that orchestrated Rogers & Wells’ three-way combination with U.K.-based Clifford Chance and Germany-based Punder. As head of Business Development for the Americas Region at Clifford Chance, she led the rebranding of the Americas practice and collaborated with colleagues internationally to integrate the combined firm through the introduction of a global client relationship program and consistent, client-focused approaches to business development.
She is a competitive cyclist, a less competitive road runner and a novice mountaineer.
Santa Monica
Gary has spent his career successfully representing clients in intellectual property litigation matters, including patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret disputes. He also represents clients in contested U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proceedings, including serving as lead counsel on numerous inter partes reviews (IPRs) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Gary litigates cases involving a broad array of technologies, such as new pharmaceuticals, drug delivery systems, medical devices, biologic therapies and biosimilars, microprocessor architecture, computers, telecommunications, semiconductors, software, and data encryption.
When it comes to his counseling practice, Gary develops proactive intellectual property strategies, delivers insightful advice on transactional matters, and provides IP portfolio management, prosecution, and licensing advice.
For nearly 20 years, Gary has been recognized by a variety of publications, including by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 75 IP Litigators and a “Top IP Lawyer” in California, by the Los Angeles Business Journal as a “Leader of Influence: Top Litigator and Trial Attorney,” and by IAM Patent 1000 as a “Leading Patent Litigator.”
Paris
Il conseille les startups et les sociétés à forte croissance dans le secteur des technologies tout au long de leur développement, de leur création à leurs opérations de levées de fonds, fusions, acquisitions et joint-ventures, ainsi que les investisseurs en Venture et Growth Capital. Olivier dispose également d’une expertise reconnue dans le domaine des levées de fonds transfrontalières complexes, ainsi qu’en fusions & acquisitions dans le secteur des technologies. En parallèle de son activité, Olivier dispense des cours sur le capital-risque à l'EDHEC. Olivier a précédemment travaillé au sein des bureaux d’Orrick à San Francisco et Menlo Park.
Olivier conseille notamment Aledia, Alice & Bob, Another Brain, Bellman, Dataiku, Finary, Ganymed Robotics, Gatewatcher, Highlife, Murfy, Myr.ai, Payfit, SESAMm, SiPearl, Tehtris, Upowa, Volta Medical, Xelan, XXII, Yescapa.
Olivier conseille également des fonds d’investissement de premier plan ainsi que des investisseurs stratégiques et notamment Airbus Ventures, Alven, Astanor, Bpifrance, ETF Partners, Felix Capital, NGP Capital, One Peak, Princeville Capital, Raise Capital, Seedcamp.
Avant de rejoindre Orrick, Olivier a travaillé dans le département Corporate de Gibson Dunn & Crutcher à Paris.
New York
He regularly advises sponsors, lenders, financial institutions and private equity investors in debt and equity financings and restructurings across the renewable energy, conventional energy and infrastructure sectors.
Paris
Il conseille sur des opérations de financements d'acquisitions à effet de levier, avec un accent particulier sur la dette privée, et de financements distressed et situations spéciales. Il est également expérimenté en matière de financements corporate, de restructurations de dettes et de financements venture pour les entreprises à forte croissance. Il intervient à la fois côté prêteur et côté emprunteur.
Miami
Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and securities transactions. She also counsels clients on corporate governance matters.