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740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Class Action Defense
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Procès
  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges
  • Litiges relatifs aux titres, recours collectifs et actions obliques des actionnaires
  • Gouvernance d'entreprise

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.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Oil & Gas

Tyler Davis Senior Associate

Houston

Tyler advises energy industry sponsors, developers, issuers and investors in a broad range of financing matters, including construction financings, bridge loans, back leverage financings, and tax equity. Tyler's experience includes project financings and related corporate matters involving utility-scale solar, distributed solar, wind, hydroelectric power, and upstream and midstream oil and gas projects.

740

Practice:

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

Harold Yu Partner

Silicon Valley; San Francisco

Harold advises technology companies and has significant experience with venture capital financings, debt financings, public offerings, mergers & acquisitions and technology transactions. He is deeply interested in technology. Prior to law school, Harold was a software engineer at Oracle Corporation and an intern at NASA Ames Research Center.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Responsible Business
  • Capital Markets
  • Renewable Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • International Trade and Investment
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Data Centers

Ashley Walter Partner & Chief Sustainability Officer

Seattle

As Orrick’s Chief Sustainability Officer, he also oversees Orrick's strategic sustainability initiatives. Ashley focuses on developing innovative methods of supporting clients in achieving ESG objectives, including designing novel systems to manage supply chain risk; forming and guiding management-level ESG Steering Committees; and helping clients address the ESG requirements of major customers by engaging with those customers on our clients’ behalf.

Ashley is a co-founder and past chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility Law Committee of the ABA Business Law Section, has co-chaired the Practising Law Institute's annual ESG program for the last four years, and is heavily involved in ESG initiatives at Stanford Law School, where has served as a moderator at the Stanford Directors' College, has lectured on ESG at business law courses, has taught the course “Corporate Social Responsibility,” and will be teaching the course “Law and Governance in ESG Strategy” in the spring of 2025. Prior to Orrick, Ashley founded the corporate social responsibility practice at a Silicon Valley-based law firm.

How I help clients:

  • Customer ESG Engagement: Engaging with clients’ major customers in response to ESG inquiries or requirements
  • Supply Chain Risk: Developing responsible sourcing systems for high-risk supply chains
  • ESG Goal Management: Advice regarding retaining, modifying or withdrawing ESG goals
  • ESG Steering Committees: Forming and guiding management-level ESG Steering Committees
  • ESG Due Diligence: Conducting ESG due diligence with a focus on post-closing program building
  • Quarterbacking Compliance: Creating and advancing a project plan for regulatory compliance, including working with third-party consultants

Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Jonas Wang Senior Associate

Washington, D.C.

Jonas has represented clients in the technology sector in federal and state courts across the country, with argument experience in the federal courts of appeals.

Before joining Orrick, Jonas served as a law clerk to Judge Beverly B. Martin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Judge Analisa Torres of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  A graduate of Yale Law School, Jonas was an Articles and Essays Editor for the Yale Law Journal and a member of the Veterans Legal Services Clinic.

Jonas previously served as a staff attorney at a leading nonprofit and litigated in federal district and appellate courts challenging adverse effects from criminal fines and fees.

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Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Compensation & Benefits

Lisandre Bedard-Venne Managing Associate

Paris

Lisandre conseille les entreprises françaises et internationales sur tous les aspects du droit du travail français.
Avant de rejoindre Orrick, Lisandre a travaillé en tant que collaboratrice au sein des équipes de droit social de cabinets d'avocats provinciaux et internationaux basés à Montréal et à Paris. Lisandre a obtenu son LL.B. et son J.D. à l'Université de Montréal et est admise aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec.
740

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Propriété intellectuelle
  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges
  • Mass Torts & Product Liability
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

Lisa T. Simpson Partner

New York

Lisa has been recognized as one of the "Top 250 Women in IP" by Managing Intellectual Property and has received accolades from American Lawyer, Benchmark Litigation, The Legal 500 USA and New York Times Magazine with World Trademark Review 1000 noting that Lisa “marries a rich comprehension of IP law with a gift for connecting with people, making full use of each advantage in the courtroom.” Lisa was recently named to Lawdragon's 500 Leading Litigators in America list.

Trial Experience

Lisa has served as trial counsel across a wide range of matters. She recently served as co-lead trial counsel in a case in Delaware Chancery Court in a dispute over corporate control and ownership. She is currently serving as lead trial counsel in an energy distribution contract and rate dispute in North Dakota. Lisa also served as trial counsel for Oracle in its dispute with Google over the Java APIs in Android phones in the Northern District of California and served as trial counsel in a matter involving the trade dress of a hip implant medical device in the District of Colorado. Lisa has also served as trial counsel in a number of product liability matters involving allegations concerning talc, analgesics and herbicides.

Intellectual Property

Lisa handles a variety of high-profile trademark, trade secret, and copyright matters. Lisa’s copyright experience includes some of the leading copyright cases of the past decade: she represented Oracle in its litigation with Google over the Java APIs, represented DISH Networks, LCC in its copyright litigation with the broadcast networks over various features offered by DISH’s Hopper DVR, including AutoHop and Sling and served as counsel to Supap Kirtsaeng before the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of the copyright first sale doctrine’s applicability to goods manufactured abroad.

Lisa’s trademark and trade secret litigation has spanned a variety of courts and industries: she successfully defended trademark infringement claims in the Northern District of California on behalf of Sony over its popular “Gran Turismo” racing video game and scored two separate wins in the Southern District of New York and then in the Second Circuit on behalf of client Sanei in trademark litigation brought by fashion designer Jill Stuart. Lisa also successful established secondary meaning and secured a preliminary injunction for the New York City Triathlon in S.D.N.Y. Lisa also represented a major pharmaceutical and healthcare company in trade secrets litigation concerning multi-payor coordination of prescription drug benefits loyalty cards.

Products Liability and Consumer Class Action

Lisa serves as counsel to Johnson & Johnson, Chanel, and Avon in cases asserting claims arising from the use of its talcum powder products, including claims of mesothelioma and ovarian cancer. She also represented Wyeth and Dow Agrosciences in a variety of complex products liability and consumer class action litigations. Lisa served as counsel in hundreds of product liability matters concerning injuries allegedly associated with childhood vaccines, handled litigations involving the labeling and advertising of Advil, and obtained the dismissal, prior to class certification, of a consumer class action in a matter concerning the calcium supplement Caltrate.

Current Pro Bono Representation

Lisa served as trial counsel for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, securing an important trial win invalidating as unconstitutional a statewide law that jeopardized access to safe and legal abortion services in Kentucky.
Lisa also has served in a variety of firm management roles, including on the Firm’s Management Committee, as Hiring Partner for the New York office as well as Partner-in-Charge of Firmwide Campus Recruiting and as a member of the Professional Development Committee.
740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Gouvernance d'entreprise

Karen Dempsey Senior Advisor

San Francisco

Karen is involved in a full range of corporate legal projects for high growth technology companies including venture financings, public offerings, public company securities law compliance matters and mergers and acquisitions. She also regularly advises public companies and board of directors on corporate governance issues. Karen's clients include private and public companies in the biotechnology, real estate, finance and Internet related industries. She also represents underwriters in initial public offerings and follow-on offerings and venture capital firms in investment transactions.

Karen is a frequent speaker on corporate and securities law topics including Initial Public Offerings, Corporate Governance and Sarbanes-Oxley matters. She is also Co-Editor of Part III of Venture Capital & Public Offering Negotiation, published by Aspen Law & Business.

Before joining Orrick, Karen was a shareholder at Heller Ehrman LLP and was chair of their firmwide corporate governance practice group.

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Private Credit
  • Banking & Finance

Giulio Asquini Of Counsel

Milan ; Rome

His expertise spans all types of acquisition financings and leveraged buyouts, both in syndicated and take-and-hold spaces. This includes senior debt, unitranche financings, subordinated debt, and mezzanine capital, structured as loan facilities and bond issuances.

Giulio has also developed a strong proficiency in refinancings, corporate financings - such as revolving and capex facilities - and real estate finance transactions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Giulio was an associate in a leading Italian law firm, where he also gained experience on M&A and private equity deals, assisting Italian and foreign companies and private equity investment vehicles in acquisition and investment transactions.

Holly Boux Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Before joining Orrick, Holly clerked for the Honorable Jane Kelly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Honorable Tena Campbell of the United States District Court for the District of Utah. Prior to her clerkships, she was a litigation associate at Arnold & Porter.

Holly is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served on the Board of Student Advisers, as an Articles Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and as a research assistant for Professor Diane L. Rosenfeld, Professor Michael Ashley Stein, and the Harvard Law School Project on Disability.

Holly has a Ph.D. in American Government from Georgetown University, where she concentrated on judicial politics in the state and federal courts. Prior to law school she taught political science at Colorado State University. Her published work has appeared in the New Mexico Law Review, the Fordham Urban Law Journal, the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, and the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, among other journals.

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Fiscalité
  • Public Finance

John Stanley Partner

San Francisco

In his municipal finance practice, John has served as bond counsel, special tax counsel and underwriter’s counsel for a variety of transactions, including particularly governmental, airport, and public power financings. John has represented issuers and borrowers before the Internal Revenue Service in connection with audits, private letter rulings, and requests pursuant to the voluntary closing agreement program (VCAP). 

John has worked with issuers to establish post-issuance compliance programs tailored to their specific financings, and also has significant experience with tax-exempt commercial paper programs for both governmental and exempt facilities.  John is a regular speaker at various conferences focused on public finance and tax, including conferences organized by the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the American Bar Association Tax Section, and the California Bond Buyer Conference.  John is serving as Chair of the National Association of Bond Lawyers' "The Institute" conference in 2024.