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Practice:

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

Mark Parris Partner

Seattle

"An outstanding trial lawyer, very strategic, very responsive and very creative," according to Chambers USA's Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

His experience includes representing Fortune 500 and other clients from various industries (e.g. technology, financial services, chemical/manufacturing, energy, retail). The litigation has involved IP, Securities, Insurance, Employment, Products Liability, Class Actions and significant contract disputes in Federal and State courts and before arbitration panels throughout the United States. He has been a speaker nationally at various seminars on litigation, arbitration, mediation and trial techniques. Mark has tried dozens of cases – both jury and non-jury trials – and mediated and arbitrated 75-plus cases. He has argued numerous appeals in Federal Circuits across the country and has served as an expert witness on multiple occasions. Mark has also served as National Counsel to a number of clients involved in multi-state litigation. He has been recognized as one of America’s Top 100 Bet-The-Company Litigators, is one of two IP litigators in Washington selected as an Amazing Attorney by Washington CEO magazine and was recently recognized as one of the top 30 Trial Lawyers in Washington.

In addition, Mark is a member of the firm’s Insurance Recovery Group. He has been named as the leading policy-holder side attorney in Washington State. He has represented several Fortune 500 companies as well as the State of Washington, the Washington Association of Municipal Attorneys and several cities, counties and port authorities in insurance coverage disputes.

Prior to joining Orrick, Mark was a partner at Heller Ehrman.

Melissa Hall Project Attorney

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

Melissa works with the firms various practice groups to increase efficiency and reduce costs for client services. Her work is primarily transactional, concentrating predominantly on financing matters. Her project portfolio encompasses a spectrum of tasks, including M&A due diligence reviews, capitalization table audits, corporate audits, and various projects associated with disclosure obligations.

Prior to joining Orrick, Melissa dedicated her practice to real estate and the intricacies of oil and gas law, specifically within the Appalachian Basin.

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation

Rachel Capler Senior Associate

San Francisco

Rachel has defended financial services, technology, and retail industry clients on a broad range of employment law issues in federal and state courts and administrative agencies in California and throughout the country. She has significant experience with single plaintiff and class action litigation involving wage and hour claims, collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and representative actions under the California Private Attorneys General Act.

In addition to her extensive litigation practice, Rachel also provides employers with advice and counsel on employment law issues, including best employment practices, at-will employment, compensation and equity, reductions in force, and employee classifications.

Rachel maintains an active pro bono practice by providing advice and counsel on employment matters to non-profit organizations, as well as volunteering with a number of non-profit organizations committed to advancing the right to vote and voting accessibility.

Practice:

  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Sebastian Meul Partner

Munich

His professional focus is on providing legal advice in complex post-M&A and shareholders' disputes, in which he can particularly make use of his many years of experience as an M&A lawyer.

In addition, Sebastian advises his clients in disputes relating to major construction projects, manager liability cases and in other commercial disputes.

He also has extensive experience in advising clients on M&A transactions and corporate law matters.

Besides the above, Sebastian particularly deals with Legal Tech and Blockchain technology developments and frequently shares his knowledge by publishing articles in legal and social media.

Before joining Orrick, Sebastian worked in the Munich office of a renowned German law firm and in the Toronto office of a major Canadian law firm.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Fiscalité

Wolfram Pohl Partner

San Francisco

Wolf represents many of the country’s most prominent developers and financing parties in structuring transactions to take advantage of tax credits, Treasury cash grants, depreciation benefits, and other available tax benefits. He has represented developers and tax equity investors in financings of both wind and solar projects, as well as on tax planning for energy storage, carbon capture, and carbon sequestration projects. 

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Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group

Rajan Patel Managing Associate

Santa Monica

Rajan advises high-growth technology companies of all sizes on formation matters, day-to-day corporate governance, and venture capital financings. He works with founders at every stage, from early formation through financing rounds and acquisitions, delivering practical legal solutions tailored to the unique challenges of growing businesses.

Rajan represents a wide variety of technology companies across consumer internet, software, fintech, climatetech, blockchain, edtech and healthtech industries. He also advises investors and leading venture capital firms on their investments in early and high-growth technology companies.

Prior to joining Orrick, Rajan gained extensive experience in corporate law and venture capital transactions at Kirkland & Ellis and Gunderson Dettmer, where he honed his expertise in complex financing and M&A transactions.

Rajan is a proud Oregonian who earned his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law and his bachelor's degree in Japanese and International Studies from the University of Oregon.

SeoJung Park Partner

Silicon Valley

SeoJung brings experience advising U.S. and International private equity funds in all phases of their operations, including formation, acquisition, financing, restructuring and exiting portfolio investments. She also counsels private and public companies, banks, and financial institutions on the U.S. tax aspects of various financings, capital markets and other transactions.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Compensation & Benefits

Taylor Ball Senior Associate

Santa Monica

Taylor’s recent sell-side experience includes having represented 

  • Heap Inc. in its acquisition by Content Square SAS
  • Casetext, Inc. in its acquisition by Thomson Reuters
  • BrightBytes, Inc. in its acquisition by Google
  • Green Street Power Partners in its sale of a majority equity interest to DIF Capital Partners
  • Clever Inc. in its acquisition by Kahoot!
  • 21st Century Fox, Inc.* in its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company
  • E Trade Financial Corporation* in its acquisition by Morgan Stanley
  • Rockwell Collins, Inc.* in its acquisition by United Technologies Corp.
  • DPx Holdings B.V.* in its acquisition by Thermo Fisher

Her recent buy-side experience includes having represented 

  • SAP SE in its acquisition of WalkMe Ltd.
  • Galaxy Digital LP in its acquisition of GK8 Ltd.
  • Workday in connection with multiple transactions, including its acquisition of Evisort, HiredScore, and Peakon
  • Marvell Technology in its acquisition of Tanzanite Silicon Solutions
  • Antin Infrastructure in its acquisition of GTL Leasing
  • Algolia in its acquisition of Search.io
  • IAC* in its acquisition of Care.com
  • French Multinational Luxury Goods Company* in its acquisition of Tiffany & Co.
  • Exact Sciences Corporation* in its acquisition of Genomic Health, Inc.
  • Hillenbrand, Inc.* in its acquisition of Milacron Holdings
*Denotes pre-Orrick experience.

Practice:

  • Antitrust and Competition
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Craig Falls Partner

Washington, D.C.

Craig has cleared the way for high-profile and highly scrutinized mergers and defended such transactions in litigation when challenged by enforcers. Complementing his merger work, Craig also represents companies in exclusionary conduct investigations and related litigation brought by antitrust enforcers, rival companies, and classes of consumers.

Craig has been on the front lines of cutting-edge antitrust issues, including scrutiny of asset managers under the “common ownership” theory, investigations of patent assertion entities, scrutiny of e-commerce business models, and challenges to pharmaceutical licenses and patent settlements.

He regularly provides antitrust counseling, helping companies structure their joint ventures, licensing arrangements, and other commercial agreements to achieve their business goals at minimized antitrust risk. Craig has published frequently on questions concerning the application of antitrust law to vertical restraints, pricing practices and other relationships between companies operating at different levels of the supply chain.

Craig serves clients in a wide variety of industries, including life sciences, technology, energy, transportation, consumer packaged goods, and retail.

Passionate about pro bono work, Craig focuses on representing the interests of those experiencing homelessness and protects D.C. neighbors facing eviction. He has also represented victims of human trafficking and helped to obtain a trial victory for plaintiffs challenging Wisconsin’s photo identification voter law.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Finance Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Financement du pouvoir public
  • Banking & Finance
  • Structured Finance
  • Power
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Carl Lyon Partner

New York

He has long-standing relationships with a great number of utility clients that span many years and complex transactions, advising them on numerous taxable, tax-exempt, and tax-advantaged financings of all types for electric, gas, water and waste water projects and in restructuring and work-outs. These projects include five different nuclear plants, with financing through both the public capital market and through the U.S. Department of Energy.

Carl was one of the leaders in the development of joint action agencies among municipal utilities. He worked on legislation in 20 states to authorize their formation and testified before legislatures and legislative committees in many of these states. He drafted the first modern indenture for cooperative utilities which served as the model that is currently used by almost every generation and transmission cooperative. He worked with TVA in their exit from the Federal Financing Bank program in the 1980’s and in their financings since then. Carl worked with the major generation and transmission cooperatives that have exited the RUS program in structuring and financing their exit.

Carl has also worked with virtually every major investment banking firm and most major domestic and international banks.

Practice:

  • Structured Finance
  • Banking & Finance
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Real Estate

Laure Seror Of Counsel

Paris

Laure conseille des banques françaises et internationales, des institutions financières ainsi que des sponsors et des emprunteurs sur des opérations de financement françaises ou internationales. Laure est particulièrement active dans le domaine des financements structurés (notamment en matière d’opérations de titrisation et d’opérations impliquant la constitution de fonds de dette) ainsi qu’en matière de financement de  projets d'énergie et d’infrastructure. Elle intervient également régulièrement dans des opérations de financement immobilier.

Avant de rejoindre Orrick en 2017, Laure était collaboratrice pendant cinq ans au sein du département Banque & Finance de Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Paolo Danelzik Associate

Paris

Il intervient principalement en matière de restructurations et de procédures collectives aux côtés de l’ensemble des parties prenantes (débiteurs, actionnaires, créanciers et investisseurs) dans un cadre amiable comme judiciaire.

Avant de rejoindre Orrick, il a eu des expériences professionnelles dans des départements restructuring de cabinets d’avocats internationaux et dans une étude de mandataires judiciaires.