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471413

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.

Practice:

  • Private Equity
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Lorraine Dorval Senior Associate

Paris

Lorraine conseille des entreprises et fonds d’investissements français et internationaux sur tous les aspects de droit des sociétés dans le cadre de fusions, acquisitions, réorganisations, carve out et opérations de Private Equity.

Avant de rejoindre Orrick, elle a exercé au sein des bureaux parisiens de Latham & Watkins et Paul Hastings.


Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Technology Transactions
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Nicholas Farnsworth Partner

Boston

Nick provides compliance guidance on both proposed and effective laws on a federal and state level in the United States, including:

  • Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM)
  • Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
  • Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and other biometric privacy laws
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
  • Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC) Act
  • Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
  • U.S. state breach notification laws
  • U.S. state privacy laws
  • U.S. artificial intelligence laws

He also counsels clients on the impact of international laws from a U.S. perspective, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the ePrivacy Directive (ePD), and the EU Artificial Intelligence Act.

Nick helps clients develop flexible governance frameworks for the development and use of artificial intelligence in the face of ever evolving AI legislation. He also advises clients on strategies, policies and procedures for the sourcing of AI training data, the responsible use of AI by employees, the assessment of risks presented by AI tools, the design of consumer-facing AI, the negotiation of AI-related contracts and the handling of AI-related regulatory inquiries and investigations.

Nick also devotes a portion of his practice to innovative client solutions and community engagement. He was part of the Orrick team that developed Orrick’s AI Resource Center, EU AI Act reference guide, U.S. AI Law Tracker and Gen AI Policy Builder. His pro bono practice has included representing clients in immigration and innocence matters and assisting small businesses with their legal needs.

Nick has obtained the Certified Information Privacy Professional -/ United States (CIPP/US), Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT) and Privacy Law Specialist (PLS) designations from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Technology Transactions
  • Conformité & Règlementation
  • Investigations internationales et mesures d'application
  • Responsible Business
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Shannon Yavorsky Partner

San Francisco; Londres

She advises public and private companies across several sectors, including life sciences and health technology, financial services, private equity, insurance, social media and technology on a range of EU and U.S. federal and state privacy laws. Shannon’s strategic counseling advice includes, but is not limited to:

  • Advertising and payment card processing self-regulatory frameworks
  • Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM)
  • Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
  • EU AI Act
  • EU e-Privacy Directive (EPD)
  • EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
  • Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA)
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework (AIRMF)
  • Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
  • U.S. state breach notification laws
  • U.S. state privacy laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Virginia and other states

Shannon also helps clients undertake comprehensive privacy, cybersecurity and AI risk assessments, evaluates privacy, security and AI risks in corporate transactions and drafts and negotiates data-related contracts. She advises clients on cross-border data transfers, data breaches and developing global privacy and AI compliance programs.

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation

Jillian Victoria Wagner Senior Associate

Silicon Valley

Jillian has spent her career representing clients in wide variety of employment matters, including equity disputes, FEHA and Title VII claims, and employment contract claims. Jillian has been a crucial part of numerous litigation and trial teams. 

Before joining Orrick, Jillian clerked at San Francisco Superior Court.

Jillian graduated Magna Cum Laude and Order of the Coif from UC Hastings College of the Law.  During law school, Jillian won multiple awards for both brief writing and oral advocacy.  Jillian also served as the Executive Editor of the Hastings Women's Law Journal.  

740

Practice:

  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • Litiges en matière de faillite
  • FCPA & Anti–Corruption

William George Of Counsel

Londres

William is an experienced lawyer and certified fraud examiner who has acted for shareholders, investors, creditors, insolvency practitioners, and high net worth individuals in all aspects of litigation arising from fraud and financial mismanagement in the UK and all of the major offshore jurisdictions. Will's experience includes applications for injunctive relief and third-party disclosure orders, and claims for deceit, fraudulent misrepresentation, and unlawful means conspiracy.

William also has a depth of experience in shareholder and trusts litigation, having acted for corporations, shareholders, trustees and beneficiaries in high value disputes across multiple jurisdictions, including a leading role in the frequently cited cases of Singh vs. Singh, and Re Edwardian Group Limited.

William's involvement in Pro Bono work around the world has included high profile projects such as the negotiation of the UN Arms Treaty, the development of refugee law in Tanzania, and assisting victims of crypto fraud in the United Kingdom.

Practice:

  • Financial Services Litigation
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges

David Shipton Managing Associate

Londres

David frequently acts for clients in the private equity, professional services, financial services, aviation, oil and gas, technology and energy sectors in connection with disputes in the English courts and abroad, arbitration and regulatory investigations.

Prior to moving to Orrick, David held senior in-house legal roles in both the technology and non-profit sectors, as well as completing a secondment in the legal department of a leading global private equity firm.

Practice:

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Technology Transactions
  • Technology & Innovation
  • IP Counseling & Due Diligence
  • Propriété intellectuelle
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Jennifer Criss Of Counsel

Washington, D.C.

Jennifer routinely advises clients on strategic partnerships and guides companies through every stage of corporate transactions where IP and technology are  key assets and where artificial intelligence (AI) is a driving factor. She helps clients prepare for acquisition, including developing and implementing remediation strategies, and counsels clients seeking to acquire businesses as strategic partners or as private equity funds investing in innovative technology, IP, and AI.

Additionally, she works closely with established companies in drafting and negotiating a wide variety of complex IP, technology, software, intercompany, software as a service (SaaS), reseller, OEM, AI, joint development, consulting, and other commercial agreements and licenses. Jennifer works with cross-border clients across numerous technology-driven sectors, including entertainment and media.

Jennifer has extensive knowledge of copyright law and counsels clients on all aspects of copyright protection.

Jennifer has been in the leadership of the American Bar Association's Section of Intellectual Property Law for over 15 years.  She currently serves on the Sections' Council and has also been a member of the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Board since 2016. Previously she was a member of the Nominating Committee, was Vice Chair of the Copyright Division, and chaired the Committee on Copyright & Social Media. 

Jennifer is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Her speaking engagements and publications have addressed topics such as asset sales involving intellectual property, music licensing, IP ownership matters, and copyright permissions and fair use.

Before her legal career, Jennifer earned her Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught art history at The George Washington University and American University. She received fellowships from the French Ministry of Education (Chateaubriand Fellowship), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, and the University of Pennsylvania.

434078

Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Fintech

Jeremiah Buckley Partner

Washington, D.C.

Jerry is a thought leader in the field of financial services regulation. He co-hosts RegFi, a weekly podcast series, that explores how financial regulation will change more in the next 10 years than in the last 50: https://www.orrick.com/en/Podcasts/RegFi.

Early in his career, Jerry served as Minority Staff Director of the United States Senate Banking Committee, and he played an important role in drafting many of the laws that impact the consumer financial services industry today. Since entering private practice, he has guided clients in developing compliance programs, dealing with regulatory and enforcement challenges and helping shape public policy.

Throughout his career, he has focused on promoting enhanced delivery of financial services. He was a leader in advocating the passage of the federal ESign Act, which authorized use of electronic records in financial services and other transactions. He served as counsel to the Drafting Committee for Standards and Procedures for Electronic Records and Signatures (SPeRS). He co-authored The Law of Electronic Records and Signatures (West Publishing Company) as well as Introduction to Mortgage Banking (American Bankers Association).

He has also taken a lead in promoting national data protection standards. His American Banker article, “Congress needs to hurry up on data protection,” lays out the case for national standards as an alternative to a patchwork of state privacy laws. He serves as advisor to the Financial Services Trade Associations Data Protection Working Group, an informal alliance of national financial trade associations responding to fast changing legislative and regulatory developments related to privacy and data security. He is also an advisor to the Association for Data and Cyber Governance (ADCG) and the Alliance for Innovation in Regulation (AIR).

His clients include banks, mortgage companies, credit card issuers, insurance companies, broker dealers, fintech companies, investment banks and private equity investors. Jerry provides strategic counsel and advice on business formations and acquisitions, licensing and chartering, risk management and enforcement matters involving federal and state regulators.

He has defended companies that are targets of inquiries or enforcement actions by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Congressional Committees and state attorneys general.

Jerry has promoted a modernized approach to financial regulation (regtech). He led Buckley LLP's effort to publish a widely read white paper titled “Financial Regulators’ Dilemma: Administrative and Regulatory Hurdles to Innovation.” The paper is based on interviews with Heads of Innovation at the principle financial agency regulators, and lays out legal and administrative stumbling blocks identified by regulators themselves impeding regtech advances.

Jerry's opinion pieces regularly appear in financial service publications. He has advocated for development of “dynamic disclosures” to offer more useful information to consumers than is provided under the often cumbersome and voluminous static disclosures currently provided.

An article he wrote in the American Banker in 2016, “The Compliance Officer Bill of Rights,” focused attention on the growing risks faced by compliance officers. This led to a symposium on “Rights and Responsibilities of Today’s Chief Compliance Officers — Their Evolving Role,” which was chaired by Jerry and sponsored by American University Washington College of Law. Chief compliance officers from the nation’s leading companies participated in this seminal discussion about how to define and make safe the job of a chief compliance officer.

He has acted as counsel for a number of national financial services trade associations on matters before regulatory agencies and Congress, and in filing amicus briefs related to the interpretation of banking and consumer finance laws in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate courts.

He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law. In 2007, he founded a national financial services consulting company known as Treliant Risk Advisors.

In 2015 he was awarded the Senator William Proxmire Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers.

740

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure
  • Mergers & Acquisitions

Grace Lentz Senior Associate

Houston

Grace advises clients on the successful execution of complex energy projects. She represents developers, sponsors and utilities in the development, acquisition and sale of energy assets, primarily renewable and conventional power technologies. 

Her practice spans the full project lifecycle, including engineering, procurement and construction, major equipment supply, and long-term offtake arrangements. She has significant experience in build-transfer transactions and supports clients through complex M&A and joint venture arrangements in the energy space.

Grace brings a practical, business-focused approach to every deal, helping clients manage risk and achieve their commercial goals in a dynamic sector.

Practice:

  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Antitrust and Competition
  • Litigation & IP
  • Restructuring

Dr. Nicholas Kessler, LL.M. (University of Cambridge), EMBA Partner

Dusseldorf

Nicholas has extensive experience with arbitral proceedings under the auspices of all of the major arbitral institutions and rules (e.g., ICC, DIS, SCC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICSID, ad hoc).

Nicholas graduated from law school in 2003 (University of Munster), earned a PhD in law and an Executive Master of Business Administration (M&A) in 2005 and was allowed to the German bar in 2007. In 2008 he received a Master of Laws diploma from the University of Cambridge (UK) and was entered on the roll as Solicitor of England & Wales in 2010.

Dr. Kessler is a visiting lecturer at the University of Münster and teaches the international arbitration and mediation in the university's post graduate program on mergers and acquisitions. He frequently publishes and holds speeches on arbitration and litigation-related topics.


435845

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Oil & Gas
  • Renewable Energy
  • Hydrogen
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Offshore Wind

Dr. Werner Brickwedde, LL.M. (University of London) Partner

Dusseldorf

While Werner’s corporate and M&A experience spans a broad range of industries, he has built a strong focus on and deep knowledge of the Energy & Infrastructure sector. His experience extends to acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, complex shareholder arrangements and project agreements of a variety of alternative energy and sustainability projects, including offshore wind, storage and mobility.

Werner also has extensive experience in project development, including advising on Operations & Maintenance and energy-related projects, particularly upstream and midstream. His in-depth understanding of how these projects fit together and how risk is allocated enables him to provide commercial, forward-looking advice on complex, cross-border transactions.

Werner is recommended in Germany for energy transactions (JUVE 2022/2023, Legal 500 2023), M&A (JUVE 2022/2023, Legal 500 2024, Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers 2023/24. WirtschaftsWoche 2023) and corporate law (WirtschaftsWoche 2021).