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740

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Real Estate

Dr. Stefan Renner Partner

Dusseldorf; Munich

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

309001

Practice:

  • Propriété intellectuelle

David R. Medina Senior Associate

Los Angeles

David develops strategies to protect his client’s bold innovations, whether assisting one of the world's leading technology companies, or a mobile gaming start-up. He offers intellectual property counseling and litigation, including patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret matters.

Before joining Orrick, David served as a law clerk to the Honorable Nora Barry Fischer in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Prior to his clerkship, David served as a full-time extern to the Honorable Kathleen O'Malley at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

David also spent a year working in-house for Panasonic Corporation, stationed near Panasonic's Osaka, Japan headquarters.

Practice:

  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • International Trade and Investment
  • FDA & Healthcare Regulatory

Scott Cohn Senior Counsel

New York

Scott's work involving regulatory compliance includes: 

  • Product Recalls
  • Product Safety Evaluations
  • Compliance Manuals
  • Made in USA claims
  • California Proposition 65 Warnings and defense of Notices of Violation
  • Due Diligence regulatory reviews
  • Civil and Criminal Investigations and Penalties
  • FDA Import Alerts
  • FPLA (Fair Packaging and Labeling Act) requirements
  • Textile, Wool, Fur, and Care Labeling requirements
  • U.S. Customs Country of Origin Labeling requirements
  • U.S. Customs tariff classification and valuation for imported products
  • Autonomous Vehicle regulation
  • U.S. Fish& Wildlife Service and CITES compliance

439930

Practice:

  • Oil & Gas
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy & Infrastructure

Sarafina Joseph Associate

Chicago

Her practice focuses on complex commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and project finance for both debt and tax equity financing. 

Ari Roytenberg Senior Associate

New York

Ari's experience includes supervising cases through all phases of litigation, from pre-litigation strategy through appeal. Most recently, Ari served as lead counsel to an aerospace defense company in litigation that began in New York State court and continued through a six-month trial in bankruptcy court in connection with a $1.3 billion restructuring transaction. His courtroom advocacy, briefing strategies, and fact and expert depositions have helped secure favorable outcomes to a number of clients involved in high-stakes disputes.

Before joining Orrick, Ari was an associate with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and served as a law clerk to Judge Richard M. Berman on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

320059

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
  • Propriété intellectuelle
  • Trade Secrets Litigation

Amy Van Zant Partner

Silicon Valley

For her litigation practice, Amy’s ability to distill the most complicated technology across an array of fields, including telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing, renewable energy, cloud computing, and big data, into relatable, every day concepts that has made her successful in persuading judges and juries alike. She has led trial teams, litigated, and tried cases in state court in California, numerous District Courts, the International Trade Commission, and has briefed appeals before the 9th Circuit, the Federal Circuit, the Supreme Court of California, and the United States Supreme Court. 

Whether litigating patent, trade secret, or IP contract disputes, Amy strives to put herself in her client’s shoes to ensure personalized results tailored to each client’s business objectives. As SAP’s General Counsel Landon Edmond commented to Acritas, Amy “has acquired a great knowledge of our business, and therefore you know you can trust her in a wide variety of topics and to get the right colleagues within her firm involved across the globe.”

Amy also provides comprehensive IP counseling on issues including trade secrets protection, employee departure investigations, freedom to operate analysis, licensing strategies, data privacy protection, and regulatory compliance. She has also conducted comprehensive patent portfolio reviews and assisted with IP corporate transactions.

In addition to her IP work, Amy devotes significant time to her pro bono work. For more than a decade, she has assisted domestic violence victims, as well as led Orrick’s Bay Area summer program that enables law clerks to be certified to argue in Family Court to obtain Temporary Restraining Orders for domestic violence clients.

740

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation

Katie E. Briscoe Partner

Sacramento

Katie collaborates with employers to resolve challenging litigation and avoid risky compliance issues. She defends employers against PAGA, class, multi-plaintiff, and single plaintiff actions involving a variety of claims ranging from complex wage and hour disputes to contentious discrimination and harassment claims. Katie has jury trial experience and practices before a variety of forums, including state and federal trial courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and private arbitration and mediation. She understands the challenges that employers face and helps them to navigate ever-changing state, federal, and local laws. Katie has significant experience litigating and advising on wage and hour issues; exempt/non-exempt classification; discrimination, harassment, and retaliation; arbitration agreements; independent contractor classification; business expense reimbursement; compensation; Section 17200, and more. She also works with clients to resolve employment disputes prior to litigation.

Katie earned her J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif.

Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Technology Companies Group

Ginevra Rebecchini Senior Associate

Milan

Based in the Milan office, she advises both investors and companies (including startups and scale-ups) on structuring and executing transactions across a wide range of industries, with a particular emphasis on the technology and innovation sectors.

Thanks to her broad experience and strong technical skills, Ginevra supports clients throughout the entire corporate lifecycle, providing strategic guidance on both domestic and cross-border matters.

She has significant experience advising on financing rounds for early to late-stage technology companies, as well as on private equity investments and growth capital transactions. Her work spans sectors such as digital health, artificial intelligence, agritech, enterprise software, and consumer tech.

She regularly advises institutional investors and high-growth companies in structuring deals and navigating complex regulatory and governance issues in Italy and internationally.

Ginevra also counsels clients on M&A transactions, including acquisitions of strategic assets and controlling interests in high-growth businesses. Her experience includes deals across various sectors, including insurance, mobility, and SaaS, often involving dynamic, tech-driven targets and cross-border elements.

Mark Franke Of Counsel

New York; Boston

Recognized as a rising star by Super Lawyers and the Legal 500, the market has increasingly turned to Mark for advice on matters across a variety of industries, including aviation, shipping, oil & gas, chemicals, renewable energy, digital assets, agriculture & farming, construction & engineering, telecommunications, sports, commercial real estate, entertainment and leisure, and digital and traditional media.

Mark is highly practical, placing emphasis on commercial solutions to disputes while also at home in contentious litigation and contested motion practice. He thrives in contexts that require engineering creative approaches to problems involving multiple players with competing interests. In all things, he prioritizes relational and intellectual integrity with his colleagues and adversaries.

740

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Propriété intellectuelle
  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Patents
  • Contentieux complexes & Résolution des litiges

Diana M. Rutowski Partner

Silicon Valley

As a seasoned IP litigator and counselor, Diana’s practice has run the gamut from high stakes trials, to take-down and anti-counterfeiting campaigns, to employee departure and trade secret investigations. She represents clients in District and state courts and before administrative bodies including the ITC and the USPTO. For example, Diana tried and won a complex case in which the other side sought to extend the monopoly of an expired utility patent by claiming trade dress rights in a technical product feature. Drawing upon experience handling both complex patent and trademark matters, her team successfully argued that the intersection of patent and trademark policy prevented the other side from continuing its monopoly, clearing the way for her client to enter the market. With Diana at their side, companies can rest assured that their essential assets are protected, from their core technologies, to assets including their company name, logo, and website.

While at Orrick, Diana was seconded to the City and County of San Francisco, where she had the privilege to serve as an Assistant District Attorney, and first-chair several trials. She was also seconded to Salesforce, where she learned first-hand that the law comprises just one component of a company’s overall business strategy.

Diana is also passionate about her pro bono work. For example, she represented two detainees in Guantanamo in connection with their petitions for a writ of habeas corpus, and she is currently working with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining the firm, Diana worked for the Legal Aid of Cambodia where she assisted with the prosecution of former Khmer Rouge officials and represented individuals who sought to reclaim land rights.

Diana is a member of the International Trademark Association, of ChIPs: Advancing Women in IP and of the Harvard Club of San Francisco.

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Real Estate

Robin L Freedman Senior Associate

New York

Her practice encompasses all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, equity investments and financings, joint ventures and leasing. She is skilled at drafting documents that bring complicated deal points to life.

Robin strongly believes in community engagement and is active in a local non-profit that provides shelter and services to the homeless in New York City.