Jasmine W Zhu IP Attorney, Propriété intellectuelle
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Jasmine’s litigation experience includes assisting with patent licensing negotiations, assisting with trial and witness preparation, drafting motions, petitions, oppositions, and replies, and preparing expert reports.
Jasmine has experience with a wide range of technologies including telecommunications, semiconductors, client/server systems, computer software, electronic commerce, cloud computing, virtual and augmented reality, streaming media, Internet search engines, search advertising, electronic devices, medical devices, optics and imaging.
Prior to joining Orrick, Jasmine externed at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Jasmine was also a patent agent specializing in patent prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and she worked with foreign attorneys to prosecute patents before foreign patent offices. She has advised clients on new patent applications and prosecution strategies and managed clients’ domestic and global patent portfolios.
Dusseldorf
Benedikt advises on structuring and negotiating the IP aspects of corporate transactions, including M&A, divestments and venture investments as well as of commercial transactions where intellectual property rights and know-how are key assets. His work encompasses, for example, IP licensing and technology transfer agreements, engineering services agreements, transition services agreements, R&D collaborations, and IP aspects of contracts throughout the life sciences sector.
Benedikt is also an experienced patent and trade secret litigator and has represented German and international clients from a range of industries in complex disputes, especially concerning patents and know-how in the fields of mobile telecommunication/connectivity and the life sciences.
Based on his extensive experience in both IP transactions and litigation, he deeply understands the full range of legal and economical issues that technology-driven companies are challenged with in context with IP. This also includes IP-related competition law issues, such as FRAND-requirements for licensing and enforcing standard essential patents as well as issues arising in connection with EU regulations concerning technology transfers.
Dusseldorf
She advises companies in all stages of growth, from pre-IPO start-ups to unicorns and investors to international corporations on a wide range of labor law matters. In addition to day-to-day employment law advice, this includes assisting companies with complex transactions, restructurings, and redundancies.
Her practice also focuses on employment law issues, such as employee leasing, service contracts for the management board or advice in the conclusion and negotiation of shop agreements.
Most recently, she has advised leading global technology companies such as Pinterest and Snap on various labor law issues and has been an important contact for many young technology companies since their foundation.
Marianna has been with Orrick since 2019.
Dusseldorf; Munich
André advises companies of all stages, pre-IPO startups, scaleups, unicorns and international corporations on a wide range of matters, having handled everything from day-to-day practical advice tailored to his clients’ needs, to complex multi-jurisdictional transactions from strategic planning through post-merger integration. Having long-standing experience in negotiating with works councils and unions in restructuring measures of all kind, a special focus of André's practice is on restructurings and headcount reductions.
He has advised on the employment law aspects in over 300 M&A transactions and financing rounds across various industries. Transactional advice includes employment law advice in complex, international technology transactions, M&A projects as well as private equity and venture capital investments, from due diligence to post-closing integration.
André has thorough knowledge of and a genuine passion for the tech industry. Over the last years, André has become the go-to-advisor of several Bay Area tech-companies, leaders in their market and high-growth tech companies. Most recently, he has advised leading global technology companies such as GoPro, Pinterest, GitHub, Nvidia, Sabre, Snap and Splunk on various employment matters.
André has received several awards for his work, inter alia:
Clients recommend André to JUVE as “straight shooter" and "always refreshingly honest". Our clients praise his "creative and efficient style of working" and "a very practical and efficient style of providing advice", referring to him as "extremely responsive and always accessible" and as "an excellent advocate in court hearings". Clients appreciate André's "clear, sound and pragmatic real-world advice" and his "in-depth knowledge of the tech employment world".
Munich
Prior to joining Orrick, Stefan worked in another international law firm in Munich as well as in Charlotte, NC.
Munich
She acts on corporate transactions including leveraged buy-outs, management buy-outs, minority participations and expansion or growth financings as well as M&A transactions, often with cross-border aspects.
Before joining Orrick, she had been an associate in the private equity group of a U.S. headquartered law firm. As part of her legal clerkship, Maria worked for another U.S. law firm and a leading German law firm, among others.
Dusseldorf
His background in economics, Chinese language skills and extensive international experience add to his excellent legal knowledge and allow him to advise his clients on a comprehensive basis.
Lars has represented clients before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office in all areas of competition law, inter alia including mergers, compliance, cartels, litigation and abuse of dominance.
In these areas, he provides companies with innovative solutions on high-profile complex matters including private damages actions and cartel investigations, often involving multiple jurisdictions.
Lars also pursues international trade and compliance matters, including matters involving foreign investment filings in Germany.
Santa Monica
Santa Monica
Aaliya's practice focuses on general corporate counseling and venture capital financings. She represents innovative startups in a wide variety of industries and venture capital firms in their investments in technology companies.
Prior to her career in corporate law, Aaliya worked in the public interest field as a paralegal at a deportation defense and asylum relief immigration law firm.
Paris
Recommandé par les guides Chambers France et Legal 500 EMEA en Fusions-Acquisitions, Alexis conseille d’importants groupes et sociétés français et internationaux, cotés ou non cotés, des fonds de private equity, des hedge funds, et des dirigeants, des conseils d’administration et des familles.
Il conseille ainsi notamment sur des investissements et désinvestissements, des émissions de titres, des opérations complexes et transfrontalières, des négociations stratégiques et des contentieux sensibles. Il est "l’un des meilleurs intervenants sur le marché » (Legal 500). Il est aussi reconnu pour son expertise sur les enjeux liés à la gouvernance, aux restructurations, ainsi que sur les problématiques de conflits et d'activisme.
Alexis est intervenu sur certains dossiers emblématiques en France, et a conseillé notamment SFL et son management dans la fusion transfrontalière avec Colonial, Herige dans la cession de ses activités de négoce à Samse, BAE Systems dans l'acquisition d'Eurostep, les fonds Alcentra et Fidera dans leur investissement dans Pierre & Vacances, Air France-KLM dans ses relations avec KLM et l’Etat Néerlandais, Veolia dans l’acquisition de Suez, LVMH dans l’acquisition de Tiffany, Oeneo dans le cadre de l'OPAS de son actionnaire de contrôle, Naturex dans le cadre de l’OPA de Givaudan, le conseil d’administration de Zodiac à l’occasion de son rapprochement avec Safran, Euro Disney à raison de l’OPA de The Walt Disney Company, L’Oréal lors du rachat de ses propres actions (8% de son capital) auprès de Nestlé et la cession de sa participation dans Galderma, Metrovacesa sur la cession de sa participation au capital de Gecina ou encore le Club Méditerranée dans le cadre de l'OPA du conglomérat chinois Fosun.
Alexis Marraud des Grottes intervient également sur des dossiers relatifs à des émissions de jetons et de crypto-monnaies ou de crypto-actifs, y compris pour structurer et mettre en place des entités émettrices et les services associés.
Alexis est un acteur de premier plan, reconnu pour ses publications, conférences et formations sur le droit boursier, la gouvernance et les fusions-acquisitions. Il intervient régulièrement à l'EM Lyon et à l'Université Paris Dauphine. Il a été membre de plusieurs groupes de travail de place dont le groupe de travail sur l'offre au public du haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris. L’Autorité des marchés financiers - AMF l’a invité à devenir membre de sa Commission Consultative Emetteurs en tant que spécialiste des questions de droit boursier.
New York
Ben has a deep understanding of sanctions and AML regulations and enforcement. In addition to his client work, he has participated in numerous financial industry group regulatory initiatives related to sanctions and AML issues, including The Clearing House Guiding Principles for Anti-Money Laundering Policies and Procedures in Correspondent Banking, initiatives to address “de-risking” and related to BSA information sharing. Ben also conducts international trainings in AML and sanctions issues for the Financial Services Volunteer Corps.
He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America as "One to Watch" and by Super Lawyers as a "Rising Star." Prior to joining Orrick, Ben was counsel at Buckley LLP and an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
Washington, D.C.
The breadth and depth of Bob's appellate experience, and his consistent track record of success in high-stakes matters, are why clients, including top tech and energy companies, trust him with their most important cases.
The National Law Journal’s Litigator of the Week column recently recognized Bob’s appellate major wins in energy and product liability cases for Broadreach Power and Johnson & Johnson. Bob’s recent victories also include Fifth Circuit wins for energy clients Cheniere and Eni. In the Cheniere-Midship case, Bob obtained an emergency stay from the court of appeals of the regulating agency proceedings and, then after oral argument, achieved a full victory. And for Eni, Bob convinced the Fifth Circuit to vacate a $300M judgment against Eni in a dispute with another energy company. These types of big wins in the most challenging cases show why both Chambers and Legal 500 rank Bob among the Country’s top appellate advocates.
Bob has argued before the Supreme Court multiple times (including a 9-0 victory regarding application of the Fourth Amendment to rental cars), and has filed hundreds of briefs in the Supreme Court. He has also handled cases in highest state courts in California, New York, Maine, Kentucky and New Jersey.
Before joining Orrick, Bob served as one of the leaders of an elite appellate group at the Department of Justice. There, in addition to major national security, commercial, and administrative law, Bob supervised bankruptcy appeals. At Orrick, Bob has continued to handle big ticket bankruptcy matters, such as a billion-dollar dispute over whether DHL’s claim was discharged by United’s bankruptcy, appeals from the City of Stockton bankruptcy confirmation, and a Ninth Circuit matter involving the interplay of the Takings Clause and bankruptcy law.
Bob’s recent work includes matters for Johnson & Johnson, Avon, Microsoft, Eni, Cheniere Energy, Freeport LNG, Broadreach Power, LS Power, Exxon, Medidata, Renco, MSC Cruise Line, Golden 1 Credit Union, Credit Suisse, TravelCenters of America, Gannett, and the City of Stockton.
Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth's experience includes work on internal investigations, voluntary disclosures, commodity jurisdiction requests and developing and implementing compliance programs. She also advises clients on government contracting matters.