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Our London team focuses on serving our four sectors; technology & innovation, energy & infrastructure, finance and life sciences & healthtech – providing transactional, regulatory and dispute resolution support to help our clients disrupt, grow, innovate and succeed. We collaborate with Orrick teams worldwide to support our clients’ needs.

Venture Capital & Growth Equity

As Europe’s tech ecosystem matures and innovates, we are helping the most disruptive companies thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic landscape. As a leading international legal adviser to high-growth companies and investors within the venture capital community, our team has dominated the European market ranking No.1 by deal volume since 2015 (PitchBook).

Our venture capital team advises companies and investors at all stages of growth from incubation through to exit. With our deep roots in Silicon Valley and our teams based in the world’s major tech hubs, we leverage our extensive network and provide commercial insight on financings and investments for our clients.

Our clients include the world's largest tech companies, domestic and international "unicorns", and both early-stage and high growth companies in highly developing sectors such as fintech, AI and life sciences.

Energy & Infrastructure

We offer a comprehensive global Energy & Infrastructure platform – working across renewables, power, oil & gas and infrastructure. Clients turn to us for revolutionary projects in energy transition and energy technology, and we guide them in the development of some of the most impactful infrastructure modernization projects across the planet.

Our top-ranked, award-winning Offshore Wind team acts for leading sponsors, ECAs, lenders and investors in complex projects across Europe, the US and Asia. We represent some of the largest, most active and influential global players in the industry on first-of-a-kind matters and have led the way in developing cutting-edge, innovative structures that have helped to shape industry standards. We combine market-leading transactional, litigation and regulatory experts across the continent, with our team located in London, Paris and Düsseldorf.

Finance

As the global finance sector adapts and responds to the economic, political and regulatory landscape, our team is providing active counsel to top credit providers and borrowers on sophisticated credit and corporate financing opportunities.

We act for traditional financial institutions, funds and asset managers, private equity sponsors, and fintech companies on acquisition and leveraged financings, high-yield and structured financings, asset-based projects, securitisations, restructurings, licensing, authorisations, and project and energy finance. Our team regularly handles conduct of business requirements and compliance in relation to regulatory investigations and provides strategic advice around future legislation.

Life Sciences & Healthtech

We help life sciences, biopharma, healthtech, medical device, digital health and healthcare innovation providers protect their innovations, scale and invest. Clients include 12 of the 20 largest biopharma companies by market cap in the U.S. and 350+ venture-backed companies and leading investors in the sector. Orrick provides holistic advice on venture and strategic financings, IP and regulatory considerations, and brings the technical knowledge to understand life sciences clients’ inventions and how to explain them to juries and judges.

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Mergers, Acquisitions & Private Equity

Our top-ranked team is well-versed in coordinating complex cross-border transactions for buyers, sellers and funds in relation to share and asset leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing agreements, group reorganisations, private equity exits and portfolio company representations.

Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation

One of the very few firms with a dedicated team of litigators in Europe focused exclusively on defending businesses and their executives against global privacy and cyber risk, we help companies manage their global compliance requirements, as well as their cyber and privacy incident response, litigation and regulatory enforcement exposure in the UK and EU. Collaborating with our premier US Chambers Band 1-ranked team which has pioneered this field for the past decade, we have experience handling high-profile regulatory investigations and disputes involving international regulators and agencies, including the UK FCA, SFO and ICO, and the US DOJ, FBI, FTC and SEC. We act on behalf of number clients who are subject to ICO investigations including FTSE listed data insights companies, financial services institutions and technology companies on wide-ranging data protection issues.

Litigation, Disputes & International Arbitration

A truly international practice, long-recognised by the Global Arbitration Review as one of the top 30 firms in the world, our leading team protects the interests of businesses, high net worth individuals, multinationals and nation states.

We regularly handle large domestic disputes in the English Courts, in addition to high-value complex, multijurisdictional litigation, investment treaty and commercial arbitrations before all major arbitral institutions. We assist with internal investigations and advise on regulatory compliance, contractual and corporate partnership disputes, executive liability for corporate negligence and trademark infringements.

Capital Markets

Our team advises UK and global public and late stage private companies, entrepreneurs and underwriters on accessing international capital markets. Offering a combination of English and US law we guide our clients through debt and equity issues, including IPOs and secondary fundraisings on the Main Market and AIM, as well as private placements and domiciliation for the purposes of fundraising.

Employee Share Schemes

Our team advises on the full range of employee incentive matters, including structuring and implementing the equity incentive arrangements of private and public companies and multinational groups. We have extensive experience supporting venture-backed companies and their investors throughout their lifecycle and regularly advise on strategic M&A transactions and IPO mandates.

Technology Transactions

Our multidisciplinary Technology Transactions team advises on complex commercial and technology transactions, technology services agreements and intellectual property matters. We have deep experience in the Commercial and IP aspects of innovation and technology driven companies including complex corporate transactions for financial investors, private equity and strategics.

Antitrust and Competition

Our experienced team offers innovative solutions on complex, cross-border matters involving merger control and clearance aspects of transactions, private damages actions, behavioural cases and investigations. We are a leading authority on private damages actions and advised on the first private antitrust damages action to reach trial in the UK. In collaboration with our Brussels office, we regularly appear before the European Commission and the Competition and Markets Authority.

Employment

Our team serves as strategic counsel to many of the world's most prestigious and innovative employers offering strategic and pragmatic solutions for contentious and transactional employment and human resource matters. Clients come to us as counsel of choice for sensitive, high-exposure matters, including redundancies, remuneration and equal pay decisions, employee misconduct, discrimination, harassment and whistleblowing.

Tax

Our team advises clients on all aspects of corporate tax, with a focus on domestic and international corporate and finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and reorganisations, in addition to advice relating to tax disputes, funds and investment structures.

Pro Bono Leader

Our London office is a leading example of our firm-wide commitment to making a social impact through our award-winning pro bono practice. Each year close to 100% of our lawyers contribute at least 20 hours of pro bono (and many much more!) and Law.com/AmLaw has consistently ranked Orrick in the top #5 for Pro Bono internationally since 2021. We not only provide charities and social enterprises with legal advice and assistance, but also run a significant number of ongoing access to justice pro bono projects assisting vulnerable individuals in our local community. We run these in partnership with law centres and legal NGOs that provide comprehensive training and supervision, so we are able to help with a wide range of issues, for example supporting adults with learning disabilities and mental health difficulties with welfare benefits tribunal appeals and charging disputes; advocating for terminally ill children and their families in areas of social housing and community care; and preparing exceptional case funding and family reunion applications for asylum seekers and refugees. Our lawyers can also get involved in interesting regional and international projects, such as supporting NGOs to complete applications to the European Court of Human Rights.

Innovation

As one of the world’s most innovative and forward-thinking law firms, Orrick in London is constantly looking at ways to improve the delivery of legal services and deliver greater value to clients. For the ninth year in a row, we have been recognised by the Financial Times as a Top 10 Law Firm for Innovation.

We partner with like-minded organisations that promote innovation within our core sectors. We host regular initiatives with London Enterprise Tech which fosters innovation in the London enterprise technology ecosystem through championing early stage technology companies, supporting entrepreneurs, educating companies on how to work with enterprises, and creating an environment where entrepreneurs, investors and businesses can work together.