Seth Norris Managing Associate, Energy & Infrastructure, Energy
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Prior to Orrick, Seth worked as a legal intern for the Beijing office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he conducted research on international environmental permitting standards, and as a consultant for a Boston-based energy & infrastructure holding company, where he advised on globalization and work force optimization strategies for a wind turbine services business.
Los Angeles
Will’s clients include developers, investors, lenders and contractors engaged in transactions related to energy transition and infrastructure decarbonization projects across the U.S. Their experience includes diverse financing structures such as joint ventures, tax equity and cash equity investments, direct lending and mezzanine debt financing, as well as drafting and negotiating project development, equipment purchase and sale, and power purchase agreements.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Steve serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel in a variety of municipal enterprise revenue bond issuances, including financing for water, wastewater, solid waste and airport facilities. His practice is, in addition, focused on single family and multifamily affordable housing financings. Steve also has extensive experience in higher education financings, interest rate swaps and swap based products in the municipal market. He often assumes a leading role in bond and disclosure work for new and complex clients.
Düsseldorf
Alexander has many years of experience in advising national and international energy suppliers, global corporations and institutional investors across the entire value chain in the energy sector.
His work primarily involves advising on offshore wind, onshore wind, photovoltaic, and battery storage projects. He supports clients through all phases of a project, from establishing joint ventures for collaborative project development to acquiring project pipelines and investing in existing projects.
During a secondment, Alexander served a leading institutional investor specializing in infrastructure investments. He is recognized by Legal 500 Germany for his expertise in energy transactions (2023).
Alexander also advises on the drafting and negotiation of long-term power supply agreements (PPAs) for the procurement of electricity from renewable energy sources and on the associated regulatory and supervisory issues.
He has also advised on a large number of fundamental issues in the energy industry and represented clients in official and court proceedings. These include matters such as remuneration for power plant operators for redispatch measures, maintaining operational readiness of system-relevant coal-fired power plants, and the regulation of hydrogen networks.
San Francisco
He conducts a broad federal tax practice in large corporate transactions and reorganizations, corporate finance and partnership, including pre-acquisition tax structuring. He also has substantial experience in executive compensation tax planning, exempt organizations and federal tax controversies, and has written on related tax topics.
Los Angeles
New York
Paige represents large corporations, public entities, and individuals in high-stakes matters in federal and state courts nationwide. She manages and litigates complex matters, including class actions, multi-district litigations, and cases set for trial. Much of Paige's work focuses on cases alleging exposures to or economic harm from various chemicals, including pesticides, herbicides, PFAS, and chemicals with industrial applications.
Paige effectively argues motions, takes depositions, manages discovery, drafts briefs, and negotiates settlements. Paige has participated in successful jury trials and has delivered constructive presentations to government actors. She was named a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Dedicated to her active pro bono practice, Paige has led a class of detained individuals seeking to remedy constitutional rights violations and has assisted individuals in their efforts to navigate immigration laws. Paige was honored as an Excellent Pro Bono Attorney for her work on mandamus petitions with the International Refugee Assistance Project.
From 2017-2018, Paige served as a law clerk for the Honorable Dora L. Irizarry, Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Prior to clerking, Paige worked as an associate at a global law firm, engaged in complex commercial litigation, arbitrations, and investigations.
Londra
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.
Düsseldorf
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.
New York
With more than 25 years of experience, Adam counsels high-growth companies from formation through exit, guiding them on financings, IPOs, M&A, and other strategic transactions. He regularly works with founders, management teams, and boards on corporate governance and day-to-day matters, as well as structuring and negotiating complex deals.
Adam also represents venture capital, growth equity, and private equity investors in their portfolio investments and exits. His practice spans both buy-side and sell-side M&A, joint ventures, and strategic collaborations across the technology and life sciences sectors.
New York
Hana has worked on a broad range of matters at the federal and state court level, as well as in arbitration, from pre-litigation strategy to trial. Her experience encompasses disputes involving trademark, trade secrets, arbitral enforcement, consumer class action, employment, mass torts, and breach of contract claims.
Hana also continues to maintain an active pro bono practice at both the national and international level. Prior to Orrick, Hana worked at two large law firms, where she focused on complex commercial litigation, international arbitration, and sanctions compliance.
Seattle; Washington, D.C.
A former Washington State Attorney General and President of the National Association of Attorneys General, Rob is accomplished in all areas of public policy, appellate law and investigations. He is a Chambers USA Band 1 Partner in Government Relations: State Attorneys General.
Rob represents a wide range of technology, energy, finance and other companies in matters involving cyber security, data privacy, litigation, appellate litigation, regulatory proceedings, state attorney general investigations and legislative issues. His experience, stature and proficiency add essential capabilities for clients seeking coordinated policy advocacy, regulatory compliance and litigation strategies in state capitols across the country and in Washington, D.C., where he has testified before Congress and assisted clients who have been called to testify before Congressional committees. While at Orrick, Rob has represented clients in both state and federal court, typically in cases centered on constitutional questions.
Rob served two terms as Attorney General of Washington, from 2005 to 2013. He successfully argued three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and helped negotiate three of the largest consumer protection settlements in national history, all involving mortgage lending and servicing. He is a recognized leader in the development of data protection and privacy regulation. Rob was the first state Attorney General to build a computer forensics lab to collect evidence of Internet fraud and passed one of the nation's first anti-spyware laws.
Rob served as President of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) from 2011–12 where he co-launched the NAAG Intellectual Property Task Force to advance the national fight against counterfeiting and piracy. While serving as NAAG President, he created and led a national initiative to combat human trafficking which continues to this day. The NAAG human trafficking summit he hosted in Seattle in 2012 led AGs to launch state-level initiatives around the country. His fellow attorneys general honored him in 2011 with the Kelley-Wyman Award for “Outstanding Attorney General” in America.