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- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Technology Companies Group
- Fintech
Jason Grube Managing Associate
Seattle
Jason is a member of Orrick's technology companies practice group. He works with both early-stage and late-stage companies and assists with all aspects of formation and venture capital financing. He provides advice to companies seeking exit transactions such as mergers & acquisitions, initial public offerings, or SPAC transactions. Jason also advises investors planning to invest in tech companies in various industries and markets.
Prior to joining Orrick, Jason served in the U.S. Army as an Infantry officer and as a Military Intelligence officer.
Practice:
- Finance Sector
- Public Finance
- Real Estate
Jesse Paul Albani Senior Associate
San Francisco
Jesse regularly serves as bond counsel for multifamily housing, student housing and waste-to-energy facility financings. His recent experience includes the development and implementation of a successful tax-exempt financing program for the creation and preservation of affordable housing for middle-income families and individuals across California. In addition, Jesse frequently assists issuers, underwriters and developers with the structuring and financing of nonprofit and general governmental transactions throughout the United States.
Jesse also serves on the Board of Governors for The University of San Francisco School of Law.
Practice:
- Restructuring
- Real Estate
- Securities Litigation
- UK
Prav Reddy Partner
Londra
Prav is experienced in cross-border and international insolvency, guiding clients through complex bankruptcy challenges. He understands the unique needs of banks in enforcement work, particularly in Law of Property Act (LPA) receiverships. Beyond corporate matters, he specialises in personal insolvency, with a strong focus on asset recovery and resolving disputes relating to trusts and beneficial interests.
Tyler Dorf Managing Associate
New York
Tyler's practice has a focus on warehouse lending, secured credit facilities, and publicly registered and privately placed asset securitization transactions. His experience extends to various asset classes, encompassing marketplace consumer loans, solar loans, residential mortgages, student loans, credit card and charge card receivables, auto loans, and esoteric assets, including proved developed producing (PDP) oil and gas wellbores.
Before joining Orrick, Tyler was an associate in Chapman and Cutler LLP's Asset Securitization Department.
Practice:
- Financial & Fintech Advisory
- Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement
- Fintech
- Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
Sherry-Maria Safchuk Partner
Santa Monica
Sherry’s clients include banks, mortgage originators and servicers, mortgage brokers, commercial lenders, bank holding companies, private equity firms, investment advisors, investment managers, finance companies, fintechs, consumer reporting agencies, data brokers, debt collection companies and related service providers.
She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), and was a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2016 class of Future Leaders and the California Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2014 class of Future Leaders.
Prior to joining Orrick, Sherry was a partner at Buckley LLP. She has been an associate in private practice. She also clerked for the Honorable Jeanette J. Clark in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy
- Potere
- Renewable Energy
- Wind Energy
- Solar Energy
- Responsible Business
- Petrolio e carburanti
- Infrastructure
Adam Griffin Partner
New York
He regularly advises sponsors, lenders, financial institutions and private equity investors in debt and equity financings and restructurings across the renewable energy, conventional energy and infrastructure sectors.
Andres Vega Managing Associate
Washington, D.C.
Andres Vega Managing Associate
Washington, D.C.
He regularly represents project developers and investors in energy project finance transactions, including tax equity and debt financing, M&A, joint ventures, project development and a broad range of corporate matters. His prior experience includes international and multijurisdictional financing and development of energy projects in Mexico and across Africa, including Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Nigeria, and Egypt.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Offshore Wind
- Renewable Energy
- Solar Energy
- Wind Energy
April Lord Senior Associate
Londra
April’s experience includes advising on acquisitions and disposals of solar farms and wind projects as well as on joint venture arrangements and other commercial contracts across a range of renewable and conventional energy companies.
Practice:
- Renewable Energy
- Energy
- Potere
- Petrolio e carburanti
- Infrastructure
- Energy & Infrastructure
Michael Tardif Partner
Singapore
Michael’s practice services a broad range of industry sectors, including conventional power, renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric), infrastructure, oil & gas and mining across Asia, Australia and the US. His project finance experience covers the complete toolkit of complex transactions from corporate and acquisition financing, structured/leveraged finance transactions and derivatives, including hedging arrangements.
Michael has notable experience in transactions involving multilateral lenders and export-credit agencies which are often crucial supporters of project financings in developing countries in the region.
Ranked in Band 1 in the Chambers Asia Pacific guide for Indonesia Projects & Energy lawyer for seven years in a row, Michael is also recognized as a “Leading Individual” by Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
Practice:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Technology Companies Group
Justin Montis Senior Associate
Santa Monica
Justin advises public and private companies and private equity funds and their portfolio companies on various strategic transactions, including leveraged buyouts, dispositions, carveouts, growth equity investments and secondary transactions, and other general corporate matters.
Practice:
- Finance Sector
- Finanziamenti sviluppo industriale e controllo dell'inquinamento e dei rifiuti solidi
- Renewable Energy
- Finanziamenti istruzione di secondo grado e prestiti agli studenti
- Finanziamenti potere pubblico
- Finanziamenti società no profit
John Wang Partner
San Francisco
John advises issuers, borrowers and underwriters on financings for higher education, solid waste disposal (including waste-to-energy facilities), and utilities (including water, wastewater and energy facilities). He actively advises clients in such financings on a national basis, including in California, Hawaii, Guam, Nevada and Texas.
John has been recognized as a leading lawyer by multiple organizations, including as a Chambers USA, Band 2 attorney for California Public Finance, and as one of California's top 50 development lawyers by The Daily Journal.
Practice:
- Finance Sector
- Public Finance
- Restructuring
- Finanziamenti potere pubblico
- Derivatives
Neil Wolk Senior Counsel
New York
Neil has spent the bulk of his career working on both tax-exempt and taxable financings for public power clients including joint action agencies, municipal utilities and rural electric cooperatives. He has had many roles in these financings including bond counsel, counsel to the underwriters and counsel to credit enhancers.
Over his career, Neil has worked on financings for joint action agencies and municipal utilities such as Gainesville (Florida) Regional Utilities, Intermountain Power Agency, JEA, Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company, Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission, Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power), Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and WPPI Energy. The transactions in which Neil has participated have included public offerings, private placements, system and project financings, tax-exempt and taxable financings, secured and unsecured debt, senior and subordinated debt, fixed rate and variable rate debt and derivatives and he has had extensive experience in drafting documents for all of these types of financings. In addition, he has considerable experience with all types of disclosure issues encountered by electric utilities.
Neil also has been involved in a number of transactions involving the acquisition of utility companies and/or utility properties.
Recently, Neil represented MEAG Power in the financing of its undivided ownership interest in the first new nuclear generating facilities constructed on U.S. soil in over 30 years, which involved both taxable and tax-exempt capital markets debt, along with U.S. Department of Energy-guaranteed debt, and which was selected by The Financial Times as one of the most Innovative Deals of 2011.
Before joining Orrick, Neil was a partner at Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon in New York.