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Maxence Jonvel Senior Associate

Parigi

Admitted to practice in Paris and New York, Maxence brings an international perspective to his practice, focusing on aspects of French and EU competition law, including both transactional and litigation cases : merger control, antitrust, and state aid. He also has experience in the field of French restrictive and unfair practices.

Prior to joining Orrick as an associate, Maxence was a legal intern in a San Francisco-based law firm specialized in business immigration law. He previously interned with the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission and with the energy department of Becker Büttner Held (Brussels office).

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. 

Amy M. Joseph Partner

Boston

Amy works with digital health companies, health systems and other public and private companies—from new entrants to seasoned organizations—to address regulatory compliance and transactional needs. She also advises investors and collaborates with clients to understand their business goals and tailor practical solutions to help them achieve those objectives. Amy is well-versed in the corporate governance, data privacy, and security and scope-of-practice considerations facing the healthcare industry as it incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) solutions into clinical workflows. Her practice includes structuring and scaling national telehealth practices across a range of clinical disciplines, including complex collaborative arrangements involving labs, medical device manufacturers, remote patient monitoring solutions and pharmacies.

Amy spends much of her time working with clients on vetting and developing strategic affiliations, joint venture transactions and other novel business arrangements, including developing value-based enterprises and otherwise identifying means to achieve further alignment among stakeholders. She advises on reimbursement issues with respect to federal healthcare programs, private payors and self-pay business models. She also helps develop compliance programs and advises on related protocols and best practices.

In particular, Amy advises on physician self-referral, anti-kickback and other fraud and abuse law matters as well as on patient privacy matters, including HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2 and corresponding state-level compliance. Amy also assists with internal investigations and assessing and responding to the results, including developing corrective action recommendations and self-disclosures.

A sought-after speaker and prolific writer on some of the most complex and critical issues in healthcare law, Amy shares her insights in publications and presentations across the country. She co-authored chapters in numerous publications, including the telemedicine chapter of the American Bar Association’s Physician Law: Evolving Trends & Hot Topics and a chapter addressing telehealth in the MCLE Massachusetts Health and Hospital Law Manual.

Chambers USA notes that Amy has “deep expertise in matters that impact healthcare providers and healthcare transactions,” “is a terrific resource on a range of regulatory issues” and “an expert in the Stark Law.”

Amy graduated first in her class at UCLA Law and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Prior to law school, Amy served in the U.S. Air Force.

Olivier Jouffroy Partner

Parigi

Olivier advises French and international clients on all aspects of corporate law. He mainly intervenes in national and international mergers and acquisitions (whether public or private M&A transactions), joint-venture and equity capital market transactions. He focuses in particular in the sectors of industry, financial institution (banks and insurance companies), energy and infrastructures, and real estate investments. He regularly advises French listed companies in connection with the preparation of their draft resolutions, the calling and holding of their shareholders’ meetings and their annual reports / URD.

He is recognized as a “rising star” in M&A in Legal 500 EMEA 2020, and a notable practitioner for M&A, private equity and ECM in IFLR 1000 since 2016.

According to Legal 500 EMEA 2019 & 2020, clients praise Olivier for being “very talented and hands-on” and “a very good professional who is able to manage pressure very well”.

Martin Jouvenot Managing Associate

Parigi

Martin’s practice focuses on debt financing transactions, including leveraged acquisition financings, for private credit funds, private equity sponsors, corporates and special situations funds.

Prior to joining Orrick, he was an associate at another leading US law firm

Jared Joyce-Schleimer Partner

New York

Jared’s practice focuses on debt financing of a broad range of domestic and cross-border renewable and conventional power, energy and infrastructure, satellite and telecommunications and transportation projects. He supports scaling into large projects and portfolios and commercializing new technology in clean energy, sustainable infrastructure and space.

Working with private equity sponsors, credit funds and portfolio companies, he has significant experience with a variety of finance structures, including development and construction financings and traditional project finance, subordinated and mezzanine financings, term loan B financings, direct lending, syndicated debt financings, private placements, climate and impact finance, acquisition financings, M&A and restructurings.  He has also represented debtors and creditors in restructuring matters.

Jared also maintains an active pro bono practice and assists developing countries in bringing sustainable projects to market. He has worked with representatives of Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Jamaica, Kenya and Vietnam on high-level sustainable project preparation and structuring matters.

Joseph Jung Associate

Orange County

Daniel Justice Senior Associate

San Francisco

These matters involved issues such as government contractor immunity to patent infringement; the effect of amendments to a patent licensing agreement; the effect of an expired utility patent for a chemical composition on the validity of a related trademark for medical implants; the copyrightability of short phrases and the merger doctrine; the copyrightability and fair use of religious materials; and multiple oppositions to office actions, and petitions to cancel trademark registrations to the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board.

Daniel has also worked on Internet-related matters involving the legal effect of “browsewrap” agreements; violations of Web page terms of use; the circumvention of technological barriers to access Web pages; violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; copyright issues related to cache copying of Web pages; the use of “spiders” to collect data from Web pages; the legality of “deep-linking” to web pages; and the legality of search engine aggregation and display of copyrighted Web pages.

Daniel has recently co-authored a scholarly article with Warrington S. Parker III entitled, "The Differing Approaches to Preemption Under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act" that was published in Volume 49, Issue 2 of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal. Daniel is also a contributing author to the NorCal IP Blog, which covers notable new intellectual property case filings and verdicts in the Northern District of California. Links to articles Daniel has authored can be found under the "Publications" section of this bio.

Jillian Victoria Kaltner Senior Associate

Silicon Valley

Before joining Orrick, Jillian clerked at the San Francisco Superior Court, where she honed her skills and passion for civil litigation. 

Jillian graduated Magna Cum Laude and Order of the Coif from UC Hastings College of the Law.  During law school, Jillian won multiple awards for both brief writing and oral advocacy with the school's nationally-ranked Moot Court program.  Jillian also served as the Executive Editor of the Hastings Women's Law Journal.  

Dr. Benedikt Kamann Associate

Düsseldorf

He advises companies on German and European antitrust and competition law, in particular on merger control, compliance, internal investigations, cartels and abuse of dominance.

Furthermore, Benedikt advises on foreign trade law issues, in particular on investment review proceedings before the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

Prior to joining Orrick, he worked as a research assistant at a leading German law firm and as a trainee lawyer in the antitrust team of a leading international law firm, at a U.S. law firm in its Los Angeles office, and at the German Federal Parliament in the department for EU policy issues.

Jamie Kamen Baroff Senior Associate

New York

Jamie's practice focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, advising companies on formation and equity financings, and corporate governance matters.

Larry Kane Partner

San Francisco

Larry's typical representations range from  formation and early stage corporate counseling, angel and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships to angel and venture fund formations and lending and other commercial transactions.   Larry's practice focus on a range of technology companies focused on education technology and education services, software and SAAS based businesses, consumer products to semiconductor businesses.