San Francisco
Palak has served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters’ counsel and issuer’s counsel on various types of financing structures including general obligation financings, tax and revenue anticipation financings, current and advance refundings, lease revenue financings, certificates of participation, and special tax financings for Mello Roos community facilities districts, school districts, community college districts, local government and state agency clients. Palak also represents investment banking institutions in governmental and qualified private activity bond transactions across industry segments.
Palak is a dual qualified attorney, licensed to practice law in California and India. Prior to joining Orrick, Palak worked with a law firm in New Delhi, India and represented governmental entities and private parties in international commercial arbitration and business disputes.
Londra
Chris is a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales with experience acting for and against States, commercial parties and individuals in commercial arbitration and litigation. He often works on cross-border disputes, spanning the UK, Canada, Peru, Brazil, Romania, Italy and France.
Chicago
Her practice focuses on complex commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and project finance for both debt and tax equity financing.
New York
Ari's experience includes supervising cases through all phases of litigation, from pre-litigation strategy through appeal. Most recently, Ari served as lead counsel to an aerospace defense company in litigation that began in New York State court and continued through a six-month trial in bankruptcy court in connection with a $1.3 billion restructuring transaction. His courtroom advocacy, briefing strategies, and fact and expert depositions have helped secure favorable outcomes to a number of clients involved in high-stakes disputes.
Before joining Orrick, Ari was an associate with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and served as a law clerk to Judge Richard M. Berman on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Silicon Valley
For her litigation practice, Amy’s ability to distill the most complicated technology across an array of fields, including telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing, renewable energy, cloud computing, and big data, into relatable, every day concepts that has made her successful in persuading judges and juries alike. She has led trial teams, litigated, and tried cases in state court in California, numerous District Courts, the International Trade Commission, and has briefed appeals before the 9th Circuit, the Federal Circuit, the Supreme Court of California, and the United States Supreme Court.
Whether litigating patent, trade secret, or IP contract disputes, Amy strives to put herself in her client’s shoes to ensure personalized results tailored to each client’s business objectives. As SAP’s General Counsel Landon Edmond commented to Acritas, Amy “has acquired a great knowledge of our business, and therefore you know you can trust her in a wide variety of topics and to get the right colleagues within her firm involved across the globe.”
Amy also provides comprehensive IP counseling on issues including trade secrets protection, employee departure investigations, freedom to operate analysis, licensing strategies, data privacy protection, and regulatory compliance. She has also conducted comprehensive patent portfolio reviews and assisted with IP corporate transactions.
In addition to her IP work, Amy devotes significant time to her pro bono work. For more than a decade, she has assisted domestic violence victims, as well as led Orrick’s Bay Area summer program that enables law clerks to be certified to argue in Family Court to obtain Temporary Restraining Orders for domestic violence clients.
Seattle
Emily focuses her practice on advising clients on a wide range of real estate finance matters, including commercial mortgage-backed securities, acquisitions, dispositions, and refinancing transactions. Her expertise extends to negotiating and drafting loan agreements, purchase and sale agreements, conducting due diligence, and ensuring compliance with local regulatory requirements. In addition to her work in the Real Estate Finance Group, Emily has also collaborated with Orrick’s Energy and Infrastructure team to help them navigate the real estate issues for solar and battery developments.
Emily is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and was previously a summer associate at Orrick.
Roma
Leonardo è esperto nelle aree relative a M&A, diritto societario e commerciale, corporate governance, e più in generale, nella strutturazione e negoziazione di operazioni straordinarie quali cessioni di partecipazioni, cessioni di azienda e di rami di azienda, fusioni, scissioni e spin offs, con attenzione particolare al settore del private equity. Assiste fondi di private equity, multinazionali, societa quotate e non quotate, imprenditori e manager. Ha acquisito significativa esperienza nell’assistenza ad acquirenti e venditori nel contesto di vendite dirette e di aste competitive nonchè nella gestione dei relativi processi negoziali.
Ha ottenuto un Dottorato di Ricerca in Diritto degli Affari dalla Luiss Guido Carli di Roma ed un Master Degree (LLM) in Corporate Law dalla New York University di New York ed è abilitato all’esercizio della professione forense in Italia.
New York
Wenlong represents sponsors, developers, lenders, equity investors and other financial institutions in financings, acquisitions and development of various energy and infrastructure assets, including renewable energy, power storage, digital infrastructure, among others.
Sacramento
Katie collaborates with employers to resolve challenging litigation and avoid risky compliance issues. She defends employers against PAGA, class, multi-plaintiff, and single plaintiff actions involving a variety of claims ranging from complex wage and hour disputes to contentious discrimination and harassment claims. Katie has jury trial experience and practices before a variety of forums, including state and federal trial courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and private arbitration and mediation. She understands the challenges that employers face and helps them to navigate ever-changing state, federal, and local laws. Katie has significant experience litigating and advising on wage and hour issues; exempt/non-exempt classification; discrimination, harassment, and retaliation; arbitration agreements; independent contractor classification; business expense reimbursement; compensation; Section 17200, and more. She also works with clients to resolve employment disputes prior to litigation.
Katie earned her J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif.
Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)
Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)
She advises high-growth technology companies on general incorporation matters, venture capital financings and everyday corporate governance. Maria also represents venture capital firms in connection with their investments in private companies.
Londra
Elizabeth advises private and listed companies with a particular focus on the Technology, Energy & Infrastructure and Finance sectors.
Singapore
Lynette represents sponsors, investors, project companies, developers, financiers and other stakeholders across the many stages in the life cycle of a project. Lynette has experience advising on a wide range of projects in jurisdictions, including Singapore, Indonesia, India, Taiwan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and Mauritius. Projects that Lynette has worked on include incineration and waste-to-energy plants, sewage treatment plants, desalination plants, domestic and cross-border railways, data centers, and solar power facilities. Lynette also regularly advises clients on general corporate and commercial legal matters.
Prior to joining Orrick, Lynette practised for about 7.5 years at a top local law firm in Singapore, during which time she was seconded for 6 months to a Magic Circle law firm in Hong Kong, where she worked on a range of private equity matters. Thereafter, Lynette practised for over 3 years in a US-headquartered international law firm in Singapore, where she was extensively involved in, amongst other things, the completion of the project financing of a public-private partnership desalination plant project and various private equity and M&A transactions in the energy, projects and infrastructure space.