New York
Antonia has experience representing large commercial clients in complex and high-value litigation in federal and state courts across the country. She has broad experience representing corporations in all stages of litigation, including pre-suit demands, motions to dismiss, fact and expert discovery and depositions, summary judgment, and trial preparation.
San Francisco
Karen is involved in a full range of corporate legal projects for high growth technology companies including venture financings, public offerings, public company securities law compliance matters and mergers and acquisitions. She also regularly advises public companies and board of directors on corporate governance issues. Karen's clients include private and public companies in the biotechnology, real estate, finance and Internet related industries. She also represents underwriters in initial public offerings and follow-on offerings and venture capital firms in investment transactions.
Karen is a frequent speaker on corporate and securities law topics including Initial Public Offerings, Corporate Governance and Sarbanes-Oxley matters. She is also Co-Editor of Part III of Venture Capital & Public Offering Negotiation, published by Aspen Law & Business.
Before joining Orrick, Karen was a shareholder at Heller Ehrman LLP and was chair of their firmwide corporate governance practice group.
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.
San Francisco
Jason advises both public and private companies on compensation and benefits issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions, including pre-signing negotiations, executive and equity compensation and post-closing employee integration issues. Jason assists companies with compensation and benefit issues that arise with respect to their initial public offerings.
Jason's practice also focuses on counseling clients on all aspects of employee benefits related to the design, implementation, operation and any related fiduciary obligations with respect to tax-qualified retirement plans, including defined benefit and defined contribution plans, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements with a particular focus on Code Section 409A compliance and employee welfare benefit plans, including compliance with HIPAA, COBRA and other health laws.
Prior to attending law school, Jason served as a Sergeant in the United States Army.
Miami; Santa Monica
Miami; Santa Monica
Jason serves as a trusted advisor to founders, emerging growth companies, venture capital funds, and other strategic investors in a wide array of corporate matters in connection with planning and executing a variety of transactions. Primarily, including formation, early and late-stage venture funding rounds, corporate governance, corporate partnerships, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements, and investment matters. Jason advises companies across fintech, crypto, software, sports, artificial intelligence, and digital media.
Jason regularly represents Y Combinator companies. In addition to representing US companies on domestic transactions, Jason represents companies across the United States, EMEA, and Asia.
Prior to joining Orrick, Jason spent time within the legal departments of Netflix, Google, Facebook, and reserve stablecoin cryptocurrency. Prior to law school, Jason worked at Wilkinson Stekloff LLP aiding trials in federal courts, including The Northern District of California; The Southern District of New York; The Eastern District of Louisiana; and The Western District of Missouri.
Houston
Mason guides clients through their most significant energy transactions, from initial project development and M&A to debt and tax equity financings. This breadth of experience across the project lifecycle gives him valuable insight into what makes energy ventures successful, enabling him to help clients anticipate challenges and capture opportunities. Mason enjoys working closely with clients to manage risks and make projects successful.
Mason has a particular focus on real property matters, including negotiating site control documents, implementing shared facilities structures, and navigating title, survey and mineral issues. He is proud to work with a deep bench of talented attorneys at Orrick to efficiently handle large and complex transactions while maintaining keen attention to detail.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Karen focuses on litigation that crosses the boundaries between traditional legal practices, and therefore requires inventive and strategic approaches. These solutions, tucked in the creases between law and industry, are why leading technology and Fortune 500 companies hire Karen to resolve their most complex litigation matters.
Over the past 36 years, Karen has first-chaired state and federal trials, and arbitrated more than a dozen disputes. She has managed intellectual property and commercial disputes for companies such as Oracle, NVIDIA, Netflix and VMWare.
In addition to her legal background, Karen’s relationship management skills give her clients a significant advantage. She knows how to pull together and lead the best team, from multiple disciplines within Orrick, and often involving multiple law firms. Able to unite what were, and will be, competing firms into a single powerful unit takes a special type of leadership, one which Karen has demonstrated time and again.
San Francisco
Milano; Roma
Ha acquisito una vasta esperienza nell'assistenza ai principali gruppi bancari italiani e internazionali (tra cui Intesa Sanpaolo, Banco BPM, Crédit Agricole e Deutsche Bank) in tutti i tipi di finanziamenti, con una solida esperienza in leveraged finance e acquisition finance, corporate e real estate finance.
Assiste sia emittenti che investitori, come fondi di private debt, in finanziamenti obbligazionari e unitranche.
Washington, D.C.
His practice focuses on project finance transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Santa Monica
Norma’s practice includes:
Prior to joining Orrick, Norma was senior counsel at Buckley LLP. She also previously served as the vice president of compliance and counsel for a fintech company.
Los Angeles
She represents lenders, including banks and other financial institutions, and corporate borrowers in a wide range of secured and unsecured commercial financing transactions, including syndicated transactions, asset-based financings, private equity acquisition financings, cross-border transactions and refinancings. Cris also supports other practice groups, including the Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity group, the Technology Companies Group and the Energy and Infrastructure group, on financing matters for clients.
Cris is an active member of Orrick LA's recruiting committee. She also regularly engages in various types of pro bono matters, including immigration matters and wills and trusts matters.