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446485

Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group

Julia Foley Managing Associate

Austin

Julia is passionate about working with founders who think outside the box to grow their companies and become the next big thing across a wide breath of industries and across the globe. Julia has advised early-stage companies in several dozen equity and convertible financings.

Julia also represents investors and venture capital firms on their investments in early and high-growth technology companies.

465124

Practice:

  • Infrastructure
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Public Finance
  • Private Credit

Craig Byrne Partner

Milano

La sua attività si concentra in particolare nella consulenza a lender, sponsor, investitori, banche d'investimento ed emittenti in relazione a diversi tipi di transazioni, come operazioni di private placement, project finance (inclusi project bond), obbligazioni convertibili ed exchangeable, operazioni di structured equity e strumenti di capitalizzazione per banche e compagnie assicurative.

Esempi di esperienze recenti in questi ambiti includono l’assistenza nel contesto del finanziamento della storica autostrada italiana Brebemi (A35), del project bond per l'autostrada italiana A3 e del finanziamento dell'autostrada A21 in Italia. Ha inoltre fornito consulenza in relazione al finanziamento e rifinanziamento di Azzurra Aeroporti (gli aeroporti della Costa Azzurra), a vari finanziamenti per Mundys e Autostrada per l'Italia, e all'emissione di obbligazioni crossover da parte della società di telecomunicazioni italiana TIM S.p.A.

Craig ha anche prestato assistenza a diversi gruppi globali nel settore delle materie plastiche in diverse operazioni di secured private credit, structured equity e joint venture, con un recente focus sul riciclo meccanico e avanzato delle materie plastiche.

È stato a capo di diversi deal di alto profilo in Italia ed Europa. Recentemente ha fornito consulenza in relazione a molteplici emissioni di obbligazioni senior e subordinate da parte di un importante gruppo bancario italiano, inclusi titoli Additional Tier 1 e senior preferred. Ha inoltre assistito nell'emissione di obbligazioni dual-tranche da 1,5 miliardi di euro da parte di un produttore industriale globale.

Craig ha inoltre esperienza nel contesto degli LME (liability management exercises) di aziende e banche. In questo contesto, ha prestato consulenza nel contesto dello swap debito-equity effettuato dalla National Bank of Greece, dell'esercizio di gestione delle passività effettuato da Monte dei Paschi di Siena del deleveraging di Banca Monte dei Paschi tramite demerger parziale non proporzionale (che includeva un portafoglio di asset non performanti) a favore di Amco S.p.A. (di proprietà del governo italiano).

Qualificato in Inghilterra e Galles e Irlanda, Craig è riconosciuto dal mercato per l’elevato livello di competenza nella strutturazione di operazioni complesse all’interno dei quadri normativi italiani e internazionali, nonché per la solida capacità di integrazione tra aspetti giuridici e obiettivi di business.  

Classificato in Band 1 nelle directories Chambers Global 2025 e Chambers Europe 2025 per Capital Markets: Debt, Craig è anche riconosciuto nella Hall of Fame per Capital Markets: Debt da Legal 500 Europe.

740

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Discriminazione, molestie e ritorsioni
  • Retribuzione oraria

Julia C. Riechert Partner

Silicon Valley

Julia helps companies navigate and resolve challenging workplace issues and has extensive experience in:

  • Litigating and defeating harassment, discrimination, equal pay, disability and retaliation claims, including #MeToo and whistleblower allegations.
  • Successfully resolving pre-litigation disputes and employment claims.
  • The gig economy, independent contractor classification and agency temps, including the ABC test and California's Prop 22. 
  • Wage & hour class and PAGA actions, including defeating class certification for technology and retail companies.
  • Arbitration agreements, employment policies, anti-harassment training and workplace compliance best practices.
  • Defending companies against government charges and audits, including unemployment insurance matters.
  • Employee complaints, workplace investigations, layoffs and employment terminations.
  • Providing advice and counsel on a wide variety of employment issues for small, medium and large companies.

Julia's clients include Lyft, PayPal, Airbnb, Instacart, Visa, Cisco, TaskRabbit, Beyond Meat, Unity Technologies, Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Dropbox and Gensler. Julia and her Orrick partner Lynne Hermle won the 2017 California Lawyer of the Year award in Labor and Employment from California Lawyer for their defense verdict for SpaceX in a high profile sex harassment, discrimination, retaliation and disability case. The Daily Journal also named their two jury trial wins for SpaceX as top verdicts in 2016 and 2017, both affirmed on appeal. Orrick was named Employment Group of the Year in 2018, 2019 and 2020 by Law360 and The Recorder has named Orrick the "Litigation Department of the Year: Labor and Employment" in California four times.

Side note: Julia also loves animal rescue and drinks lots of coffee.

441887

Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Lisa Bixby Senior Associate

Los Angeles

Lisa focuses on appellate litigation. Her practice spans a wide range of subject areas, from complex commercial litigation to white collar criminal defense. She has authored dozens of appellate briefs—winning results in federal and state courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court—and has successfully argued before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits. Lisa’s practice also extends to trial work, with an emphasis on dispositive motions, preserving appellate issues, and developing creative legal strategies.

Lisa maintains an active pro bono practice, with a particular focus on criminal law and civil rights.

Before joining Orrick, Lisa served as a law clerk to Judge Richard A. Paez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also worked as an appellate attorney at the MacArthur Justice Center, where she litigated cutting-edge constitutional and statutory issues in federal and state appellate courts on behalf of incarcerated people and victims of police misconduct.

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Health Care Finance

Robyn L Helmlinger Partner

San Francisco

Robyn regularly works with both established borrowers and first-time borrowers to assist with structuring and restructuring debt programs that encompass a wide variety of debt and derivative products. In 2015, Robyn led the team that represented a private fund in connection with financing the management transfer of a multi-hospital nonprofit healthcare system to a subsidiary of the private fund, including negotiations with existing creditors. The financing involved an innovative bond structure that balanced current and future committed liquidity needs and debt burden. Robyn is also continually recognized for her excellent and sound judgment with respect to disclosure issues, including the difficult disclosure decisions caused by financial pressures from healthcare reform, affiliation activities, pension liabilities, governmental inquiries and investigations, labor disputes and qualified audit opinions.

In 2013, Robyn was elected a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel. She is one of the founding members of the Northern California Chapter of Women in Public Finance and currently serves on its advisory board. As a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, Robyn has been a panelist on the Health Care Financing Panel at the annual conference in 2003, 2004 and 2006. She is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group

Kaitlin F. Bagby Partner

Silicon Valley

She advises high-growth technology companies in various sectors and has significant experience with venture capital financings, general corporate representation and complex corporate governance matters.

Kaitlin is known for her work with Y Combinator companies.

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Nuclear
  • Renewable Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Energy

Jon Thursby Partner

Londra

In addition to drafting and negotiating FIDIC, BIMCO, LOGIC and other standard form agreements, Jon also advises on highly bespoke construction management and fully "wrapped" EPC agreements.

Jon advises sponsors, lenders and contractors on the construction and operation of wind, solar, biomass and other renewable energy projects in Asia, Europe, the UK and the U.S.

Jon's recent experience includes performing the role of Commercial Director for the Formosa II offshore wind project in Taiwan.

Before returning to the UK in 2024, Jon was based in Singapore for a number of years where he advised on some of the most complex and innovative offshore wind projects in South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia, including the Changfang and Xidao project developed by CIP and its partners, which remains one of the largest offshore wind project financings in Asia. Although based in London, Jon continues to advise on projects in various stages of development, construction and operation in Asia and the U.S.

Jon began his career as a disputes lawyer and continues to advise on contentious matters.

Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate
  • Patent & Intellectual Property Rights Appeals

Libby Moulton Partner

San Francisco; Silicon Valley

Libby joins trial teams – both within and outside of Orrick – and takes the role of legal strategist and brief writer. Before trial, Libby develops strategies for raising and preserving legal issues, especially Daubert issues and dispositive motions. At trial, Libby handles the charge conference, Rule 50(a) or directed verdict motions, and pocket briefing as needed. After trial, she manages the post-trial briefing and transitions the case to appeal. 

More than half of Libby's cases involve co-counsel outside of Orrick, where she quickly develops productive and collaborative relationships with outside litigation teams. She has experience in trial courts in Delaware, Texas, California (state and federal), Massachusetts, and the ITC.

In addition to her trial work, Libby maintains a robust appellate practice. Libby leads appellate briefing and has presented oral arguments in the Federal Circuit, Ninth Circuit, and New York Appellate Division. She has also represented clients in appeals to the Sixth Circuit, DC Circuit, California Court of Appeal, and US Supreme Court.

Libby also has an active pro bono practice, including representing the Arizona Federal Public Defender’s Office in an ongoing administrative challenge to capital habeas proceedings.

Prior to joining Orrick, Libby served as a law clerk to Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and to Judge Ronald M. Whyte of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before law school, Libby was a patent examiner in the medical device area at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

740

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Retribuzione e benefit M&A
  • America Latina

Juliano Banuelos Partner

San Francisco

Mr. Banuelos’ representative clients include Ancestry.com, Gap, Juniper Networks, Keysight Technologies, Oracle Corporation, Synopsys, Varex Imaging Corporation and Williams-Sonoma. Juliano is also a leader in providing compensation advice in mergers and acquisitions and regularly serves as special M&A tax counsel to in-house tax and HR departments.

In addition to being a recognized practitioner on IRC Section 409A, Juliano provides advice on the full range of compensation and benefits issues that arise ranging from designing and implementing equity-based, employment, separation, deferred compensation, change in control and similar arrangements to providing advice with respect to the design and legal compliance of qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans and welfare plans.

Mr. Banuelos also advises companies on all aspects of the securities laws relating to such arrangements.

Clients interviewed for Chambers and Partners describe Mr. Banuelos as "incredibly bright and very creative," and "extremely knowledgeable, and extremely helpful, as he provides practical solutions."

Practice:

  • Technology Transactions
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement

Julia Apostle Partner

Parigi

Julia counsels on compliance issues in relation to European and French tech and data regulations, including:

  • the GDPR;
  • the Digital Services Act;
  • the EU AI Act and the regulation of AI more generally,
  • the Data Act;
  • the Cyber Resilience Act;
  • the NIS2 Directive;

and other new and emerging legislation impacting online platforms, technology developers, and eCommerce businesses. She advises companies of all sizes on a wide range of compliance matters, ranging the drafting of internal policies, to assisting with regulatory investigations, product counseling and regulatory engagement.

In the context of strategic transactions covering significant and complex technological issues, she is involved in the drafting and negotiation of agreements relating to data transfer, IT, software, content and brand licensing.

Julia is deeply familiar with the commercial considerations’ clients face, having practiced in-house at Twitter, Financial Times and CBS for more than a decade prior to joining Orrick. Julia also teaches a course on AI contracts for the Master's program in AI Law at a leading French university and acts as a mentor for students.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Antitrust & Competition
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement

Julia Fabian, LL.M. (DMU Leicester) Managing Associate

Düsseldorf

She advises domestic as well as international clients on German and European antitrust and competition law, including mergers, compliance, internal investigations, cartels and abuse of dominance. In addition, Julia advises on foreign direct investment proceedings before the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action . Another part of her practice is to provide general corporate counselling.

At the beginning of her career at Orrick, Julia advised national and international clients on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, so she is experienced in corporate transactions to that extent.

Prior to joining Orrick, Julia worked as research assistant and trainee lawyer for several international law firms in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.