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Practice:

  • Proprietà intellettuale
  • Trade Secrets Litigation

Sarah Mullins Senior Associate

San Francisco

Sarah is an associate in the firm's Intellectual Property group. Before law school, Sarah worked for four years in the in-house legal departments of major technology companies. She draws on her in-house experience to understand her clients' businesses and needs and to come up with creative solutions to their legal challenges.

Immediately prior to joining Orrick, Sarah clerked for Justice Daniel E. Winfree of the Alaska Supreme Court.

During law school, Sarah gained civil litigation experience as a clinical intern in the East Bay Community Law Center's Consumer Justice Clinic and served as a student director of Berkeley Law's Appellate Advocacy course.

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Practice:

  • Fiscale
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy

Chelsea Munoz Patchen Senior Associate

Houston

Chelsea advises clients on a wide variety of corporate transactions and debt and equity financings with an emphasis on advising developers and financing parties in structuring transactions to take advantage of tax credits and other available tax benefits. She advises clients in the wind, solar, carbon capture, and carbon sequestration industries.

Prior to joining Orrick, Chelsea practiced as a Tax associate in the Houston office of another international law firm.

During law school, Chelsea worked as a research assistant to professors Jonathan Masur and Daniel Abebe and served as an articles editor for the Chicago Journal of International Law, in which she also published her own comment on the regulation of space debris. Prior to practicing law, she pursued a graduate degree in geography with a focus on people's relationship to urban nature and political ecology and taught lab courses in physical geography.

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Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Katherine Munyan Senior Associate

New York

Katherine represents clients in a wide range of complex litigation matters in both federal and state appellate courts.  Her work spans a wide range of substantive areas, from contract interpretation and administrative law to novel questions of constitutional law and statutory interpretation. She maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on issues of criminal justice and human rights. 

Katherine rejoined Orrick after serving as a law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Before joining Orrick, she clerked for Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also worked at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP on a range of commercial litigation and white collar matters. 

Katherine graduated from Yale Law School, where she served was a member of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the International Refugee Assistance Project. She has written, advised United Nations officials and diplomats, and appeared in a documentary addressing the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar. At Orrick, her pro bono practice has focused on the rights of defendants in the criminal justice system in the United States. 

Alex Murayama Associate

Singapore

Alex advises sponsors and financiers (including ECAs) on the development and finance of energy and infrastructure projects. He has experience with a range of structures including project financing, portfolio financing, export and agency financing, and corporate financing. His experience includes the financing of greenfield conventional power, cross-border hydropower, offshore and onshore wind, and solar PV IPPs across Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America.

He also has experience in capital markets (DCM, structured products, and derivatives) transactions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Alex practiced for over 4 years at a magic circle law firm's Tokyo and Singapore offices. Alex also spent 10 months as in-house counsel at a Japanese corporate.

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Practice:

  • Risoluzione contenziosi e vertenze complesse
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Difesa class action
  • Securities Litigation

Practice:

  • Private Equity
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Capital Markets
  • Technology & Innovation
  • UK
  • Consulenza strategica
  • Life Sciences & HealthTech
  • Petrolio e carburanti
  • Internet of Things
  • Energy

Katrina Murphy Senior Associate

Londra

Katrina advises on a wide range of domestic and international corporate matters including M&A, private equity, growth capital, and buy-and-build strategies.

She has advised on the acquisition of a number of technology-focused businesses, as well as transactions in the energy and life sciences sectors. Katrina recently advised Vitruvian Partners on its investment in Twinkl as well as Azzurri Group on its investment in Boojum.

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Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement
  • Fintech

Alexis Murray Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Alexis has counseled clients and worked on enforcement matters under the Dodd-Frank Act, Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, Military Lending Act, Truth in Lending Act, and various other federal and state consumer protection statutes.

In addition, Alexis has focused her practice on assisting clients in adapting to the evolving privacy landscape. She has experience advising on compliance for traditional financial institutions and fintechs under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other laws that address data privacy and information security. Alexis ensures that her clients remain aware of emerging developments and industry best practices in an evolving regulatory landscape.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • Fiscale

Mary Kate Murray Associate

Chicago

Mary Kate's practice focuses on the tax aspects of development and financing for renewable energy projects, including federal tax incentives, tax credit transfers, and tax equity structuring. 

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Capital Markets
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Technology Companies Group

Mark Mushkin Partner

New York

Mark counsels clients on access to the U.S. public markets, including advising on registered and 144A/Reg S debt and equity offerings, IPOs, private placement transactions and general securities law matters. He also provides counsel to underwriters and issuers on various offerings.

He also represents clients on public and private acquisitions, mergers and divestitures, private equity transactions, strategic investments, joint venture disputes, long-term commercial arrangements and general corporate matters, as well as advising financial institutions in negotiating credit facilities with investment grade and non-investment grade borrowers.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

Thomas Myers Senior Counsel

New York

Tom's practice also focuses on financings for industrial development bonds, local development corporations, housing bonds, resource recovery and water/sewer authority revenue bonds. He has extensive experience as underwriter’s and placement agent’s counsel on a wide variety of public finance matters. In addition, Tom was special counsel in connection with tax lien and tobacco settlement securitizations by various New York counties.

Practice:

  • Banking & Finance
  • Structured Finance

Nicolas Nader Managing Associate

Parigi

Nicolas advises French and international banks and financial institutions as well as sponsors and borrowers on French and cross-border structured finance transactions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Nicolas was an associate in the Assets & Structured Finance department of Watson, Farley & Williams.

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Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement
  • Fintech

Jeffrey Naimon Partner

Washington, D.C.

He defends financial services companies facing complex examination or enforcement matters before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and federal and state banking regulators, with a focus on fair lending, unfair, deceptive or abusive acts and practices (UDAAP), loan servicing, privacy and credit reporting, debt collection, servicemember protections and other consumer protection issues.

He assists banks and nonbanks (including fintech entities) structure, negotiate and operate a variety of partnerships, outsourcing programs and other third-party arrangements, including performing due diligence, negotiating transactions and advising on ongoing oversight protocols to meet regulatory expectations for third-party arrangements.

Jeff also assists in negotiating acquisition, capital markets and servicing transactions, advising on how best to structure the transaction to reduce risk and expedite deal closure, performing due diligence and assisting in obtaining the necessary change of control and other regulatory approvals.

Jeff is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer in Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance) in Chambers USA, which praised him for his "extremely high intellect regarding compliance matters and negotiation skills. There's none better at arguing a disputed point." He is also a Fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers.

He currently serves as the Co-chair of the Professional Development Task Force and previously served as Co-chair (2011-2013) and Co-vice Chair (2008-2010) of the Truth in Lending Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Committee and has authored numerous articles on consumer financial services.

Prior to joining Orrick, Jeff was a partner at Buckley LLP.