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364595

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Energy

Bill Medaille オブ・カウンセル

Austin

Bill’s experience in public finance includes representing issuers such as state agencies, local governments, public utilities, and public improvement districts on both general obligation and revenue financings, as well as representing the underwriters for various municipal bonds.

Prior to joining the firm, Bill served as in-house counsel at both the City of Austin and the Lower Colorado River Authority (Austin, Texas).

David R. Medina シニア・アソシエイト

Los Angeles

David develops strategies to protect his client’s bold innovations, whether assisting one of the world's leading technology companies, or a mobile gaming start-up. He offers intellectual property counseling and litigation, including patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret matters.

Before joining Orrick, David served as a law clerk to the Honorable Nora Barry Fischer in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Prior to his clerkship, David served as a full-time extern to the Honorable Kathleen O'Malley at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

David also spent a year working in-house for Panasonic Corporation, stationed near Panasonic's Osaka, Japan headquarters.

432140

Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement
  • Fintech
  • Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation

Sarah Meehan シニア・アソシエイト

Washington DC

Sarah has an active pro bono practice that includes assisting federal inmates with post-conviction relief and parole, as well as assisting residents with housing-related eviction matters in housing court.

Sarah received her J.D. from the University of Richmond (summa cum laude, Order of the Coif) in 2018. During law school she served as the Manuscripts Editor for the University of Richmond Law Review and was awarded the J. Westwood Smithers Award and the Phillip Cudlipp Medal. She received her B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2015.

Prior to joining Orrick, Sarah was an associate at Buckley LLP. Prior to joining Buckley, Ms. Meehan clerked for the Honorable Judge Roderick C. Young (then-Magistrate Judge) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Vinny Mei マネージング・アソシエイト

シリコン・バレー

Vinny Mei is an Associate in Orrick’s Technology Companies Group. Vinny advises technology companies across the software, financial technology, artificial intelligence, consumer internet, and enterprise software industries on matters ranging from general formation to venture capital financings to technology transactions, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to practicing law, Vinny co-founded Marq Vision, a Y Combinator-backed startup on a mission to eliminate counterfeits from online retail. He is passionate about access to justice, gamification in education, and empowering entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Vinny received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was the Bluebook Business Chair of the Harvard Law Review and Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. He earned his B.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • 知的財産

Will Melehani パートナー

サンフランシスコ

By delving into each case’s complexities and elegantly connecting those details to a broader technical perspective, Will creatively unravels his opposition’s argument.

Will uses this approach to defend cutting edge computer, Internet, software companies and life sciences companies with great success, having prevailed in numerous subject matter eligibility challenges. Will's mastery of patent law also allows him to ensure his strategy will withstand appeal, where Will has frequently played a key role in writing and arguing the appellate briefs. Whether handling patent, trademark or trade secrets matters, Will’s creative methodology gives his clients a unique advantage.

Will is also an enthusiastic participant in Orrick's pro bono efforts, and has obtained successful results for several disadvantaged and low-income pro bono clients.

Practice:

  • Life Sciences & HealthTech

Ana Mendez-Villamil マネージング・アソシエイト

サンフランシスコ

Ana represents companies in the technology, energy, and financial sectors in a wide range of civil disputes including claims of trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract.  Her practice also includes defending companies under investigation by states Attorneys General. 

Prior to law school, Ana was a member of the legal team at Lyft supporting the Litigation, IP, Employment, Product/Commercial, and Corporate practice groups.

Practice:

  • Antitrust & Competition
  • International Trade and Investment
  • Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement

Dr. Lars Mesenbrink パートナー

デュッセルドルフ

His background in economics, Chinese language skills and extensive international experience add to his excellent legal knowledge and allow him to advise his clients on a comprehensive basis.

Lars has represented clients before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office in all areas of competition law, inter alia including mergers, compliance, cartels, litigation and abuse of dominance.

In these areas, he provides companies with innovative solutions on high-profile complex matters including private damages actions and cartel investigations, often involving multiple jurisdictions.

Lars also pursues international trade and compliance matters, including matters involving foreign investment filings in Germany.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Restructuring

Laura Metzger パートナー

New York

She regularly represents financial institutions, direct lenders, funds, and investors involved in bankruptcies, out-of-court restructurings, foreclosures, distressed sales and acquisitions, loan and claims trading, bankruptcy litigation and refinancing involving syndicated loan facilities, debtor-in-possession financing and exit financing. She also represents start-up and later stage venture companies (with a focus on technology, blockchain and crypto) and venture capital investors in connection with liquidity crunches, rescue financing, wind-downs and negotiated resolutions with key stakeholders and investments or claims against insolvent counterparties.

Recognized as “outstanding” by The Legal 500 US, Laura was also named a Recognized Practitioner by Chambers USA, which praised her “very commercial and solution oriented” approach. She is “a very capable lawyer who gives great advice,” according to clients. Her clients include Royal Bank of Canada, UBS O’Connor, Red Rock Biofuels, Jade Mountain Partners, ECN Capital Corporation, Equinor, Portigon AG, Macquarie, PwC,Transurban, the Bank of Nova Scotia, and Erste Abwicklungsanstalt among others.

Laura has been involved in many prominent bankruptcy and out-of-court restructuring cases, including FTX, Talen Energy, Celsius Networks, Three Arrows Capital, restructurings related to the collapse of Tera and Luna, Mt. Gox, Legacy Reserves, White Eagle, Cobalt, Chesapeake Energy, Shopko, The Weinstein Company, Lily Robotics, Seadrill, Chaparral, CHC Helicopters, Erickson, GT Advanced Technologies, Hostess, Pocahontas Parkway, Indiana Toll Road, Eagle Bulk, Fresh & Easy, American Airlines, Chemtura Corporation, Lazare Kaplan, Hawker Beechcraft, Metro Fuel, Claim Jumper Restaurants, Abitibibowater, Nortel, Fabrikant, Scotia Pacific, VICORP, Sea Containers, Lyondell, Foxwoods, Delta, US Air, Northwest, Star Diamond, and Ritchie Risk-Linked Strategies Trading (Ireland) Limited. She handles cross-border restructuring matters in major international jurisdictions such as Canada, Europe, Cayman Islands and B.V.I.

Laura also has expertise in the esoteric asset class, life settlements. She represents clients in the life settlement and premium finance markets, acting for buyers, sellers and owners of life settlements and premium finance loans, and has extensive experience with the various legal issues impacting such assets.

450095

Practice:

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • 知的財産
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Technology Transactions

Andrea Mezzetti オブ・カウンセル

ローマ

He is Of Counsel and a member of the Technology Transactions practice in Italy.

Andrea is well recognized in the market for his commercial and transactional skills in Tech transactions. He works alongside leading Tech players with a focus on the regulatory aspects of new technologies and the drafting and negotiation of strategic contracts for the launch of new types of services and industry-specific agreements.

As a recognized expert, Andrea is often invited to take part in technical committees established at independent Authorities and Ministries and is a member of several sector-specific associations. He is also regularly invited to give speeches on technology law issues by prestigious Italian Universities.

Andrea is the author of numerous papers and in-depth studies on the matter. He regularly contributes to national and international journals, writing articles on topics related to telecommunications, consumer protection, and technology. He also participates as a speaker in several conferences, seminars, and master's degrees concerning the TMT sector in Italy.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Transactions
  • 知的財産
  • Patents
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement

Benedikt Migdal パートナー

デュッセルドルフ

Benedikt advises on structuring and negotiating the IP aspects of corporate transactions, including M&A, divestments and venture investments as well as of commercial transactions where intellectual property rights and know-how are key assets. His work encompasses, for example, IP licensing and technology transfer agreements, engineering services agreements, transition services agreements, R&D collaborations, and IP aspects of contracts throughout the life sciences sector.

Benedikt is also an experienced patent and trade secret litigator and has represented German and international clients from a range of industries in complex disputes, especially concerning patents and know-how in the fields of mobile telecommunication/connectivity and the life sciences.

Based on his extensive experience in both IP transactions and litigation, he deeply understands the full range of legal and economical issues that technology-driven companies are challenged with in context with IP. This also includes IP-related competition law issues, such as FRAND-requirements for licensing and enforcing standard essential patents as well as issues arising in connection with EU regulations concerning technology transfers.

384355

Practice:

  • Financial Services Litigation
  • 複雑な訴訟および紛争処理
  • Trade Secrets Litigation

Rudi Miller アソシエイト

Los Angeles

Rudi has experience representing large commercial clients in complex and high-value litigation in federal and state courts across the country. She has advised clients in all stages of litigation from receipt of pre-litigation demands through discovery, expert work, summary judgment, trial preparation, and trial. 

Rudi also completed a client secondment at Goldman Sachs in New York in their Litigation and Regulatory Compliance Group.

In her pro bono practice, Rudi has provided services to ICE detainees and low-income veterans.