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740

Practice:

  • Mergers and Acquisitions

Peter Lillevand シニア・カウンセル

サンフランシスコ

Peter served as the firm’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1986 to 1990 and as its Managing Partner from 1983 to 1986.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Real Estate

Jesse Paul Albani シニア・アソシエイト

サンフランシスコ

Jesse regularly serves as bond counsel for multifamily housing, student housing and waste-to-energy facility financings. His recent experience includes the development and implementation of a successful tax-exempt financing program for the creation and preservation of affordable housing for middle-income families and individuals across California. In addition, Jesse frequently assists issuers, underwriters and developers with the structuring and financing of nonprofit and general governmental transactions throughout the United States.

Jesse also serves on the Board of Governors for The University of San Francisco School of Law.

432501

Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement
  • Fintech
  • Class Action Defense
  • 複雑な訴訟および紛争処理
  • 政府による調査および強制措置

Sarah Davis カウンセル

サンフランシスコ

Sarah has particular expertise defending challenges to overdraft fees, including challenges to authorize positive, settle negative (“APSN”) transactions, and has represented Capital One, U.S. Bank, First Hawaiian Bank, and Union Bank in putative class actions challenging APSN fees. Separately, Sarah has defended two large national banks in enforcement actions related to overdraft fees and obtained a non-public resolution of voluntary remediation.

Sarah also has a robust practice defending both small and large companies against allegations of food mislabeling. She has successfully defended or reached favorable settlement terms regarding challenges to “all natural,” “no sugar added,” and “non-GMO” claims.

Dan Williams シニア・アソシエイト

サンフランシスコ

Dan is experienced in Hatch-Waxman litigation, including disputes involving drug treatments for cancer and HIV. Dan is also experienced in biologics litigation and counseling, representing clients on matters involving expression vectors, antibodies, gene therapies, and CAR T-cell therapies. Dan’s experience includes litigating patents directed to recombinant DNA technology, complex manufacturing processes, small molecule compounds, crystalline forms, methods of treatment, oral dosage formulations, injectable formulations, and fixed dose combination products.

Dan has contributed to numerous victories on behalf of our life science clients, including a complete win in a multi-patent Hatch-Waxman trial for a client’s blockbuster cancer therapy, favorable claim constructions in numerous cases, and obtaining a special master’s report and recommendation for attorneys’ fees for the opposing parties’ exceptional discovery misconduct. Dan has courtroom advocacy experience, including presenting to the district court for Markman proceedings.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

John Palmer パートナー

サンフランシスコ

His practice includes serving as bond and disclosure counsel on revenue and tax-supported bond transactions in a variety of financing structures, including fixed rate bonds, variable rate bonds, synthetic fixed rate bonds and conduit issues.

Larry Low カウンセル

サンフランシスコ

As a partner, he represented public and private high growth technology companies, and venture capital funds in a broad range of industries including, energy, semiconductors, Internet, software and consumer products. He has extensive experience in start-up enterprises, venture financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and has advised companies and investors in cross border transactions involving Asia.

Larry was appointed in 1995 by President Clinton as one of four U.S. representatives to serve on the panel of arbitrators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes.   He has served as an officer and board member for numerous non-profit organizations.   From 2021 to 2023, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Ascend, the largest network of Asian professionals.  

Larry has published articles that have appeared in publications of the California Continuing Education of the Bar and the Practicing Law Institute. He has made presentations to the Practicing Law Institute, Law Journal Seminars, Silicon Valley Association of Start up Entrepreneurs, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, University of California at Berkeley, Haas Business School, UC Berkeley Law and the California State Bar among others.  He was a lecturer at Stanford Law School during the Fall of 2024. 

431380

Practice:

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

James McGuire パートナー

サンフランシスコ

James has deep experience in the full range of consumer financial products, including credit cards, debit cards and deposit accounts – most recently demonstrated in overdraft cases involving “authorize positive, settle negative” transactions. He has also represented plaintiffs seeking declaratory or injunctive relief in lawsuits against state attorneys general and other government officials.

An experienced appellate lawyer, he has argued numerous appeals before numerous federal appellate courts, the California Courts of Appeal and state supreme courts.

Chambers USA recognized James in consumer finance litigation for his “A+ legal mind” and his “very grounded and strategic advice.” He is also recognized by Legal 500 for financial services litigation.

James maintains a robust and diversified pro bono practice and has handled matters involving same-sex spousal benefits, sensible gun legislation and advocacy for the homeless.

Prior to joining Orrick, James was a partner at Buckley LLP. He also was a partner at Morrison Foerster. James also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Eugene A. Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit following law school.

434268

Practice:

  • Data Centers
  • Renewable Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Offshore Wind
  • Energy Storage
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Energy
  • Power

Patrick Ferguson パートナー

サンフランシスコ

Patrick has extensive experience leading energy development projects across a wide range of technologies, including solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, and natural gas peaking and combined-cycle plants. He has negotiated gigawatts of energy storage tolling and capacity agreements with both utilities and commercial and industrial offtakers. He also regularly advises major power companies on the sale of energy and capacity from existing generation assets, with deep familiarity in WSPP, EEI, and ISDA contracting frameworks.

A recognized authority in energy regulation, Patrick is at the forefront of many of the sector’s most innovative projects over the past two decades. He is currently advising on a diverse portfolio of commercial structures to power and develop data centers, including both in-front-of-the-meter and behind-the-meter solutions.

Patrick is ranked as a market leader by Chambers USA, Legal 500 USA, and Best Lawyers. He is also the editor of Megawatts to Megabytes: Orrick’s 2025 Guide to Developing, Financing & Powering Data Centers, the firm’s definitive publication on data center infrastructure and energy strategy.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance
  • Energy
  • Infrastructure

Stanley Dirks シニア・カウンセル

サンフランシスコ

He represents issuers and underwriters of tax-exempt bonds to finance a variety of public facilities and programs, including water and power systems, airports, schools, rental housing loan programs and homeownership loan programs.

Stan has served as a lecturer and panelist on a variety of programs concerning state and local government debt issuance. He also served for ten years as one of the original members of the Technical Advisory Committee of the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.

Stan also has a long history of involvement in the governance of nonprofit education, arts and other charitable organizations.

740

Practice:

  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • 複雑な訴訟および紛争処理
  • 審理

William Alderman シニア・カウンセル

サンフランシスコ

Bill is additionally recognized for the results he has obtained in insurance coverage, employee benefits, and federal and state antitrust disputes. He commits a substantial part of his time to pro bono representation and to representation of the firm.

Representing clients in class and derivative actions, Bill's approach is to minimize his clients’ overall cost through careful strategic planning, dispositive motions and aggressive negotiation. Only three of the many securities class actions he has defended have resulted in any settlement payment by his client or its carrier. Of his nearly 100 motions to dismiss securities class, mass or derivative actions since 1996, more than 90 percent were granted in their entirety (most with prejudice), while others were granted in part or led to a successful motion for summary judgment.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector

Charles C. Cardall パートナー

サンフランシスコ

He also has legal experience relating to both charter schools and the federal income tax classification of governmental and quasi-governmental entities. He has consulted on thousands of tax-exempt, build America and tax credit bond issues and has developed deep knowledge in almost every tax aspect of municipal finance. Private activity bonds for multifamily housing, solid waste, charter schools and independent schools are areas of particular focus in his practice, as are higher education, short-term and long-term working capital and the various forms of pooled financings. Chas also has advised numerous clients experiencing financial distress or bankruptcy in tax matters relating to their municipal bonds. Representative active clients include the State of California, the University of California, the Bay Area Toll Authority, and Charter School Capital.

As a legal and policy advocate, Chas represents both government and non-government clients in federal tax rulemaking matters and in IRS proceedings, including the various types of tax-exempt bond audits, voluntary compliance (VCAP) requests and requests for private letter rulings. He has successfully closed IRS examinations relating to solid waste, water and wastewater, working capital, healthcare, pooled, multifamily housing, and industrial development bond financings. He has obtained multiple private letter rulings and technical advice memoranda and has been integrally involved in numerous regulation and legislative projects. He has found that a close working relationship with IRS and Treasury Department personnel often is critical to obtaining good results for clients.

Raghav Krishnapriyan パートナー

サンフランシスコ

Raghav has litigated a broad range of technology, life sciences, and trade secret cases through trial and appeal. In the life sciences space, he helped secure a $178 million patent infringement verdict for a Bay Area pharmaceutical client, was instrumental in obtaining a highly favorable settlement in a complex contract case involving CAR-T technology, and fended off IPRs filed against foundational fusion protein technology by biosimilar makers. In the technology space, his facility with both web programming and legal minutiae has resulted in victories in a bet-the-company trade secret litigation against a startup revolutionizing scientific research, summary judgment in an action against his client involving five widely-litigated web patents, and a judgment of patent invalidity under § 101 against seven patents. He has also litigated class actions and criminal cases that have a technology-related focus. He has assisted numerous emerging and venture-funded companies across industry sectors.

Raghav also maintains an active pro bono practice, representing asylum seekers and inmates seeking compassionate release.

Raghav holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California, Davis, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He clerked for the Honorable James Donato of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the Honorable Jane Kelly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.