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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure Sector
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Banking & Finance
  • Renewable Energy
  • Power
  • Africa

Paul Loisel パートナー

パリ

Paul's practice focuses on project finance and strategic acquisition transactions in energy and infrastructure.

He advises sponsors and financiers on large greenfield and brownfield project financings, both cross-border and domestic, primarily in France, in EMEA and Africa.

He brings exceptional knowledge in structuring and financing of public-private, transport, telecom, energy transition, social infrastructure and real estate projects.

Paul also regularly advises clients in the fast-growing EnergyTech and InfraTech sectors.

He has extensive experience on all types of financings (senior, junior, mezzanine, loans, bonds) and related derivative instruments.

More generally, Paul advises on financing aspects of strategic assets in connection with project finance, M&A/private equity or restructuring transactions.

Practice:

  • Mergers and Acquisitions

Emanuela Longo Special Counsel

ミラノ

Emanuela is Special Counsel in Orrick’s Milan office and a member of the firm’s M&A and Private Equity Group.

Emanuela assists Italian and multinational companies in all phases of M&A transactions, from initial structuring to negotiation and closing. Her practice includes advising on day-to-day corporate governance, commercial contracts, and high-profile strategic projects. She is experienced in supporting clients with their ongoing operational needs as well as with special projects that require tailored legal solutions. In recent years, she has developed particular experience advising on M&A transactions in the industrial sector.

Her clients also include private equity and venture capital funds, merchant banks, family offices, and business owners in the context of private equity transactions aiming at the expansion of their business in Italy and abroad. She regularly assists funds investing across a range of industries, including food, textiles, and manufacturing.

Kimberly M. Loocke シニア・アソシエイト

サンフランシスコ

Kimberly holds a Certified Public Accountant license and worked as a senior tax associate for Deloitte Tax, LLP prior to law school.

Practice:

  • Supreme Court & Appellate

Cesar Lopez-Morales カウンセル

Washington DC

He is a skilled brief writer who focuses on simplifying complex concepts and crafting a compelling story that frames factual and legal issues in a way that is more likely to produce favorable results for clients. Cesar routinely drafts briefs in federal and state courts of appeals and in the U.S. Supreme Court, and is often embedded at the trial level to brief dispositive motions and to make sure that issues are preserved with an eye towards appeal.

Cesar advises clients on how to analyze executive actions and handles government-facing litigation, including challenges to the legality of federal and state laws and regulations. His work covers a wide range of substantive areas, including constitutional and administrative law, statutory interpretation, complex commercial litigation, federal preemption, and the False Claims Act. And although Cesar handles high-stakes cases across an array of subjects, his work tends to focus on the firm’s technology and life sciences sectors.

Before joining Orrick, Cesar was an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, where he represented the United States and its agencies in dozens of cases involving challenges to the legality of federal laws, actions, and programs. He argued and won dispositive motions in federal district courts nationwide. His experience included litigating cutting-edge matters involving the Appointments Clause; the Spending Clause; the Territory Clause; the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments; the separation of powers; the Administrative Procedure Act; the Federal Vacancies Reform Act; the Freedom of Information Act; and the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act.

He also maintains an active pro bono practice, representing immigrants and veterans in their appeals to the federal courts of appeals and filing amicus briefs in precedent-setting cases of public interest. He is especially passionate about advancing the rights of the residents in the U.S. territories.  

Cesar served as a law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor in the October 2023 Term.  Before that, he clerked for Judge José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then-Presiding Judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and Judge Jay A. Garcia-Gregory of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.

Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Offshore Wind
  • Renewable Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy

April Lord シニア・アソシエイト

ロンドン

April’s experience includes advising on acquisitions and disposals of solar farms and wind projects as well as on joint venture arrangements and other commercial contracts across a range of renewable and conventional energy companies.

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Practice:

  • Technology Companies Group

William Lorenzen アソシエイト

Santa Monica

Will's practice focuses on general corporate counseling and venture capital financings. He represents innovative startups in a wide variety of industries and venture capital firms in their investments in technology companies.

Prior to his career in law, Will worked in revenue operations and strategy for two venture-backed software companies. A self-proclaimed excel nerd, Will leverages his quantitative experience to provide the companies he represents with practical approaches to complex transactions.

Maya Lorey アソシエイト

シアトル

Maya represents pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovators in complex, high-stakes intellectual property disputes.

Prior to joining Orrick, Maya clerked for the Honorable Chief Judge David Estudillo of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Maya earned her law degree with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as Online Editor for the University of Chicago Law Review.

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Practice:

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Restructuring

Aurélien Loric パートナー

パリ

Aurélien’s practice focus on restructuring and insolvency matters.

He advises debt funds, hedge funds and other stakeholders (creditors, investors, buyers or debtors) in the context of financial or operational restructurings, whether amicable or judicial. He also advise entrepreneurs, managers, companies and investors on corporate matters independent of their restructuring activity.

Ranked "Next Generation Partner" in Restructuring by Legal 500 EMEA, Aurélien has recently acted for creditors and financial investors in high-stakes transactions involving listed companies such as Orpea, Pierre & Vacances - Center Parcs or Figeac Aero, as well as in various amicable and judicial midcap cases.

Prior to joining Orrick, Aurélien was a partner at an international UK law firm having previously worked in several international law firms based in Paris and New York.

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Practice:

  • Banking & Finance
  • Private Credit

Claudia Loriggio アソシエイト

ミラノ

Claudia advises banks, private debt funds, sponsored investment vehicles, large corporations, and SMEs on domestic and cross-border leveraged and acquisition finance transactions, as well as corporate finance and refinancing transactions.

Before specializing in banking and finance, Claudia was also involved in M&A transactions, and she gained some experience in assisting Italian and foreign companies and private equity funds both in the corporate and in the financial aspects of acquisition and investment transactions.

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Practice:

  • Strategic Advisory and Government Enforcement

Andrew Louis Risk Mgmt Deputy Gen Counsel

Washington DC

Prior to joining Orrick, Andrew served as General Counsel to Buckley LLP, providing counsel and advice to firm management and lawyers on a wide range of legal and risk management issues, including ethics, conflicts and loss prevention. He was also a Buckley Partner, representing consumer financial services clients in government enforcement actions, complex and class action litigation, regulatory examinations, and internal investigations, as well as in a variety of regulatory and compliance matters. Andrew also served as Secretary of Buckley’s charitable foundation, and as a member of the Pro Bono and E-Discovery committees.

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. 

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Practice:

  • 知的財産
  • Trade Secrets Litigation
  • Patents
  • 複雑な訴訟および紛争処理

John Lu パートナー

Los Angeles

Primary Focus & Experience

Dr. Lu’s practice focuses on patent, trade secrets, and life sciences litigation. He has represented clients in matters involving patent infringement, U.S.-China trade secret misappropriation, biosimilars, ANDA litigation, and licensing disputes. He also represents clients in connection with proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. His clients have included Genentech, Tris Pharma, Rosenberger, and Natera.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Dr. Lu has been on the editorial advisory board for Law360 Life Science publications and was named to Benchmark Litigation’s “40 and Under Hot List,” which honors the achievements of the nation’s most accomplished litigators under 40. He was also named to the Southern California Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers.

Dr. Lu has authored a number of publications, including: “Thryv: opposing policies in the Supreme Court,” World Intellectual Property Review (June 5, 2020); “The Growth of Online Universities: How to Solve the Accreditation Dilemma, Protect Students, and Expand Access to Higher Education,” a chapter in “Education and Social Media: Toward a Digital Future,” MIT Press (2016); “Senate Gridlock Causes En Banc Uncertainty,” and “Intellectual Property Special Report,” The Recorder (July 15, 2013); and “Promotion and Market Share in the Proton Pump Inhibitor Market: A Case Study,” Journal of Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management, Volume 17, Issue 3, 39-59 (2007).

Dr. Lu is the chair of the board of directors for Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC), a nonprofit organization. He was also a Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

Prior to private practice, Dr. Lu was a law clerk to the Honorable William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Dr. Lu received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. While in law school, he was an extern for the Honorable John T. Noonan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and an intern for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut.

Prior to law school, Dr. Lu earned his Doctor of Pharmacy, with highest distinction, from the University of North Carolina, and worked in pharmaceutical marketing.

Dr. Lu is conversant in Mandarin Chinese.