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Gina Marek is a partner in Orrick’s Technology Transactions group, based in Silicon Valley. She advises emerging and established life sciences, healthtech and other technology companies on strategic licensing, commercial transactions, and the protection and commercialization of intellectual property and data‑driven products.
Gina has extensive experience representing high‑growth companies in corporate partnering, strategic alliances, technology licensing, and IP‑driven M&A and financing transactions, with a particular emphasis on life sciences collaborations and platform deals. She also counsels venture capital investors and public companies on the intellectual property, technology, and privacy and data protection aspects of investments and acquisitions.
Known for her pragmatic approach and industry insight, Gina draws on years of experience structuring and negotiating complex deals for hundreds of innovative companies, including at her prior firm where she co‑chaired their Strategic Transactions and Licensing Group. She works closely with Orrick’s venture capital, M&A, and emerging company teams to deliver business‑minded solutions that help clients scale efficiently, manage risk, and achieve their strategic objectives.
Gina has negotiated significant commercial and strategic transactions with many of the world’s leading life sciences, healthcare, technology, financial services, and consumer products companies. Her experience spans a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on life sciences and healthcare, and includes fintech, consumer technology, and enterprise software, across complex platform and field‑limited licenses, strategic distribution and co‑branding arrangements, and content and talent collaborations.
In addition to her client work, Gina is a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches Fundamentals of Technology Transactions. She has been recognized among “Women Leaders in Tech Law” for her work in intellectual property, privacy, and technology transactions, and is CIPP/US‑certified.
Gina is a former Division I athlete, having swum on athletic scholarship for the University of California, Berkeley.
