Ashlie grew up in a family of restaurant franchisees, and she learned about the power of a strong trademark at a young age. This understanding led her to pursue a career in trademark and copyright law, and from her start as a trademark prosecution intern at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in law school, through her work in trademark and copyright litigation at Fish & Richardson P.C., her practice has always focused on assisting businesses with their intellectual property needs.
Ashlie’s practice at Orrick focuses on domestic and international trademark and copyright prosecution and counseling. She has experience assisting businesses ranging from small start-ups to multi-billion dollar corporations with trademark clearance, protection, and strategy. Additionally, Ashlie has extensive experience in intellectual property litigation in federal district courts and at the International Trade Commission. Because of her wide-range of experience, she brings to each matter a unique understanding of the intersection of copyright and trademark clearance and prosecution and enforcement and litigation.
Neil works with litigation attorneys and third party vendors to manage the review for cyber incident response, investigations, and litigation. This work includes using early case assessment technology to analyze, categorize, and cull data. He also manages teams of skilled professionals performing document review, quality control, and notification list deliverables.
As both bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel, he has been responsible for
structuring and analyzing the tax aspects of many tax-exempt financings
throughout the country.
Larry has extensive experience in handling IRS
audits of bond transactions. He has represented issuers in dozens of audits all
of which have ended favorably either with the IRS issuing a “no change” letter
or by negotiating a reasonable settlement when needed. Larry also has handled a
number of submissions under the IRS’ Voluntary Closing Agreement Program (or
VCAP). The two most recent VCAP submissions represented cases of first
impression for the IRS; one involving an issue of qualified energy conservation
bonds relating to determining the amount of those bonds eligible for the federal
subsidy; the other involved the plan to convert a “new money” bond issue into an
advance refunding (which did not meet all of the requirements for a tax-exempt
advance refunding). Both cases ultimately were resolved on the original terms
proposed to the IRS.
Larry has also been instrumental in developing new
financing techniques and structures. He first devised the tax structure and
analysis for, and has served as tax counsel on, Orrick’s tax exempt tobacco
revenue securitizations. He has developed the tax structure on numerous
tax-exempt prepayments for natural gas for municipal utilities both within and
outside of California.
Alex’s multidisciplinary practice and transatlantic experience enable him to provide strategic commercial advice for technology led companies, including coordinating and implementing data and consumer risk mitigation projects, providing outsourcing advice and developing key legal risk mitigation strategies in relation to products where the pace of innovation nearly always outpaces the law.
He has advised companies at all stages of the corporate lifecycle, from software development and product launch, through technology licensing, sale and purchase, to mergers and acquisitions of data and tech-heavy businesses. He has assisted organisations with the design, development and implementation of global data protection and compliance policies, as well the management of risk and security associated with data retention, processing and transfer.
With more than three decades of experience advising both private and public companies—and having served as a senior in-house executive across multiple pioneering biotech and life sciences companies—Mark brings a uniquely business minded perspective to his counsel and delivers a rare blend of legal acumen and executive experience that positions him as a trusted strategic partner to entrepreneurs, companies and investors.
Mark is a veteran of hundreds of successful venture capital financings, technology and licensing transactions, strategic alliances, corporate governance matters, mergers and acquisitions, and public and private equity and debt offerings on behalf of companies in every health and biotech related vertical.
Before joining Orrick, Mark was a partner and co-founder of the Wilson Sonsini Boston office. He previously held senior executive roles at Affymetrix (AFFX), Helicos Biosciences (HLCS) and Joule Global Holdings, where he oversaw legal strategy, led public offerings and financings, negotiated strategic partnerships and licensing transactions, and managed critical business functions including HR, finance, and government affairs.
Mark and his wife, Christine, have been married for more than 25 years and have two adult children.
Ted is a trusted advisor to the financial services industry in supervisory and enforcement matters before state and federal regulators, including the CFPB, and the DOJ. He also has significant experience guiding clients through enhancements to internal policies, practices, and customer-facing documentation to align with regulator expectations.
Prior to joining Orrick, Ted was a partner at Buckley LLP.
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