
旧金山
He has extensive M&A experience involving numerous types of business. He has particular experience in the area of the taxation of REITs, having represented both public and private REITs for many years, and in the area of real estate transactions and partnerships. Grady's private investment fund practice includes the representation of real estate funds, venture capital funds and hedge funds, as well as institutional investors in such funds.
Prior to joining Orrick, Grady worked for the firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, where he served on the firm’s Executive Committee and as Chair of the Tax Group.
New York
New York
A member of Orrick's Litigation business unit, Ben's primary practice involves defending Orrick's clients against high-stakes investor and consumer lawsuits. He works collaboratively and creatively to advance clients' interests.
Ben's ongoing representation includes:
Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining Orrick, Lauren was an associate at Buckley LLP.
Washington, D.C.
As FBI Deputy General Counsel, Tom oversaw the Bureau’s nationwide civil litigation docket, including employment disputes, Freedom of Information Act cases, Constitutional tort suits, and an array of matters implicating law enforcement and national security equities. He supervised more than one hundred Office of General Counsel personnel, and advised the FBI’s Director, Deputy Director and other executive management officials regarding especially sensitive litigation issues.
Prior to serving at the FBI, Tom spent 25 years with the Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, as an appellate litigator and supervisor. In that capacity, he oversaw the court of appeals and Supreme Court work of the Appellate staff’s attorneys across the full range of U.S. government subject areas, including Constitutional issues, anti-terrorism and national security, Federal Tort Claims Act, False Claims Act, Bivens, personnel and federal labor relations, Freedom of Information Act, administrative law, attorney fees, and government benefits. Tom personally briefed and orally argued more than one hundred cases in all of the federal courts of appeals and several state appellate courts, and drafted dozens of U.S. Supreme Court merits briefs, amicus briefs, certiorari petitions, and oppositions to certiorari petitions. One of the principal architects of the Justice Department’s litigation strategy in high-stakes appeals, Tom was considered one of the agency’s go-to advocates.
Tom received the Justice Department’s John Marshall Award for outstanding appellate advocacy, as well as the Attorney General’s Award for furthering the interests of U.S. national security. He has served as an instructor at the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute and is also an Adjunct Professor at American University’s Washington College of Law.
Before joining DOJ, Tom clerked for then-Judge (now retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Joshua has closed over 150 financing transactions aggregating tens of billions for state and local government capital programs, nonprofit capital projects, energy production and transmission facilities, airport systems, healthcare systems, surface transportation systems, water systems and affordable multifamily rental housing projects, among others. He regularly serves as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel, and borrower’s counsel and has experience with all the major financing products available in the market. His expertise includes tax-exempt and taxable financings, commercial paper, credit and liquidity-enhanced transactions, fixed, variable, and multi-modal debt, senior and subordinate structures, as well as tenders, exchanges, conversions and reofferings. Joshua also works closely with our Band 1-ranked (Chambers USA) infrastructure group and is experienced in alternative delivery and public-private partnership (P3) transactions across various segments of the infrastructure sector.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
He represents clients in complex matters involving products liability and commercial contracts. He is also active in pro bono matters.
While in law school, Ryan participated in the USC Hale Moot Court Honors Program. He also externed for the Honorable Virginia A. Phillips in the Central District of California. Before law school, Ryan served in the Teach For America corps and taught middle school history.