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Sr Litigation Career Associate

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Prior to joining Orrick, Robert was a Senior Associate in the Pittsburgh, PA office of the global law firm Reed Smith LLP and a Senior Attorney at Houston Harbaugh, P.C., also in Pittsburgh.  At Reed Smith and Houston Harbaugh, Robert represented clients in a wide range of complex commercial litigation, with a focus on product liability, mass/toxic tort defense, and commercial contract disputes, including insurance coverage matters.  Robert has represented numerous companies in environmental, toxic tort, and asbestos litigation on a national level.  Robert also has represented both policyholders and insurers in insurance contract litigation.  He has extensive experience litigating complex matters in state and federal courts, as well as alternative dispute resolution.

Hervé Touraine 合伙人

巴黎; 日内瓦

Hervé represents French and international financial institutions, corporates, sponsors, investors, insurance companies, asset managers and alternative capital providers on French and cross border transactions. He advises on banking, structured finance, securitization, and capital markets transactions.

Hervé has worked on numerous complex, strategic and/or innovative transactions (including many firsts in France and Europe) such as international securitization transactions, covered bonds, corporate structured bonds, project bonds, debt funds and the establishment of dedicated origination and refinancing platforms. He also acted on transactions for financing or refinancing purposes (including liquidity), and for off-balance sheet or regulatory capital purposes. As such, he has developed particular skills in handling multi-jurisdictions and multi-practices transactions.

He has developed a substantial experience in the energy and infrastructure sector in the context of financing and refinancing transactions, using classical bank structures as well as Euro PP, bond and project bond structures, specialized credit institutions and dedicated debt funds.

Hervé is described by his clients as a “key person” for structured finance deals, noting: “when we've got a problem, he's there. We know we can count on him”. Clients further comment: “He is dedicated and innovative, and an expert in is field. We see him as a business partner of ours, rather than a lawyer”.

Hervé is an active participant in drafting securitization and structured finance legislation and regulations in France. Hervé regularly publishes and speaks in relation to structure finance markets and related points of interest and deals.

Before joining Orrick in 2016, Hervé was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP where he worked for 20 years, including 18 years as a partner.

胡亚莉 (Yali Hu) 高级律师

北京

胡律师帮助中国、欧洲和美国的多家国内公司以及跨国企业处理有关知识产权各方面的事务，包括根据美国国际贸易委员会（ITC）337条款进行的诉讼。她在专利、商标、域名、版权和商业秘密方面拥有丰富的经验。

胡律师所处理的知识产权方面的工作包括代表客户完成专利申请及后续维护工作。

Ashley Luo 主理律师

旧金山

Ashley works on single plaintiff and class action cases, defending against discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage claims. She also advises employers on employment policies and practices, including compliance with evolving pay transparency laws.

Before becoming a lawyer, Ashley worked in education. She was also a 2020 Pro Bono Orrick Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County, where she practiced eviction defense and special education law.

高级顾问律师

New York

Neil has spent the bulk of his career working on both tax-exempt and taxable financings for public power clients including joint action agencies, municipal utilities and rural electric cooperatives. He has had many roles in these financings including bond counsel, counsel to the underwriters and counsel to credit enhancers.

Over his career, Neil has worked on financings for joint action agencies and municipal utilities such as Gainesville (Florida) Regional Utilities, Intermountain Power Agency, JEA, Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company, Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission, Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power), Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems and WPPI Energy. The transactions in which Neil has participated have included public offerings, private placements, system and project financings, tax-exempt and taxable financings, secured and unsecured debt, senior and subordinated debt, fixed rate and variable rate debt and derivatives and he has had extensive experience in drafting documents for all of these types of financings. In addition, he has considerable experience with all types of disclosure issues encountered by electric utilities.

Neil also has been involved in a number of transactions involving the acquisition of utility companies and/or utility properties.

Recently, Neil represented MEAG Power in the financing of its undivided ownership interest in the first new nuclear generating facilities constructed on U.S. soil in over 30 years, which involved both taxable and tax-exempt capital markets debt, along with U.S. Department of Energy-guaranteed debt, and which was selected by The Financial Times as one of the most Innovative Deals of 2011.

Before joining Orrick, Neil was a partner at Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon in New York.

高级顾问律师

硅谷

Chris has served as first-chair counsel in more than 75 cases, successfully resolving virtually every one of them; and has tried many cases to judgment, in all types of forums, including jury trials, bench trials, the ITC and arbitrations. His cases involve cutting-edge legal issues and run the full gamut of technologies, including data storage, mobile devices, semiconductors, computers, graphical user interfaces, flash memory and many other technologies.

Chris has been recognized by clients, peers, and multiple publications as a leading lawyer in the IP field. He has been honored by The National Law Journal as one of "50 Intellectual Property Trailblazers and Pioneers," by IP Law360 as an Intellectual Property MVP, by Managing Intellectual Property as an "IP Star," by Chambers USA as a Leading Attorney in Intellectual Property, and by The Daily Journal as one of the "Top 75 IP Litigators" in California. A number of his victories have been profiled by The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The National Law Journal and National Public Radio.

胡密苗 (Mimiao Hu) 顾问律师

北京

胡律师的工作包括商标和版权保护战略、知识产权诉讼、不正当竞争、知识产权尽职调查、域名抢注和相关技术问题。她还曾为客户就有关中国军用和军商两用物品的出口法规和海关条例提供法律意见。此外，胡律师也为中外客户处理广泛的网络安全和数据隐私问题。

在加入奥睿之前，胡律师曾于中国一家大型律师事务所的北京和上海办事处担任高级律师。

合伙人

北京; New York

王博士是中国国家海外知识产权纠纷应对指导中心的指导专家。

此外，王博士还在多家机构担任指导专家:深圳知识产权保护中心、浙江省知识产权保护中心、南京市江北新区管理委员会科技创新局、佛山市市场监督管理局知识产权纠纷检验鉴定中心、佛山市知识产权局海外知识产权维权援助中心、汕头市海外知识产权中心以及顺德企业知识产权保护服务中心。

王博士是北京仲裁委员会和北京国际仲裁院的仲裁员。

王博士拥有为国内外跨国企业就其在美国和中国的知识产权事宜提供全方位法律服务之丰富经验，包括与知识产权相关的诉讼与仲裁、专利侵权、工业间谍、商业秘密盗用、版权和商标侵权、ITC 337条款调查、美国专利商标局程序（多方复审程序）、知识产权尽职调查与专利库建立咨询、技术出口管制、大规模侵权与产品责任、证券诉讼、《反海外腐败法》等相关的调查与合规事宜。 这些事宜涉及众多技术领域，从软件与电子产品、可再生能源与医疗设备，乃至农业和建筑材料，此处仅举几例，不一而足。

王博士亦为国内外跨国企业广泛处理网络安全调查和数据隐私合规事宜。

王博士经常处理与中国国有企业相关的美国诉讼事宜。他对客户的业务需求和政治风险具有深入了解，使得客户常常向其寻求具战略性和创新性的法律建议，并赞扬其“了解中国法律体系的环境，能提供细致入微的法律建议”。

王博士是大中华地区最优秀的知识产权律师之一，并且他是极少数同时拥有电子与计算机工程专业博士学位、法学博士学位、中国法律进修文凭，以及在纽约州、印第安纳州和美国专利与商标局拥有律师资格的知识产权律师。由于奥睿的中国知识产权团队成功解决了大量涉及在美国和中国发生的涉及中、外资企业的专利纠纷，中国中央电视台在其摄制的“专利大战”纪录片中独家报道了奥睿的知识产权团队。

在成为律师以前，王博士拥有超过10年于医疗和电子设备行业工作的丰富经验，因能为客户提供实用的法律意见而备受赞誉。此外，王博士还以个人名义荣获四项美国医疗技术专利。

顾问律师

New York

Colby has deep experience in financial services, asset-backed security and mortgage-related litigation, and has been at the forefront of litigation arising out of the financial crisis.

Prior to joining Orrick, he was a Director and senior litigation counsel at Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, where he chaired the firm's Mortgage Securities Litigation Task Force and helped direct the bank's litigation response to the mortgage crisis. He previously practiced law in the New York offices of King & Spalding and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.

高级顾问律师

旧金山

William also has substantial experience with the employee benefit aspects of sales and acquisitions of businesses (including bankruptcy transactions), the restructuring of defined benefit pension plans, the defense of ERISA class action litigation, and public pension plan matters.

His clients include a wide range of large and medium-sized corporations, as well as individual and public clients. He also provides tax and retirement planning advice to many of Orrick's corporate clients.

William has been a frequent lecturer on employee benefits and related individual tax and fiduciary topics for the American Law Institute-American Bar Association; California Continuing Education of the Bar; the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans; the Practicing Law Institute; the Western Pension & Benefits Conference; various Bay Area Estate Planning Councils; and other organizations.

William became a senior counsel in 2013 after having been an Orrick partner since 1999.  Before joining Orrick, William was a partner at the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop LLP in San Francisco.

高级顾问律师

New York

何栢年 (David Halperin) 资深法律顾问

在就读法学院之前，何律师在1966至1970年间为美国海军服务，曾担任美国海军后备队的少校。他在1969至1970年间亦担任过美国驻越海军Admiral E.R. Zumwalt中校（其后担任美国海军作战部长）的特别助理。在1970至1971年间，何律师更担任美国总统国家安全事务助理Henry Kissinger博士的私人助理。毕业于法学院后，他在1974至1976年间任职于纽约的美国达维律师事务所，并在1976年加入美国高特兄弟律师事务所香港办事处，在1983年获升任为合伙人。何律师在2005年加入奥睿的香港办事处，现为本所的资深合伙人。