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- Public Finance
- Restructuring
- 公共电力融资
- Derivatives
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.
Practice:
- Technology & Innovation Sector
- 知识产权
- Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
- China
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。
Practice:
- 知识产权
- Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
- Patents
- Trade Secrets Litigation
- 知识产权咨询与尽职调查
- Mass Torts & Product Liability
- Antitrust & Competition
- International Trade and Investment
- White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
- Employment Law & Litigation
- Trademark, Copyright & Media
- China
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, 复杂诉讼与争议解决
New York
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.
Practice:
- Compensation & Benefits
- 雇员退休收入保障法（ERISA）与福利诉讼
- 合资格退休计划与员工持股计划（ESOP）
- 福利计划
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.
Practice:
- Structured Finance
- Asset‐Backed Securities
- Banking & Finance
- Equity Capital Markets
- Derivatives
- 掉期与其他对冲
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。
Practice:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Capital Markets
- China
Practice:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- China
汪凡 (Fan Martha Wang) 主理律师
北京
汪律师经常为中国和国际客户就跨境并购、私募股权投融资、企业合营、外商直接投资和其他合规事宜提供法律意见。
她代表的客户来自诸多行业，包括电信、媒体和科技、金融服务、医疗保健、消费品、能源和制造业等。
此外，她在处理首次公开发行、债券和证券发行、上市前投资，以及公司重组、劳动法、反垄断和一般公司事宜方面拥有丰富的经验。
Practice:
- Banking & Finance
- Real Estate
- Public Finance
Thomas Coleman 高级顾问律师
旧金山
Before his retirement as a partner, he was also the Partner-in-Charge of Lawyer Development for a number of years. While still practicing, he served at times as the firm’s General Counsel, Executive Director, Peer Review Committee Chair and member of the Partner Compensation Committee. He still acts as an advisor to the firm on matters affecting lawyer development.
Tom concentrated his practice in banking and commercial transactions. He represented banks and other financial institutions in a variety of transactions, including syndicated and single-lender credit agreements (both secured and unsecured), project financings, public finance transactions, and “synthetic” and other lease arrangements. As a lecturer and panelist, Tom frequently spoke at seminars on a range of topics related to his practice.
He served for several years as co-counsel of the International Bankers Association in California. He has been a member of the State Bar of California’s Business Law Section’s Financial Institutions Committee and Uniform Commercial Code Committee. In addition, he has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony’s Business Gifts Committee.
Before joining Orrick, Tom was Vice President and Counsel at California First Bank (now Union Bank of California) in San Francisco. He was a visiting attorney at Clifford-Turner (now Clifford Chance), Solicitors, in London.
Practice:
- Finance Sector
- Equity Capital Markets
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- China
- Africa
孙捷 (Jie Jeffrey Sun) 合伙人
北京
孙律师也具有代表中国企业募集资金或在海外投资，以及为外国投资者在中国进行投资的丰富经验。
孙律师经常代表发行人及承销商在美国及香港进行公开证券发行，包括代表中国企业进行首次公开发行及根据美国144A规则和S条例的证券发行。
另外，孙律师在为众多外国投资者和中国公司处理复杂的跨国并购、外国直接投资、战略联盟、企业合营和监管合规方面具有丰富经验。他还为全球私募股权基金在整个大中华地区以及亚洲的投资活动提供法律咨询。
他曾代表的客户包括光明食品、京东集团、天合光能、中电电气光伏、完美世界、昱辉阳光、土豆网、文思海辉，以及一些国际投资银行和私募股权基金等。
孙律师一直获得《钱伯斯亚洲》、《亚太法律500强》和《国际金融法律评论1000强》等著名法律出版物评为中国并购业务的领先律师。其客户赞扬他是“一位优秀的商业伙伴，担任比其法律顾问更重要的角色”，他“不单以其法律知识提供法律建议，而是给予真正有助我们业务的实用意见”。
在加入奥睿之前，孙律师曾在一家大型国际律师事务所任职，也曾在上海一家本地律师事务所担任合伙人。