Ramy advises public and private companies and their financial sponsors in the technology and life sciences sectors on complex, strategic transactions, including cross-border M&A, joint ventures, and multi-jurisdictional carve-outs. He also counsels boards and investors on fiduciary duties and other corporate governance matters.
Ramy is a member of the board of directors of Crisis Text Line, a global not-for-profit organization providing free mental health texting service. He has been recognized as a "Rising Star" in M&A by Super Lawyers.
Select Transactions
Workday in connection with multiple transactions, including its pending acquisitions of Sana Labs and Paradox, and its acquisitions of Flowise, Evisort, HiredScore, VNDLY, Peakon and Zimit.
Trimble in connection with its sale of Spatial Dimension to an affiliate of Vela Software, its global divestment of four businesses to The Jordan Company, and its acquisition of several software companies, including: StructShare, Bilberry, Azteca Systems LLC (dba “Cityworks”); Vianova Systems AS; Nexala Ltd.; Manhattan Software Group Ltd.; and certain other confidential non-public transactions.
Marvell Technology in connection with multiple transactions, including its acquisition of Tanzanite Silicon Solutions.
Coda in connection with its acquisition by Grammarly.
Beacon Platform in connection with its acquisition by Clearwater Analytics.
Bayer AG in connection with multiple transactions, including: the divestment of Bayer's West Sacramento biologics R&D site to Ginkgo Bioworks and related multi-year strategic partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks to accelerate R&D of biologics projects for agriculture; the sale of its global vegetable seeds business to BASF (announced deal value $1.19 billion); the formation of its BlueRock Therapeutics joint venture with Versant Ventures and subsequent acquisition of BlueRock Therapeutics (announced enterprise value $1 billion); its $215 million investment in Century Therapeutics, LLC; its cumulative investment of over $50 million in One Drop as lead investor in One Drop's Series B and Series C financings; its Unfold Bio joint venture with Temasek; its Joyn Bio joint venture with Ginkgo Bioworks; its Oerth Bio joint venture with Arvinas and related investment in Arvinas; its investment in the US$45 million Series C financing of Sound Agriculture; and several other strategic investments of Leaps by Bayer in an array of emerging growth life science companies.
FormFactor in connection with its $100 million divestment of FRT metrology.
Motorola Solutions in the sale of its Enterprise Mobility business to Zebra Technologies (announced deal value US$3.45 billion) (international aspects only) and certain other confidential non-public transactions.
Zynga in its $250 million acquisition of Chartboost.
Luminar Technologies in connection with its acquisitions of Freedom Photonics and Civil Maps.
Maxim Integrated Products in its acquisitions of Trinamic Motion Control BmBH and Icron Technologies; the sale of its MEMs business to Hanking Industrial; the sale/outsourcing of its manufacturing facility in San Antonio to TowerJazz; the sale of its smart meter/energy monitoring business to Silergy; the sale of its capacitive touch business to Qualcomm; and several other confidential non-public transactions.
Agilent Technologies in its spinoff of its electronic measurement business (known as Keysight Technologies).
NetScout Systems in connection with its acquisition of Danaher’s communication business (announced deal value US$2.6 billion) (international aspects only).
Symantec Corporation in the sale of its information management business (dba “Veritas”) to The Carlyle Group (announced deal value US$8 billion) (international aspects only).
Gary has handled numerous class actions, pattern and practice cases and government audits, Most recently, Gary served as senior counsel on the Orrick team that obtained a complete dismissal for Oracle in OFCCP v. Oracle, a high-stakes systemic compensation discrimination case that garnered national media attention. Gary and the Orrick team was named "Litigator of the Week" by American Lawyer for their role in the successful defense of Oracle in litigation against the OFCCP. He brings a particularly unique perspective to clients on matters involving the EEOC, having served as regional counsel and senior trial attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in San Francisco prior to joining Orrick.
Gary’s counseling practice extends beyond the United States and includes assisting U.S. multinational companies in dealing with complex employee issues in foreign jurisdictions
Gary is widely recognized as one the top management employment lawyers in the United States by every major ranking organization, including Chambers USA, the National Law Journal, Best of the Best USA (Euromoney), and Who’s Who Legal. Among management employment lawyers in the United States and Europe, Gary is ranked in the top 10 of Who’s Who international management labor and employment lawyers and is described as “absolutely superb.”
Gary also serves regularly on the NYU faculty for training federal judges on employment law, the OFCCP Institute, PLI International Employment Law and ABA Labor and Employment Law Section programs.
Steve serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel in a variety of municipal enterprise revenue bond issuances, including financing for water, wastewater, solid waste and airport facilities. His practice is, in addition, focused on single family and multifamily affordable housing financings. Steve also has extensive experience in higher education financings, interest rate swaps and swap based products in the municipal market. He often assumes a leading role in bond and disclosure work for new and complex clients.
In his municipal finance practice, John has served as bond counsel, special tax counsel and underwriter’s counsel for a variety of transactions, including particularly governmental, airport, and public power financings. John has represented issuers and borrowers before the Internal Revenue Service in connection with audits, private letter rulings, and requests pursuant to the voluntary closing agreement program (VCAP).
John has worked with issuers to establish post-issuance compliance programs tailored to their specific financings, and also has significant experience with tax-exempt commercial paper programs for both governmental and exempt facilities. John is a regular speaker at various conferences focused on public finance and tax, including conferences organized by the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the American Bar Association Tax Section, and the California Bond Buyer Conference. John is serving as Chair of the National Association of Bond Lawyers' "The Institute" conference in 2024.
Alex is based out of Orrick's San Francisco and Los Angeles offices and represents clients across California in their most critical employment law disputes. Legal 500 has recognized Alex as a "stand-out" attorney "who communicates quickly, confidently, and efficiently" and noted that she is "prepared, firm, and patient in depositions, with opposing counsel and with witnesses, and thinks very well on her feet." A thought leader in the employment law space, Alex is active on the Executive Committee for the California Lawyers Association (CLA) Labor and Employment Section and is an Editor-in-Chief of the CLA Labor & Employment Law Review. Alex also serves on the Executive Committee for the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) Labor and Employment Law Section.
Alex's north star is understanding a client's business objectives first, whether in litigation or counseling matters. Alex defends employers in class, collective, and representative actions alleging wage and hour violations, discrimination, and other claims under federal and state laws, including Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) claims. She also routinely defends employers in high-stakes single plaintiff cases involving contract disputes, leaves and accommodations, and allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblowing, wrongful termination, and trade secrets misappropriation. In her counseling practice, Alex provides bespoke counseling advice to management, designs workplace policies and procedures, and offers creative and practical solutions to address a wide range of employment issues including new and developing areas of the law.
Orrick’s Employment Law and Litigation group was recently named Labor & Employment Department of the Year in California for the fourth consecutive year by The Recorder, the premier source for legal news, in recognition of their significant wins on behalf of leading multinational companies on today’s most complex and challenging employment law matters.
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