For years, Anna has worked with companies at all stages of their life cycles to find legal solutions that advance the goals of their business. With a particular passion for helping early to mid-stage technology and life sciences companies, Anna deeply knows the challenges these companies face and is able to provide practical solutions on a wide variety of day-to-day employment law issues, including leave and other accommodations, worker classifications, onboarding, performance management and terminations. Disruptors and innovators in the tech space face unique challenges and require advisors who are willing to jump in and immerse themselves in the company as a whole, and Anna happily works to understand her clients’ company culture and long-term goals while helping them effectively meet short-term legal challenges.
Anna also guides companies through the employment challenges that can accompany financings, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings. Her litigation background, defending companies in employment litigation matters involving co-founder disputes, misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information, employee mobility, discrimination/harassment, wage and hour, equity and token grants, and other compensation related issues, informs her approach to counseling and allows her to identify and address issues before a problem becomes contentious. In the event of threatened or actual litigation, Anna is prepared to aggressively litigate disputes to achieve the best outcomes for her clients.
Artyc PBC (refrigerant-free cold storage and shipping; funded by Lowercarbon Capital, True Ventures and SOSV)
AIMotive, Inc. (autonomous vehicle software; funded by Robert Bosch Venture Capital; Tim Draper and others)
Alta Reality (virtual reality; funded by a16z and others)
EarnUp (loan optimization platform; funded by Blumburg Capital and SignalFire)
Earth.AI Inc. (AI-enabled platform for mineral discovery; Y Combinator)
Earthshot Labs (platform for nature-based carbon sequestration projects; funded by Acorn Pacific Ventures)
Fountain Therapeutics (discovery and development of treatments for aging-associated diseases; undisclosed investors)
Goodly Inc. (student loan repayment as an employee benefit; Y Combinator)
Grabango (checkout-free technology; funded by Propel Venture Partners, Ridge Ventures and Commerce Ventures)
Hangar One Vodka (acquired by Jose Cuervo)
JOSH.AI (AI control for the smart homes; undisclosed investors)
Kloudfuse (AI-enabled unified data observability platform; funded by Blumberg Capital, Newlands and others)
Matterport (3D scanning solutions; Nasdaq MTTR)
Mayfield Robotics (home robots)
Medcorder Inc. (healthcare tech; funded by Future Ventures)
Movidius (computational image processor chips; funded by DFJ Esprit; Atlantic Bridge and others; sold to Intel)
Neptune Flood Incorporated (AI-enabled insurtech solutions for flood insurance; funded by Bregal Sagemount and FTV Capital)
Planet Labs (satellite data company; NYSE: PL)
Quidnet Energy Inc. (energy storage; funded by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Evok Innovations)
Radiant Graph (AI platform to drive personalization for healthcare organizations; funded by True Ventures and M13)
Safehub (earthquake sensors; funded by A/O PropTech, Fusion Fund, Ubiquity Ventures and others)
Samasource Impact Sourcing (machine learning training; funded by Ridge Ventures and CDPQ)
SquareTwo (casual games; funded by Walden Ventures and Translink)
St. George Spirits (spirits company focused on single malt whiskey, bourbon, agricole rum, absinthe, gin, brandies and liqueurs)
StartOut (LGBTQ+ entrepreneurship accelerator)
Tempo Interactive (home fitness platform; funded by Softbank, Norwest Ventures, General Catalyst and others)
TS Conductor (next generation conductor technology; funded by Breakthrough Energy Ventures)
Unison (proptech; funded by F-Prime and RBC)
Zeguro Inc. (insuretech - cyberinsurance; funded by Mosaik Partners; Healthy Ventures, Social Capital and others)
Mike also represents a number of venture capital firms, including Blumberg Capital,Evok Innovations,Griffin Gaming Partners,iGlobe Partners, Illuminate Ventures, Marcy Venture Partners, Ridge Ventures and WaldenVenture Capital.
She has extensive experience working on regulatory compliance at the state level, advising on energy purchase and storage, resource adequacy, central procurement, renewables portfolio standard, integrated resource planning, reliability, distributed energy resources, energy efficiency, microgrid commercialization and offshore wind development.
She represents developers, power producers, community choice aggregators and utilities in bilateral negotiations for the purchase and sale of energy resources, including solar, wind and geothermal resources.
Rose has experience litigating patents from the investigatory, pre-suit phase, discovery, expert discovery phase up to trial and post-trial. Rose’s experience in technology ranges from complex server systems, semiconductors, electronic ticketing software/hardware, to shavers and pharmaceuticals. Rose has experience litigating small molecule drugs under the Hatch-Waxman framework and biologics under the BPCIA. Her wide range of technological experience and understanding allows her to simplify complex technology into digestible key components for judges and juries. Rose helped secure a General Exclusion Order for a small business client in front of the International Trade Commission, and was part of a team that secured a favorable settlement for Gilead in protecting their blockbuster HIV drugs Descovy, Odefsey and Vemlidy. The suit involved nine generic drug companies and 15 abbreviated drug applications and resulted in a favorable settlement barring generic entry for at least 10 years.
As part of a lean team, Rose helped secure a $17.3 million royalty for Continuous Composites, which is currently the largest award in the 3D printing industry.
In law school, Rose won the prestigious Anthony and Susan Taylor Written Advocacy Award for Best Brief, and a semifinalist in the Oral Advocacy portion of the Hale Moot Court competition. During law school, Rose also clerked at the Children’s Law Center of California, and advocated for abused and disenfranchised children in the Los Angeles county dependency court.
Her zealous pro bono work and advocacy continues beyond law school. Recently, Rose secured a crucial and timely win for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund in convincing the Western District of Texas from enjoining the enforcement of unconstitutional provisions of the Texas Election Code in light of the 2022 Primary Elections.
She advises start-ups from their incorporation through their first financing rounds into the growth phase, as well as on internationalization projects. Kim also advises VCs and corporate venture capital investors on their investments.
Before starting her legal practice, Kim worked as a trainee lawyer for, amongst others, the EU’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), for one of the most renown German law firms as well as for Orrick.
A leading cybersecurity and online safety authority, Aravind is recognized by Chambers USA in Privacy and Data Security in both Litigation and Incident Response. Clients describe him as “a very talented lawyer experienced with incident responses” and “incredibly responsive and technically savvy.”
Aravind’s deep knowledge of his clients’ business objectives and technological capabilities distinguishes him as a strategic advisor and frontline crisis responder. He advises some of the world’s leading online platforms, public and private financial institutions, tech companies, higher education institutions, and critical infrastructure providers on cybersecurity, and their obligations to monitor and remove harmful or illegal content online and root out instances of child exploitation.
He is adept at guiding companies through cybersecurity incidents, having directed more than 500 data breach investigations, including enterprise-wide network intrusions to cyberattacks with national security implications. Aravind defends clients in an array of cybersecurity and privacy class actions and regulatory enforcement actions brought by the SEC, FTC, NY DFS and State AGs, and also represents individual C-level executives in criminal and civil regulatory enforcement matters.
As a former assistant United States attorney, he investigated and prosecuted a broad array of cybercrime, child exploitation cases, digital crimes, and white-collar crime cases. This first-hand knowledge of federal agencies allows him to navigate the system, partner with investigators and find creative solutions for clients.
Aravind is a member of Orrick’s Board of Directors, and he devotes much of his free time to advising independent schools on AI, online safety, and cybersecurity, and teaching and coaching.
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