Based in Orrick Paris Tech Studio, Sam combines a business-driven approach to legal work with a passion for innovation, helping high-growth companies raise capital and scale efficiently.
Sam advises founders, startups and investors on venture capital and tech growth financings, corporate governance, employee incentive plans, build-ups and exit/M&A transactions. His experience includes a wide range of financing rounds (more than 50 from Seed to Series F), external growth operations, and exits, with companies such as Mistral AI, Homa, BeReal, amo, Poolside, Payfit, etc…, and French and US VCs (Sequoia, Serena, Frst, Fabric), bringing a broad range of expertise to tech-focused transactions across the board.
With his French-US background and experience, Sam helps founders of French companies expand into the US market and supports US investors entering the French Tech ecosystem, by helping bridge the cultural gap.
As the co-founder of a legal tech startup (pome.gr), he applies a product-driven mindset to his legal work and helps startups streamline legal processes and improve efficiency with innovative solutions. Sam is a member of Orrick Digital Council’s Core Group and leads innovation initiatives within the Paris office.
Outside the office, Sam experiments with the latest tech gadgets, always searching for new ways to push the boundaries of innovation.
Perry represents and advises entrepreneurs, companies, fund sponsors, family offices, tax-exempt organizations, and other asset owners across a wide range of transactions, including corporate legal matters, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private fund formation matters and portfolio transactions, and private placements. Perry advises clients on impact-oriented and ESG matters, integrating social, environmental, and financial outcomes into a comprehensive strategy. Orrick’s Impact Finance & Investment practices serves a global client base across a range of sectors, leveraging Orrick’s unique capabilities to provide innovative, effective, and thoughtful legal services to those clients aiming to create positive social and environmental change alongside targeted financial returns.
Perry serves as co-chair of the NYU Law Grunin Center/Impact Investing Legal Working Group’s annual conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing and is involved in other sector building initiatives.
Perry served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kazakhstan, where he supported the development of businesses aiming to create mobility and opportunity for people with disabilities in the region. Perry is an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow and member of the ROI Community and Nexus. A native of the Detroit area and University of Michigan graduate, Perry remains committed to the Detroit area, supporting Detroit expat initiatives.
She acts on corporate transactions including leveraged buy-outs, management buy-outs, minority participations and expansion or growth financings as well as M&A transactions, often with cross-border aspects.
Before joining Orrick, she had been an associate in the private equity group of a U.S. headquartered law firm. As part of her legal clerkship, Maria worked for another U.S. law firm and a leading German law firm, among others.
Guido's practice focuses mainly on M&A, private equity, venture capital and joint venture transactions, as well as on corporate law and commercial contracts. In these areas, he represents primary enterprises, merchant banks, private equity and venture capital funds, as well as investment holding companies and family offices, both in domestic and cross-border transactions.
Stephen’s practice focuses on the representation of life science, medical device, health IT, and other technology companies in transactional matters, including public and private financings, licensing, collaborations and strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. He also represents venture capital firms in public and private financing transactions.
Stephen is recognized as a Leading Life Sciences Lawyer by LMG Life Sciences in their 2021/2022 rankings and short-listed as Venture Capital Attorney of the Year. He has served as a member of the Board of Tech Council of Maryland, the leading technology and life science association in that state, and of BayBio, Northern California’s leading life sciences association. Stephen is a frequent speaker on venture capital financings and served on the faculty at the 2005 and 2007 Emerging Entrepreneurs workshops at Stanford University.
Prior to joining Orrick, Stephen was a partner at Morrison & Foerster, Venture Law Group and Heller Ehrman. He began his legal practice as a litigator, focusing on securities and intellectual property. He also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Vaughn R. Walker in the United States District Court in the Northern District of California. Stephen graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in Biology.
Darrell has experience in a wide range of traditional real
estate matters, including drafting and negotiating development agreements,
construction contracts, restrictions agreements, purchase and sale agreements,
ground leases, facility and office leases, and construction and permanent loan
documents. He has also formed commercial and residential condominium regimes,
including for mixed uses. He represents developers and users in acquisition and
development matters, including requirements for access, utilities, detention,
drainage, use restrictions and economic incentive arrangements. He also
represents lenders in commercial mortgage loan originations, workouts and
foreclosures.
Darrell also works on all aspects of real property
requirements for energy and other projects, including drafting and negotiating
leases, easements and other real property agreements, satisfying title
insurance requirements, reviewing and revising property tax abatement
agreements and resolving conflicts between mineral and surface
development. connection with renewable energy projects, including the development,
construction, financing, acquisition and disposition of projects.
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