Giuseppe regularly assists private equity funds, industrial players and families/entrepreneurs in M&A and Private Equity transactions in Italy, including in competitive auction processes, carve-outs, minority investments, exits, joint ventures and cross-border acquisitions. Giuseppe's notable transactions include the sale of the industrial group Fassi Gru to Investindustrial, CVC Capital Partners' purchase of Business Integration Partners S.p.A., Fondo Italiano d'Investimento's acquisition of Mecaer Aviation Group S.p.A., the sale of Salpa&Cherubini S.r.l. to Apheon, and Mitsubishi Chemical's acquisition of C.P.C. S.r.l.
He received his law degree cum laude from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in 2019 and has been a member of the Milan Bar since 2022.
He is also a member of Orrick's Leasing Practice Group, Assessment/Mello-Roos Practice Group, and Revenue Practice Group. Don has extensive experience, as bond counsel, disclosure counsel
and underwriter's counsel, in the financing techniques used by school and
community college districts, cities and counties
in California. His practice focuses on local governmental infrastructure
financing, including general obligation bond financing, municipal lease
financing, and land-secured financing, as well as tax
and revenue anticipation note (TRAN), pension obligation and other post-employment
benefit (OPEB) obligation financings. Don serves as the lead lawyer for
the California School Boards Association's annual tax and revenue anticipation
note pool.
Alex's practice focuses on drafting and negotiating offtake agreements, including physical and virtual power purchase agreements, capacity sales agreements and tolling agreements for solar, storage, wind and first-of-a-kind projects. Alex's offtake practice also includes advising on data center load agreements, carbon credit agreements, and aggregated distributed energy resources. Alex also advises on other project development and project M&A matters.
Prior to joining Orrick, Alex was an associate at another leading law firm where he focused on advising domestic and international corporate buyers, developers, investors, lenders, and sponsors in the acquisition and sale, development, financing, and offtake of energy projects.
He advises publicly held and privately owned (including sponsor-backed) companies, financial institutions, credit funds and other alternative lenders in connection with broadly syndicated loans, pro rata (bank-only) credit facilities and a wide variety of private credit transactions (including senior secured, junior lien, senior subordinated and mezzanine loans). His experience also extends to asset-based loans, project financings, debt restructurings and workouts. In addition, Zach regularly represents technology companies on various types of growth capital financings used to rapidly expand their businesses and to deploy new and market-disrupting products and services.
Zach has a particular passion for the digital infrastructure sector, stemming from his extensive experience representing data center operators, service providers, lenders and investors in the space. As one of the leaders of Orrick’s multidisciplinary data center practice, he is well-versed in traditional and increasingly bespoke financing structures to address the unique needs and challenges of clients in this ever-evolving industry.
In the 2025 California Banking & Finance category of Chambers USA, clients praise Zach as “a phenomenal” and describe him as “extremely aware of the market and a great resource when it comes to debt financing.” He is also recognized by IFLR1000, where clients note that Zach “is an outstanding business partner” and “his strengths are his creativity, accessibility, diligence and his ability to bring all of Orrick's resources to bear.”
Zach previously served a three-year term on the Commercial Transactions Committee (formerly called the Uniform Commercial Code Committee) of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, acting as its Co-Chair for the final year of his term.
Léa assists startups and more mature technology companies in all stages of their development, from their creation to their fundraising operations and eventual sale.
Léa assists entrepreneurs in the development and implementation of governance strategies and employee incentive plans tailored to their needs.
She is particularly interested in the DeepTech and MedTech sectors.
Outside her practice, she lectures on venture capital at the EDHEC Business School.
Before joining Orrick, Brad worked as U.S. regulatory counsel for a major on-line gaming company, during which he facilitated expansion of the U.S. operations, negotiated multiple market-access agreements and oversaw licensing and compliance functions across multiple jurisdictions.
Prior to his private sector experience, Brad was a regulator with the New York State Gaming Commission, Deputy County Executive for Albany (N.Y.) County and Legislative Counsel to the Hon. Eric Adams and other elected officials in the New York State Senate. During his time at the New York State Gaming Commission, Brad was director of interactive fantasy sports and legal counsel on commercial gaming issues, after having served a key role in the selection and vetting of applicants for multiple “Las Vegas” style resort casinos licenses. While in the New York State Senate, Brad served as Counsel to the Senate Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering and developed a depth of experience with legislative issues facing the gaming, equine industries and state-run lotteries.
Brad is a graduate of Indiana University-Bloomington School of Law and Union College, where he received a B.A. in Political Science.
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