New York
Jake provides strategic advice and counsel to startup founders and high-growth technology companies, as well as venture capital and other private equity funds.
He has broad experience in corporate and transactional matters, including venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate formation and governance matters. He works closely with founders and technology company clients from a wide variety of industries to provide outside general counsel services and strategic business insights.
Jake also works extensively with venture capital and other private equity funds in their investment activities in the US and internationally, including early-stage to growth equity financings, mergers and acquisitions and secondary liquidity transactions.
Santa Monica
Ben’s diverse practice focuses on disputes where an understanding of technology and business is essential. Ben’s civil litigation practice includes trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and funder / founder disputes, through arbitration and trial and on appeal. Ben also has extensive experience in government enforcement actions before the SEC and FTC, as well as federal criminal matters ranging from fraud to FCPA to export controls. He has also conducted numerous internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients. Clients praise Ben’s understanding of the tech ecosystem, responsiveness, and practical, solutions-oriented business judgment.
Ben is committed to impacting his community and maintains an active pro bono practice, including representation and collaboration with the ACLU, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Equality California, on issues ranging from religious freedom, school integration, reproductive rights, privacy from government surveillance, and the right for same-sex couples to marry.
Ben currently serves on the Board of Directors of 826LA, a non-profit organization providing literacy and writing programs for children in underserved areas of Los Angeles. Since 2018, Ben has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He currently co-chairs its White-Collar Crime Committee and is the vice-chair of its Ninth Circuit Amicus Committee. Ben previously served on the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee, representing Northern and Southern California. The judges of the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit appointed Ben to serve as an appellate lawyer representative to the court.
Santa Monica
Ben’s diverse practice focuses on disputes where an understanding of technology and business is essential. Ben’s civil litigation practice includes trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and funder / founder disputes, through arbitration and trial and on appeal. Ben also has extensive experience in government enforcement actions before the SEC and FTC, as well as federal criminal matters ranging from fraud to FCPA to export controls. He has also conducted numerous internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients. Clients praise Ben’s understanding of the tech ecosystem, responsiveness, and practical, solutions-oriented business judgment.
Ben is committed to impacting his community and maintains an active pro bono practice, including representation and collaboration with the ACLU, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Equality California, on issues ranging from religious freedom, school integration, reproductive rights, privacy from government surveillance, and the right for same-sex couples to marry.
Ben currently serves on the Board of Directors of 826LA, a non-profit organization providing literacy and writing programs for children in underserved areas of Los Angeles. Since 2018, Ben has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He currently co-chairs its White-Collar Crime Committee and is the vice-chair of its Ninth Circuit Amicus Committee. Ben previously served on the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee, representing Northern and Southern California. The judges of the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit appointed Ben to serve as an appellate lawyer representative to the court.
Boston; Chicago
Gregg represents companies in all stages of their life cycles, from start-ups to public companies, and in a variety of industries including, software, hardware, information services, financial services, financial technology, consumer goods, fashion, media, energy, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. He advises these companies in many aspects of their businesses including financings, corporate governance, employment matters, acquisitions, divestitures, licensing and distribution arrangements, and joint ventures and strategic partnerships.
Gregg also represents venture capital firms in their formation, fundraising efforts and maintenance, as well as in their investments in early and later stage operating companies and in complex leveraged transactions and restructurings. Gregg has worked with a number of leading technology and life science companies in connection with their initial and follow-on public offerings, M&A activities and leading investment banks in their underwriting of public equity and debt offerings.
Gregg has received praise from numerous peer publications, including Best Lawyers (Technology Law, Massachusetts) and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Go-To Lawyer for Healthcare/Life Sciences).
Boston; Chicago
Gregg represents companies in all stages of their life cycles, from start-ups to public companies, and in a variety of industries including, software, hardware, information services, financial services, financial technology, consumer goods, fashion, media, energy, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. He advises these companies in many aspects of their businesses including financings, corporate governance, employment matters, acquisitions, divestitures, licensing and distribution arrangements, and joint ventures and strategic partnerships.
Gregg also represents venture capital firms in their formation, fundraising efforts and maintenance, as well as in their investments in early and later stage operating companies and in complex leveraged transactions and restructurings. Gregg has worked with a number of leading technology and life science companies in connection with their initial and follow-on public offerings, M&A activities and leading investment banks in their underwriting of public equity and debt offerings.
Gregg has received praise from numerous peer publications, including Best Lawyers (Technology Law, Massachusetts) and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Go-To Lawyer for Healthcare/Life Sciences).
Milan
Emanuela is Special Counsel in Orrick’s Milan office and a member of the firm’s M&A and Private Equity Group.
Emanuela assists Italian and multinational companies in all phases of M&A transactions, from initial structuring to negotiation and closing. Her practice includes advising on day-to-day corporate governance, commercial contracts, and high-profile strategic projects. She is experienced in supporting clients with their ongoing operational needs as well as with special projects that require tailored legal solutions. In recent years, she has developed particular experience advising on M&A transactions in the industrial sector.
Her clients also include private equity and venture capital funds, merchant banks, family offices, and business owners in the context of private equity transactions aiming at the expansion of their business in Italy and abroad. She regularly assists funds investing across a range of industries, including food, textiles, and manufacturing.
Milan
Emanuela is Special Counsel in Orrick’s Milan office and a member of the firm’s M&A and Private Equity Group.
Emanuela assists Italian and multinational companies in all phases of M&A transactions, from initial structuring to negotiation and closing. Her practice includes advising on day-to-day corporate governance, commercial contracts, and high-profile strategic projects. She is experienced in supporting clients with their ongoing operational needs as well as with special projects that require tailored legal solutions. In recent years, she has developed particular experience advising on M&A transactions in the industrial sector.
Her clients also include private equity and venture capital funds, merchant banks, family offices, and business owners in the context of private equity transactions aiming at the expansion of their business in Italy and abroad. She regularly assists funds investing across a range of industries, including food, textiles, and manufacturing.
New York
She handles complex individual cases, as well as class actions and systemic government investigations. She represents a broad range of companies, including employers in the securities industry, banks and financial institutions, accounting firms, law firms, and employers in the technology and media industries. Jill also has particular proficiency in the representation of nonprofit entities, including colleges, universities, hospitals, foundations and cultural institutions.
She designs and conducts training programs for clients and frequently speaks on employment law issues for employer and bar association groups such as National Employment Law Institute, Practising Law Institute, National Association of College and University Attorneys and the New York State Bar Association.
Portland
Doug is senior partner with decades of experience in public finance and municipal bond law, including federal, state and tribal tax and securities law issues.
Doug serves as bond counsel for the State of Alaska, the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority, the Washington Economic Development Finance Authority, the Oregon Department of Transportation, the State of Oregon concerning the issuance of General Obligation Bonds for Higher Education and Oregon Health and Science University. Doug also serves as the primary lead bond counsel for the Oregon Facilities Authority on higher education, hospital and other conduit 501(c)(3) revenue bond issues.
Doug has also served as bond counsel, underwriters counsel or borrowers counsel on conduit revenue bonds in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Portland
Doug is senior partner with decades of experience in public finance and municipal bond law, including federal, state and tribal tax and securities law issues.
Doug serves as bond counsel for the State of Alaska, the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority, the Washington Economic Development Finance Authority, the Oregon Department of Transportation, the State of Oregon concerning the issuance of General Obligation Bonds for Higher Education and Oregon Health and Science University. Doug also serves as the primary lead bond counsel for the Oregon Facilities Authority on higher education, hospital and other conduit 501(c)(3) revenue bond issues.
Doug has also served as bond counsel, underwriters counsel or borrowers counsel on conduit revenue bonds in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Among the attributes that contributed to his Hall of Fame selection were:
In addition to his selection by The Bond Buyer for its Public Finance Hall of Fame, Roger is ranked Band 1 by Chambers, and as Acritas Star Lawyer by Acritas, as Dealmaker of the Year (twice) by American Lawyer, as “best,” “super,” “most honored,” “preeminent” or “lawyer of the year” by several other publications, and declared “the Bond King” in a cover article by California Lawyer.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Among the attributes that contributed to his Hall of Fame selection were:
In addition to his selection by The Bond Buyer for its Public Finance Hall of Fame, Roger is ranked Band 1 by Chambers, and as Acritas Star Lawyer by Acritas, as Dealmaker of the Year (twice) by American Lawyer, as “best,” “super,” “most honored,” “preeminent” or “lawyer of the year” by several other publications, and declared “the Bond King” in a cover article by California Lawyer.