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Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group

Chapin Scaggs Managing Associate

Boston

Chapin focuses on representing high-growth technology companies of all sizes throughout their life-cycles-- from general formation and corporate governance through to venture capital and private equity financings.  He also advises investors and venture capital firms in their investments in early and high growth technology companies.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology & Innovation
  • Technology Transactions
  • Intellectual Property
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)

Sarah Schaedler Partner

San Francisco

Sarah’s practice focuses on structuring and negotiating the intellectual property aspects of complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, business divestitures and commercial transactions where software and technology are the principal assets. Sarah also advises on intellectual property and technology contracts related questions in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Sarah routinely advises on carve-outs and business separation transactions and helps clients with structuring and implementing their intellectual property and technology separation roadmap.

Sarah has counseled several companies in their preparation for a divestiture and understands the issues a buyer is focused on in the context of intellectual property matters. She regularly helps companies implement remediation steps around their intellectual property assets to help them to a successful closing.

She has significant experience advising private equity funds on investments involving companies that are driven by technology & innovation, as well as intellectual property reliant consumer product companies and companies that are stepping into digitalization.

Sarah is also a member of Orrick’s AI leadership group and involved in thought leadership projects related to AI matters on corporate transactions.

Educated and trained in Germany, France and the United States, Sarah’s international experience provides her with additional knowledge on cross-border transactions and international matters.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector
  • Technology Companies Group

Jay Wilder Schau Senior Associate

San Francisco

Jay represents high growth technology companies in several areas, including corporate and securities law, formation, and venture capital financings.

Jay received his JD from the University of Michigan in 2017. He is also a 2014 graduate of the University of Alabama where he double majored in Economics and Finance.

Prior to joining Orrick, Jay worked as a Bates Fellow at The Silicon Cape Initiative in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked to grow the tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem in and around the Western Cape.

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Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation
  • Cross Border Employment Law Issues

Asalia Melanie Scheibner, LL.M. (UCLA) Associate

Düsseldorf

Prior to joining Orrick, Asalia Melanie Scheibner gained experience at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a leading global French consumer goods company, and several international law firms.

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Practice:

  • Banking & Finance
  • Private Credit

Andrew Schmidt Associate

New York

Drew is a managing associate in Orrick’s New York office and a member of the Banking and Finance group.  He advises funds, investment advisors, sponsors and corporate borrowers on the full spectrum of financings, including direct lending transactions, first lien-second lien facilities, superpriority revolvers, recurring revenue loans, refinancings, hybrid debt-equity instruments and other bespoke structures. Drew represents clients from the origination of the deal to repayment, conversion or satisfaction, and he has hands-on experience with enforcement actions and remedies. 

Benjamin Schnier Project Attorney

Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)

Benjamin uses a process-driven approach and machine learning technology to review contracts, amendments, company charters, board and shareholder materials, corporate filings, investor materials, and related documents to prepare detailed analyses for a variety of client needs. Examples of this work include due diligence matrices tracking red flag provisions; corporate audits identifying potential issues for acquisitions, sales, or flips; financing packages; and drafting documents. He also assists privacy and data security teams to manage privacy law programs, including drafting privacy policies and data subject request protocols, coordinating personal data inventory reviews, and reviewing data privacy agreements.

Prior to joining Orrick, Benjamin worked as a Corporate and Discovery Attorney for WilmerHale.

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Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

Michael E. Schrader Partner

Portland

Mike also represents banks and underwriters in connection with the purchase and sale of bonds and other financing and credit-related matters.

A significant portion of Mike’s practice is devoted to private activity bond financings. This includes representing Oregon Housing and Community Services and Oregon Facilities Authority in connection with their conduit revenue bond programs. Over the course of his more than 20 years as a bond attorney in Oregon, he has competed dozens of project financings throughout the State with a variety of public and private sponsors, developers and funders.

Mike received the Firm's Community Responsibility Award in 2011 in recognition of his community service and pro bono work. He currently serves on the Boards of Bridge Meadows, a developer, owner and operator of affordable intergenerational housing communities, and the Portland Housing Center, an organization providing educational and financial services to promote homeownership in underserved communities. He also serves as special counsel (pro bono) to Mercy Corps in connection with its Community Investment Trust (CIT) Program.

Before joining Orrick, Mike was a partner at Ater Wynne LLP in Portland. Prior to that, Mike was an associate at Ice Miller in Indianapolis, Indiana.