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Practice:

  • Financial Services Litigation
  • Energy

Michael Morehead Senior Associate

Houston; Austin

Michael regularly engages in his clients' most complex and sophisticated matters involving eight, nine and ten figure exposure. Whether it be securing billion-dollar summary judgments or obtaining full dismissals for energy companies in mass tort cases, Michael defines success as winning, and doing so in a manner that enhances and protects the reputation and prospects of his clients.

Michael understands how courts think and what they want. He managed a federal court civil docket for two years and drafted judicial opinions for the highest levels of the Texas judicial system. He regularly assists his clients navigate their most complicated legal obstacles, and does so with bottom-line clarity.

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Practice:

  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Oil & Gas
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy Innovation
  • Solar Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Responsible Business

Bart Kempf Partner

Washington, D.C.

Bart’s experience includes advising project developers, financial institutions, private equity firms, state and local governments, and public and private companies on matters involving environmental and natural resources laws, including:

  • Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund);
  • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA);
  • Endangered Species Act and other wildlife laws;
  • National Historic Preservation Act and tribal issues;
  • Clean Water Act;
  • Clean Air Act;
  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA);
  • Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; and
  • Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Bart’s work includes transactions, project development and permitting, litigation, agency proceedings, and enforcement actions. He represents clients in matters involving federal and state agencies, including the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and state and local environmental and resource protection agencies.

Bart has also handled numerous matters involving federal, state, and local economic incentives, grants, and loan guarantees. In particular, he has advised energy and commercial development clients on applying for and obtaining incentives for the redevelopment of brownfield sites.

Bart maintains an active pro bono practice that has included matters involving conservation, human trafficking, and family law. Prior to joining Orrick, Bart practiced at an international firm and a national firm focused on environmental law.  He also served as senior counsel on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, focusing on environmental, energy, and climate issues.

Bart is described by Chambers USA as “highly fluent in the intricacies of EPA policymaking and possesses a wealth of knowledge about the U.S. market.”

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Practice:

  • Structured Finance
  • Funds
  • Asset‐Backed Securities
  • Fintech

Gaelyn Sharp Of Counsel

Los Angeles; New York

Gaelyn has represented a wide range of financial institutions including fund sponsors, issuers, underwriters, placement agents, investment advisers and investors in connection with a wide range of financing transactions including collateralized loan, bond and debt obligations; synthetic collateralized debt obligations; trade receivables; various derivative instruments and structured finance products; and private equity funds and hedge funds.

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Practice:

  • Banking & Finance

Carrie Han Managing Associate

Los Angeles

Carrie is a managing associate in Orrick’s Los Angeles office and a member of the Banking and Finance group. She advises private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, asset managers and other private and public companies on an array of financing transactions including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, private credit financings and liability management exercises and other special situations.

Katie Tarvardian Associate

Washington, D.C.

Katie focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments, and general corporate matters for clients primarily in the oil and gas, renewables, and conventional power industries.

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Practice:

  • Employment Advice & Counseling
  • Employment Law & Litigation

Katie Cleworth Managing Associate

London

Katie provides U.K. and international clients with commercially focused, practical advice on a broad range of transactional and advisory employment matters, including the employment aspects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, workforce restructuring, employee relations and consultation, recruitment and severance, workforce classification and restrictive covenants.

Practice:

  • Technology & Innovation Sector

Sundeep Kapur Partner

Washington, D.C.

Sundeep is also a leading advisor in the rapidly evolving advertising ecosystem and possesses an in-depth technical and legal understanding of adtech across all channels (e.g., connected TV, linear TV, over-the-top media, desktop, mobile web, mobile app). He participates in adtech working groups and is a key contributor to the development of industry-wide privacy compliance solutions. He advises on compliance with self-regulatory regimes developed by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). The IAB named him Outstanding Contributor to Legal Affairs in 2024 for his significant impact on the adtech ecosystem through his work on such industry-wide initiatives.

Sundeep is accredited by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US). He is also a member of Law360's 2025 Cybersecurity & Privacy Editorial Advisory Board.