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317000

Practice:

  • Supreme Court and Appellate

Daniel A. Rubens Partner

New York

Danny's practice focuses on appellate litigation. He has led the drafting on dozens of appellate briefs, and regularly argues appeals in state and federal courts. Danny has extensive trial litigation experience as well, with an emphasis on dispositive motions, preserving appellate issues, and developing creative legal strategies.

Danny’s work has covered a wide range of subject areas, including securities, bankruptcy, intellectual property, arbitration, class actions, and criminal law. He has a deep understanding of appeals and critical motions in financial services litigation, and in recent years has played a key role in representing financial institutions in major RMBS cases brought by trustees, investors, and monoline insurers. His financial services clients include Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Mr. Cooper, and Ocwen. He also represents leading technology companies in precedent-setting cases involving antitrust law and ballot initiatives, as well as other complex commercial litigation.  In addition, Danny is an experienced bankruptcy litigator, having represented various debtors and creditors in fraudulent transfer cases and other contested insolvency-related matters involving U.S. and foreign law.

Danny is a member of the Second Circuit's pro bono panel and maintains an active pro bono practice focusing on criminal, immigration, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ rights matters in the Supreme Court and other appellate courts. He was recently recognized by the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association as a “Best LGBTQ+ Lawyer Under 40,” by the New York Law Journal as a Rising Star, and by LawDragon in its inaugural 500 X – The Next Generation listing.  As part of his commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Danny serves as a mentor for The Appellate Project, an organization focused on empowering law students of color to thrive in the appellate field. He has also served as an Orrick ambassador for the Move The Needle Fund, a collaborative effort designed by Diversity Lab to create a more diverse and inclusive legal profession.

Before joining Orrick, Danny served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Following his clerkships, he was selected to represent the American Inns of Court as a Temple Bar Scholar in London.

Practice:

  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Securities Litigation
  • Mass Torts & Product Liability

Aaron M. Rubin Partner

Orange County

An accomplished litigator, Aaron advises leading investment banks, financial institutions, mortgage servicers, non-bank lenders, and alternative asset managers on the unique issues impacting the finance sector, from major commercial disputes to securities litigation and enforcement actions. Leveraging his dispute resolution expereince, Aaron serves as a trusted partner to clients, advising on best practices for mitigating risk long before there is the threat of litigation.

In 2018, Aaron moved to the firm’s Orange County office from New York. The move served his New York-based traditional financial institution clients needing counsel on the West Coast, while also expanding his practice.

740

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Public Finance

Leslie Conard Krusen Partner

Seattle

Les is a Partner in the Public Finance practice group in Orrick’s Seattle office. He has served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel on public and privately placed tax-exempt and taxable debt issued by airports and ports, mass transit agencies, electric and water utilities, industrial development agencies and bond banks, higher education institutions and health care facilities. He has experience in advising clients in such financings in several states and U.S. territories, including Alaska, California, Guam, Nevada, New York, Oregon and Washington.

During the course of his practice, Les has worked on various types of financing structures, including standard general obligation and revenue bond financings, bond and grant anticipation financings, master trust indenture financings, conduit financings, pooled financings, variable rate bonds and current and advance refundings.

Prior to joining Orrick, Les was an associate in the Capital Markets practice group at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York, where he represented major foreign and domestic banks and boutique financial institutions as issuers, depositors, loan sellers, underwriters, initial purchasers and placement agents in connection with approximately $20 billion of public and private offerings of commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized loan obligations.

740

Practice:

  • Antitrust & Competition
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Emily Luken Senior Associate

Washington, D.C.

Emily routinely handles all aspects of civil and class action litigation, from early motions practice to trial before a jury or arbitration panel. Her extensive litigation practice concentrates on antitrust and competition law, and she has represented plaintiffs, defendants, and third parties in high-stakes matters.

In addition to her litigation practice, Emily also advises clients on a spectrum of critical antitrust and competition matters, spanning government investigations, merger clearance, and strategic counseling. She adeptly navigates clients through the intricacies of regulatory inquiries and enforcement actions, specifically from the FTC and DOJ. She represents clients across a diverse range of industries, including technology, healthcare and life sciences, automotive, oil & gas, and professional membership organizations.

Notably, Emily has developed a focus on issues at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property, with a particular emphasis on standards-essential patents (SEPs) subject to a commitment to license on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms (FRAND). In addition to representing clients in licensing negotiations, litigation matters, and government outreach with respect to SEPs and FRAND, she has authored extensive thought leadership on this topic.

Prior to law school, Emily worked as a research assistant and project coordinator at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

287778

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Banking & Finance
  • Private Credit
  • Fintech

B. J. Rosen Partner

New York

B. J. is also the Senior Outside Legal Advisor to The Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to exonerating wrongly-convicted prisoners through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

Practice:

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Technology Companies Group
  • Fintech

Jason Grube Managing Associate

Seattle

Jason is a member of Orrick's technology companies practice group. He works with both early-stage and late-stage companies and assists with all aspects of formation and venture capital financing. He provides advice to companies seeking exit transactions such as mergers & acquisitions, initial public offerings, or SPAC transactions. Jason also advises investors planning to invest in tech companies in various industries and markets.

Prior to joining Orrick, Jason served in the U.S. Army as an Infantry officer and as a Military Intelligence officer.