In public finance matters, Cathleen has served as bond counsel and special tax counsel for a variety of transactions, including health care facilities, multifamily housing, airport, ports, transit authorities, non-profit organizations, public utilities, hospitality projects, as well as tobacco revenue securitizations. In addition to tax-exempt financings, Cathleen also represents clients in IRS audits and non-profit corporation tax matters.
Nathan is the point person for the unit on transforming and re-engineering Orrick’s approach to corporate transactional work for its clients. This includes the redesign of workflows and processes in a way that, among things, leverages technology and data analytics and develops a robust knowledge management function.
Before his current position, he served as Orrick’s Chief Practice Officer for its Corporate Business Unit. In that capacity, he worked closely with business unit and practice group leaders to lead strategic and financial planning efforts, improve global operations and business management, and coordinate business development and lawyer recruiting.
Prior to Orrick, he served in a variety of capacities at Baker McKenzie, including Director of Practice Management, Director of Knowledge Management, Practice Support Lawyer and Associate. Nathan also was an Associate at Brobeck Phleger & Harrison.
Julia is passionate about working with founders who think outside the box to grow their companies and become the next big thing across a wide breath of industries and across the globe. Julia has advised early-stage companies in several dozen equity and convertible financings.
Julia also represents investors and venture capital firms on their investments in early and high-growth technology companies.
Julie has served as bond counsel to various state agencies and local governmental entities, including, special districts, cities, counties and public facility corporations; as underwriter and bank counsel to financial institutions that underwrite and purchase tax-exempt and taxable governmental obligations; and as outside counsel to a public facility corporation that owns and operates a convention center hotel and to professional sports teams that lease bond financed sports venue facilities. Julie also has experience representing domestic banks that provide credit and liquidity facilities for tax-exempt financings. Prior to entering private law practice, Julie served as an assistant attorney general in the Public Finance Division of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas.
Rachael has represented clients in multiple cases before the United States Supreme Court, as well as federal and state appellate courts across the country. She has argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
Prior to joining Orrick, Rachael clerked for the Honorable Denny Chin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She graduated with Honors from The University of Texas School of Law, where she was champion in moot court, Chief Articles Editor for The Review of Litigation, a research assistant, a teaching assistant, and a member of the Supreme Court Clinic. She received her Bachelor’s degree from The University of Arkansas, where she developed her nationally recognized research on political rhetoric.
Brooks has represented innovative, multinational companies—both offensively and defensively—in intellectual property disputes. He has handled an array of technologies in the electrical, medical device, communications, and software spaces. Prior to joining Orrick, Brooks was an associate in the Intellectual Property practice group of a large international law firm.
Brooks graduated from Boston College Law School, where he was a finalist in the Wendell F. Grimes Moot Court Competition, served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and served as an executive editor of the UCC Reporter-Digest.
Brooks holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, where he was a member of the IEEE Honor Society (Eta Kappa Nu).
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