She has particular experience in representing Asian clients from the automotive sector in DIS arbitration proceedings. Clients benefit from her background as corporate / M&A lawyer and her experience with shareholder disputes, management liability cases, post-M&A disputes and other contentious commercial matters. As a trained business mediator, Martina also advises clients on the extrajudicial settlement of conflicts and the avoidance of disputes at an early stage when negotiating and drafting contracts.
Prior to joining Orrick, Martina worked at the Munich office of a leading U.S. law firm and the Munich / New York City offices of a renowned German law firm.
Martina currently writes her doctoral thesis on a subject relating to management liability.
Grégoire advises French and international companies on litigation matters.
Prior to joining Orrick,Grégoire was an associate at Fieldfisher in Paris. Grégoire also worked as an intern in various law firms as Kalliopé and White & Case in Paris as well as in the Paris Court of Appeal and at the legal department of CACEIS Bank in Luxembourg.
Nick is an experienced bankruptcy litigator, representing financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and trustees in all stages of the bankruptcy process. Most recently, Nick served as co-lead trial counsel to the private credit arm of a global financial company and secured a $100 million trial victory in connection with multiple defaulted loans.
Nicholas also has extensive experience in issues arising out of the financial crisis, including a range of issues relating to residential mortgage backed securities (“RMBS”) and lending practices. He has represented issuers and sponsors of RMBS in fraud and breach of contract cases, as well as federal and state securities actions. Nicholas has defended a global financial institution in connection with two separate trials in the New York Supreme Court.
Nicholas is a key member of the Orrick team that represents Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, multinational investment banks and financial services companies, in connection with more than a dozen cases. This includes defending the clients against claims brought by investors, trustees, and monoline insurance companies in connection with the purchase and sale of RMBS. Nicholas also completed a secondment at Credit Suisse, where he was in the litigation and investigations group. During this time, he worked on regulatory matters involving FINRA, the SEC, the DOJ, the CFTC, and the NY Department of Financial Services. Additionally, he handled internal investigations addressing issues such as insider trading.
Nicholas has also represented one of the nation’s largest mortgage loan servicers, including in a class action lawsuit involving allegations of improper loan servicing practices.
Darren is a dual-qualified American lawyer and solicitor-advocate of England and Wales. He has an established record of working closely with clients across the finance, commodities, energy, life sciences and technology industries on all stages of disputes.
He represents clients in international arbitral proceedings under the major arbitral institutions' rules, as well as in American federal and state courts. He also holds Higher Rights of Audience with the Senior Courts of England & Wales. Darren maintains an active pro bono practice with a focus on criminal, habeas, and constitutional cases on appeal.
Darren also has direct in-house experience, having undertaken secondment to the fast-paced litigation department of one of the world's largest investment banks. He worked closely with the in-house team to assess litigation risk, advise stakeholders, and manage ongoing global litigations. He now frequently works with clients to develop their dispute resolution terms, processes, and trainings for other in-house functions.
Prior to joining Orrick, Darren earned his Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School where he led the Columbia Business Law Review as its Editor-in-Chief and extensively studied federal constitutional, administrative, and criminal law. While there, he was a judicial intern in multiple levels of the U.S. federal judiciary, including the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Southern District of New York, and the District of New Jersey.
Her litigation practice focuses on complex securities matters, financial regulatory enforcement actions, and internal investigations. Recently, she has represented:
Louis Dreyfus Company in an ongoing commodities class action litigation;
A publicly traded pharmaceutical company in ongoing government investigations; and
A Fortune 50 company in ongoing shareholder demand disputes.
Sloan was also recently published in The American Criminal Law Review for her note, “The Need for a Clear Statement After 'Bridgegate': Combatting SCOTUS’s Narrowing View of Corruption with an 'Abuse of Functions' Offense."
He currently is national coordinating counsel for a major
oil company in connection with its climate change litigation. He previously
served as co-lead counsel to a major international pharmaceutical manufacturer
in the defense of nationwide litigation challenging industry pricing practices.
Rob’s experience includes extensive work in antitrust and
False Claims Act cases, claims alleging fraud, and agency enforcement actions. His
pharmaceutical industry activities include service as outside counsel to and Corporate
Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Security Institute, Inc., the industry’s
not-for-profit trade organization dedicated to the fight against pharmaceutical
counterfeiting.
He is Managing Editor of The
World in U.S. Courts, Orrick’s quarterly review of court decisions
addressing personal jurisdiction over non-U.S. parties and the extraterritorial
application of U.S. law to global business and cross-border activities.
Rob also served two terms on the District of Columbia Bar’s Pro
Bono standing committee. Before
joining Orrick, he was a partner in Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP and Clifford
& Warnke, in Washington, D.C.
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