Manon Speich Senior Associate, Technology Companies Group
Paris; Paris Tech Studio
Paris; Paris Tech Studio
Paris; Paris Tech Studio
Manon advises startups and high growth technology companies in raising capital and building their businesses from formation through exit. She assists founders developing and implementing effective corporate governance strategies throughout the life of their startup and issuing customized equity instruments for their fundraising.
Before joining Orrick, Manon worked as an M&A and Private Equity attorney at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in Paris.
Paris; Paris Tech Studio
Paris; Paris Tech Studio
Manon advises startups and high growth technology companies in raising capital and building their businesses from formation through exit. She assists founders developing and implementing effective corporate governance strategies throughout the life of their startup and issuing customized equity instruments for their fundraising.
Before joining Orrick, Manon worked as an M&A and Private Equity attorney at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in Paris.
Paris
Emmanuel represents numerous French and international companies on all aspects of employment law including international and cross-border issues.
His practice focuses on reorganizations, collective redundancies. He notably advised key players of the Financial, Metal, Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical, Technology, Leisure and Music Industries in implementing economic dismissals and voluntary departures. He also assists these clients with employee representation and collective bargaining and sensitive individual cases.
Emmanuel has a strong proficiency in collective litigation as well as criminal litigation and currently handles a number of sensitive cases arising from works council and health and safety committee information consultation procedure, professional elections, collective bargaining agreements and employees performance appraisal system.
With a long-standing experience on landmark M&A, he regularly supports HR Directors in dealing with works council information and consultation procedures and transfer of employees triggered by such complex projects, helping them achieving their strategic objectives.
Co-author of an insightful and pedagogic book on all labor and employment facets of companies’ reorganization, Emmanuel is described by his clients as “a guru in the field of employment law” and praised for his “business sense”.
Before joining Orrick in 2016, Emmanuel was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris, where he was in charge of the Employment, Pension and Benefits Department. Prior to that he was partner at the boutique employment law firm Bélier et Associés where he started his career.
London
Philip frequently acts on M&A, private equity and equity capital markets transactions in a range of sectors, including in the energy and infrastructure, technology and financial services sectors, and has experience in working with a range of clients, including institutional investors, funds, private equity and large private and listed companies.
Paris
Emmanuel represents numerous French and international companies on all aspects of employment law including international and cross-border issues.
His practice focuses on reorganizations, collective redundancies. He notably advised key players of the Financial, Metal, Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical, Technology, Leisure and Music Industries in implementing economic dismissals and voluntary departures. He also assists these clients with employee representation and collective bargaining and sensitive individual cases.
Emmanuel has a strong proficiency in collective litigation as well as criminal litigation and currently handles a number of sensitive cases arising from works council and health and safety committee information consultation procedure, professional elections, collective bargaining agreements and employees performance appraisal system.
With a long-standing experience on landmark M&A, he regularly supports HR Directors in dealing with works council information and consultation procedures and transfer of employees triggered by such complex projects, helping them achieving their strategic objectives.
Co-author of an insightful and pedagogic book on all labor and employment facets of companies’ reorganization, Emmanuel is described by his clients as “a guru in the field of employment law” and praised for his “business sense”.
Before joining Orrick in 2016, Emmanuel was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris, where he was in charge of the Employment, Pension and Benefits Department. Prior to that he was partner at the boutique employment law firm Bélier et Associés where he started his career.
London
Philip frequently acts on M&A, private equity and equity capital markets transactions in a range of sectors, including in the energy and infrastructure, technology and financial services sectors, and has experience in working with a range of clients, including institutional investors, funds, private equity and large private and listed companies.
Paris
Lek Regjepaj is involved in public contracts, in particular concession contracts and public-private partnerships for major projects (airport, port, motorway, building, telecommunications). He assists consortiums in the award of these contracts, from the bidding phase to the post-award phase.
He advised the winning consortium for the concession to operate Beauvais-Tillé airport (near Paris), as well as a bidding consortium for a public-private partnership project to finance, design, build, maintain and operate the new headquarters of the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille.
In the field of renewable energy, Lek Regjepaj works alongside the French government (Ministry of Energy, Directorate General for Energy and Climate) on tenders for the construction of offshore wind farms (both installed and floating).
He also advises operators, sponsors and lenders on project development and M&A transactions involving wind and solar assets, as well as in innovative sectors such as biomass, geothermal energy and green fuels.
Lek Regjepaj has also contributed to the revision of contractual terms for public subsidies for deep geothermal energy, on behalf of public and semi-public bodies.
His practice covers all regulatory aspects of activities, whether regulated or not. He has advised telecommunications operators, both wholesale and retail, as well as industrial groups, on the rules applicable to them.
Lek Regjepaj also handles litigation in these sectors.
Prior to joining Orrick, Lek developed expertise in major international maritime, port and rail infrastructure projects, through his experience with an international logistics company operating 22 concessions worldwide.
Paris
Lek Regjepaj is involved in public contracts, in particular concession contracts and public-private partnerships for major projects (airport, port, motorway, building, telecommunications). He assists consortiums in the award of these contracts, from the bidding phase to the post-award phase.
He advised the winning consortium for the concession to operate Beauvais-Tillé airport (near Paris), as well as a bidding consortium for a public-private partnership project to finance, design, build, maintain and operate the new headquarters of the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille.
In the field of renewable energy, Lek Regjepaj works alongside the French government (Ministry of Energy, Directorate General for Energy and Climate) on tenders for the construction of offshore wind farms (both installed and floating).
He also advises operators, sponsors and lenders on project development and M&A transactions involving wind and solar assets, as well as in innovative sectors such as biomass, geothermal energy and green fuels.
Lek Regjepaj has also contributed to the revision of contractual terms for public subsidies for deep geothermal energy, on behalf of public and semi-public bodies.
His practice covers all regulatory aspects of activities, whether regulated or not. He has advised telecommunications operators, both wholesale and retail, as well as industrial groups, on the rules applicable to them.
Lek Regjepaj also handles litigation in these sectors.
Prior to joining Orrick, Lek developed expertise in major international maritime, port and rail infrastructure projects, through his experience with an international logistics company operating 22 concessions worldwide.
New York
His practice focuses on the representation of financial institutions, investment advisors and other public and privately-held companies in corporate and securities litigation, and other complex business litigation matters. In particular, he has wide-ranging experience representing clients in stock-drop class actions, shareholder derivative actions, M&A and hostile takeover disputes, and complex contractual and business tort cases before federal and state courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery.
New York
His practice focuses on the representation of financial institutions, investment advisors and other public and privately-held companies in corporate and securities litigation, and other complex business litigation matters. In particular, he has wide-ranging experience representing clients in stock-drop class actions, shareholder derivative actions, M&A and hostile takeover disputes, and complex contractual and business tort cases before federal and state courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Randy has assisted opportunity funds, operators/developers, pension funds, pension fund advisors, investment banks, financial institutions, non-bank financial institutions and private equity funds in the acquisition and disposition of real property, sale of distressed loan portfolios, and mezzanine and permanent financings.
He is recognized as a key lawyer in Real Estate in the Chambers Southern California Real Estate 2024 directory, described by clients as “an excellent attorney... very commercial and a deal maker” who “understands our needs and is able to execute on them."
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Randy has assisted opportunity funds, operators/developers, pension funds, pension fund advisors, investment banks, financial institutions, non-bank financial institutions and private equity funds in the acquisition and disposition of real property, sale of distressed loan portfolios, and mezzanine and permanent financings.
He is recognized as a key lawyer in Real Estate in the Chambers Southern California Real Estate 2024 directory, described by clients as “an excellent attorney... very commercial and a deal maker” who “understands our needs and is able to execute on them."