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Practice:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Technology Companies Group

Ken Wiggins Partner

Miami

Ken is recognized as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 and named “Lawyer of the Year” in Miami for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law by Best Lawyers.

Practice:

  • Trademark, Copyright & Media
  • Intellectual Property
  • U.S. International Trade Commission
  • Trials

Mark S. Puzella Partner

Boston

As a trial lawyer, Mark excels at handling accelerated, complex cases. For example, as lead counsel for New Balance, Mark won a swift six-month International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation concerning claims of trade dress infringement. And, as lead plaintiff counsel for Explorica in a trademark case, he won a jury verdict just ten weeks after filing the complaint. During that short span, the parties engaged in complete discovery, including taking and defending numerous fact and expert depositions. Clients routinely ask him to take over matters at the close of discovery, prior to trial, or on remand, which presents unique challenges and time constraints.

He is also skilled at explaining complex concepts and technology to judges and juries in a persuasive, intelligible style. For example, in the high-profile Supreme Court case ABC v. Aereo, he led the trial and appellate team’s presentation of the key technology. That presentation was the basis of the trial court’s denial of a preliminary injunction, and the Second Circuit’s affirmance of that decision.

Mark draws upon his litigation experience to help clients anticipate and avoid legal issues related to new technologies and brands. Mark has advised numerous technology and media companies on the creation, use, and delivery of content and helped clients assess whether their products will withstand investor and competitor scrutiny. He also has significant experience advising on branding and re-branding projects, including private brand or store brand clearance and risk assessments.

Mark’s exceptional record has earned him praise as a problem solver from client and peer surveys. Most recently, Chambers USA described him as "extremely skilled and effective." World Trademark Review 1000 has called him “intelligent, thoughtful and client-oriented” and “incredibly impressive.” The Legal 500 has described him as a “smart, creative” trial lawyer who “anticipates everything.” And in 2016, IP Law360 named two of his cases among the top ten trademark decisions of the year.

465124

Practice:

  • Infrastructure
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Public Finance
  • Private Credit

Craig Byrne Partner

Milan

He has acted as counsel to lenders, sponsors, investors, investment banks and issuers in connection with a variety of transaction types, such as private placement transactions, project finance transactions (including project bonds), convertible and exchangeable bonds, structured equity transactions and capital securities for banks and insurance companies.

Examples of recent experience in these areas include advising on the landmark Italian Brebemi (A35) toll road financing, the Italian A3 toll road project bonds and the Italian A21 toll road financing. He also advised on the financing and refinancing of Azzurra Aeroporti (the Côte d’Azur airports) as well as various financings for Mundys and Autostrada per l’Italia, and the crossover bond issuance by Italian telecommunications company TIM S.p.A.

Craig has also acted for a number of global plastics groups on a range of transactions from secured private credit transactions through structured equity investments and joint ventures, with a recent focus on mechanical and advanced recycling of plastics.

Craig has also led numerous high-profile transactions in the Italian and European markets. He has recently advised on multiple senior and subordinated bond issuances by a major Italian banking group, including Additional Tier 1 and senior preferred notes. He also advised on a €1.5 billion dual-tranche bond issuance by a global industrial manufacturer.

Craig also acts on liability management exercises for corporates and banks, including systemic transactions such as the debt for equity swap carried out by National Bank of Greece in November/December 2015, the liability management exercise carried out by Monte dei Paschi di Siena in November/December 2016 and the deleveraging of Banca Monte dei Paschi by way of a partial non-proportional demerger (which included a non-performing asset portfolio) in favour of Amco S.p.A. (owned by the Italian government) in 2020.

Qualified in England and Wales, Craig is recognized for his commercial insight and pragmatic approach to structuring complex transactions. He is fluent in English and Italian and is highly regarded for his ability to navigate the intricacies of Italian and international regulatory frameworks.  

Ranked in Band 1 in the Chambers Global 2025 and Chambers Europe 2025 guides for Capital Markets: Debt, Craig is also recognized in the Hall of Fame for Capital Markets: Debt by Legal 500 Europe.

Practice:

  • Energy
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Renewable Energy
  • Wind Energy
  • Infrastructure
  • Hydrogen
  • Solar Energy
  • UK
  • Power

Craig Bruce Senior Associate

London

Craig has a wide range of experience advising developers, funders and contractors on the construction and operation aspects of domestic and international energy projects including wind (offshore and onshore), solar, battery storage, energy from waste, anaerobic digestion and nuclear.

Practice:

  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate

Emily Bills Managing Associate

San Francisco

Emily has a broad range of experience in real estate financing transactions. With a wide-ranging knowledge of commercial real estate matters and their complexities, Emily advises clients on financings, joint ventures, acquisitions, developments and dispositions. She also has experience drafting and advising on lease agreements.

Practice:

  • Compensation & Benefits

Karen S. Cannon Managing Associate

Silicon Valley

Her practice focuses on the compensation and benefit issues of technology companies.

She advises on the design, administration and implementation of executive and equity compensation arrangements, including equity plans, retention plans, change of control and severance arrangements and executive employment and separation agreements.

She represents clients during the life cycle of corporate transactions: financings, mergers and acquisitions, secondary offerings, SPAC transactions and the preparation for public listing.

She has particular interest in implementing equity and executive compensation arrangements for global subsidiaries and service providers.

431646

Practice:

  • Financial & Fintech Advisory
  • Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
  • Fintech

Manley Williams Partner

Washington, D.C.

Manley has extensive experience working with clients to develop credit programs, simplify credit agreements, adapt procedures for online and mobile environments, and implement, improve and amend customer rewards programs. She also helps companies sell their products over time, whether traditional banks with credit cards, online lenders with installment loans, startups with charge cards or merchants with installment plans. She helps companies navigate the federal and state law governing credit, licensing, prohibitions on unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) and limitations on lending to the military and compliance with antidiscrimination laws.

She helps institutions evaluate fair lending issues in judgmental underwriting, advises financial institutions where to locate their card issuing banks to benefit from state laws on the exportation of interest rates and assists merchants and emerging companies with implementing their credit programs. Manley assists lenders in revising and refining key operational processes, disclosures and customer agreements necessitated by changing legal standards. She also conducts training for in-house counsel on legal developments in the credit card industry, including compliance with emerging UDAAP standards.

Prior to joining Orrick, Manley was a partner at Buckley LLP. She was also counsel with Wilmer Cutler Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP, and a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Board’s (FRB) Legal Division and Division of Consumer and Community Affairs, where she advised financial institutions on compliance with regulations including Regulations Z (Truth in Lending Act (TILA)), B (Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)), E (Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA)), and CC (Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks).

Manley organizes and hosts card roundtables at which industry leaders discuss emerging issues in a congenial environment. She has a particular interest in financial literacy and is a frequent presenter at public schools in the greater Washington, D.C., area, instructing students and teachers in understanding and using credit and debit cards, mobile phone plans and other common consumer credit vehicles.