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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.

Hichem Hadj Abdelkader Associate

Paris

Hichem advises French and international groups and private equity funds on transactional tax matters.

He assists companies with their development in France and abroad, with mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and refinancing, and with tax audits and litigation matters.

Additionally, he assists in the structuring and implementation of employee stock offerings and management packages.

Hichem also advises individuals on the management and transfer of their assets.

Prior to joining Orrick, Hichem was a trainee at leading French law firms and worked in the tax department of a top-tier French bank.

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.

352549

Practice:

  • Employment Law & Litigation

Annie H Chen Senior Associate

Los Angeles

Annie has experience in all facets of litigation, including factual investigations, preparing witnesses for depositions, taking depositions, and pretrial briefing and motion practice.  She also advises clients regarding compliance with employment laws, including revising employee handbook provisions and employee commission agreements, leave of absence issues, requests for accommodations and employee terminations.

443236

Practice:

  • Supreme Court and Appellate

Kamilyn Choi Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Before joining Orrick, Kamilyn was a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb, where she focused on foreign-sovereign litigation and other cross-border matters.

Kamilyn is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she served on the officer board of the Yale Law Journal and as a member of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the federal Indian law clinic.  As a member of the law school's appellate litigation clinic, Kamilyn argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, securing a victory for an incarcerated appellant.

Practice:

  • Finance Sector
  • Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
  • Financial Services Litigation
  • 證券訴訟、集體訴訟與股東代表訴訟
  • White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
  • Internal Investigations
  • Trials
  • Bankruptcy Litigation

Darrell Cafasso Partner

New York

Prior to joining Orrick, Darrell served as the Global Head of Litigation and Regulatory Proceedings at Goldman Sachs, where he served as a key advisor to the firm and oversaw litigation, arbitration, and other disputes, as well as regulatory, criminal, and investigative proceedings, affecting Goldman Sachs, its world-wide affiliates, or their employees. In this role, Darrell managed a large international team of lawyers that determined legal strategy for threatened or actual litigations, regulatory and criminal matters and other contentious proceedings, oversaw internal investigations, and advised legal and business constituencies on legal, reputational and regulatory risks and issues involving all businesses of Goldman Sachs including investment banking, global markets, merchant banking, research, trading, lending, M&A, asset and wealth management, and consumer lending. Darrell was responsible for the firm’s most critical litigation and regulatory matters and successfully resolved a number of important matters on behalf of the firm.

Before joining Goldman Sachs in 2018, Darrell was a litigation partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Over the years, Darrell has litigated a broad range of commercial cases, including in the areas of securities, banking, financial services, antitrust, consumer financial products, products liability, business torts, bankruptcy litigation, ERISA and other complex corporate litigation. For example, Darrell has represented several financial institutions and public companies, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Moody’s, Banco Popular, and Fiat Chrysler, in numerous securities class actions, shareholder litigations and other disputes.

Darrell also has guided corporate and individual clients across the globe through multi-billion-dollar investigations, enforcement proceedings, and significant compliance matters including a wide range of matters before the DOJ, the SEC, the CFTC, FINRA, the Federal Reserve Bank, the New York Department of Financial Services and various state attorneys general, and foreign bank regulators. For example, Darrell advised Goldman Sachs in reaching coordinated resolutions in multiple criminal and regulatory investigations in jurisdictions around the world relating to an alleged multi-billion-dollar money laundering and corruption scheme involving the Malaysian sovereign development company, 1MDB, and senior public officials in Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. Darrell also served as lead counsel to one of the preeminent automobile manufacturers in multiyear criminal and regulatory investigations relating to diesel emissions, sales reporting and bribery issues.

Travis Cherry Senior Associate

New York

Travis advises companies and underwriters on a broad range of capital markets transactions, including offerings of equity and debt securities, de-SPAC transactions, securities law compliance and corporate governance issues.