People

Allison Lofgren Bradham Associate

Washington, D.C.

Allison advises clients on U.S. export controls and economic sanctions. She also has experience advising clients on trade compliance due diligence in corporate transactions. Allison counsels clients on foreign investment reviews, including matters involving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Paul Loisel Partner

Paris

Paul's practice focuses on project finance and strategic acquisition transactions in energy and infrastructure.

He advises sponsors and financiers on large greenfield and brownfield project financings, both cross-border and domestic, primarily in France, in EMEA and Africa.

He brings exceptional knowledge in structuring and financing of public-private, transport, telecom, energy transition, social infrastructure and real estate projects.

Paul also regularly advises clients in the fast-growing EnergyTech and InfraTech sectors.

He has extensive experience on all types of financings (senior, junior, mezzanine, loans, bonds) and related derivative instruments.

More generally, Paul advises on financing aspects of strategic assets in connection with project finance, M&A/private equity or restructuring transactions.

Emanuela Longo Special Counsel

Milan

Emanuela Longo has a consolidated experience in corporate and commercial law, M&A and private equity transactions, commercial contracts. In these areas of activity, Emanuela Longo represented companies of primary importance, merchant banks, private equity and venture capital funds, as well as family offices both in domestic and cross-border transactions, regularly assisting clients in the expansion of their business in Italy and abroad, as well as in structuring and in execution of M&A transactions.
In recent years she advised Italian companies and multinational corporations both in the context of the ordinary management of legal matters both within the framework of special projects.
Before joining Orrick, Emanuela Longo has provided consultancy at the Vita Samory, Fabbrini e Associati, an Italian law firm based in Milan.

Kimberly M. Loocke Senior Associate

San Francisco

Kimberly holds a Certified Public Accountant license and worked as a senior tax associate for Deloitte Tax, LLP prior to law school.

Cesar Lopez-Morales Counsel

Washington, D.C.

He is a skilled brief writer who focuses on simplifying complex concepts and crafting a compelling story that frames factual and legal issues in a way that is more likely to produce favorable results for clients. Cesar routinely drafts briefs in federal and state courts of appeals and in the U.S. Supreme Court, and is often embedded at the trial level to brief dispositive motions and to make sure that issues are preserved with an eye towards appeal.

Cesar advises clients on how to analyze executive actions and handles government-facing litigation, including challenges to the legality of federal and state laws and regulations. His work covers a wide range of substantive areas, including constitutional and administrative law, statutory interpretation, complex commercial litigation, federal preemption, and the False Claims Act. And although Cesar handles high-stakes cases across an array of subjects, his work tends to focus on the firm’s technology and life sciences sectors.

Before joining Orrick, Cesar was an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, where he represented the United States and its agencies in dozens of cases involving challenges to the legality of federal laws, actions, and programs. He argued and won dispositive motions in federal district courts nationwide. His experience included litigating cutting-edge matters involving the Appointments Clause; the Spending Clause; the Territory Clause; the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments; the separation of powers; the Administrative Procedure Act; the Federal Vacancies Reform Act; the Freedom of Information Act; and the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act.

He also maintains an active pro bono practice, representing immigrants and veterans in their appeals to the federal courts of appeals and filing amicus briefs in precedent-setting cases of public interest. He is especially passionate about advancing the rights of the residents in the U.S. territories.  

Cesar served as a law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor in the October 2023 Term.  Before that, he clerked for Judge José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then-Presiding Judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and Judge Jay A. Garcia-Gregory of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.

April Lord Senior Associate

London

April’s experience includes advising on acquisitions and disposals of solar farms and wind projects as well as on joint venture arrangements and other commercial contracts across a range of renewable and conventional energy companies.