- Chairman: Mitch Zuklie
- Number of lawyers worldwide: : 1,100
- Number of lawyers USA: 760
- Website: www.orrick.com
- OFFICES : Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C., Wheeling (West Virginia)
- INTERNATIONAL OFFICES: Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo
Firm Overview:
Orrick is a global law firm with a particular focus on serving companies in the technology, energy and financial sectors.Recognized by Law360 as one of the “Global 20” leading firms, Orrick offers clients a distinctive combination of local insight and consistent global quality across 25 offices. Orrick’s lawyers are known for their extraordinary record of wins in high-stakes disputes and for delivering commercially oriented advice on sophisticated transactions. Twice selected by Financial Times as one of the most innovative US law firms,Orrick is recognized for innovation in both client advice and client service. Collaboration-one of the firm’s core values-defines the firm’s relationships with its clients, among its lawyers and staff, and with its communities.
Main Areas of Practice:
Corporate:
• Represented Yammer in its US$1.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft, Instagram in its US$1 billion acquisition by Facebook and Par Pharmaceutical in its US$1.9 billion acquisition by TPG—three of the largest private company acquisitions of 2012
• Represents more than 1,200 emerging companies from Silicon Valley to New York to London to Munich to Beijing at all stages of growth in the cloud computing, gaming, social networking, clean tech, internet and life sciences sectors
• Represented Shutterstock in its NYSE IPO
• Advised Exxaro Resources on the US$3.4 billion combination of its South African and Australian mineral sands operations with the US, Dutch and Australian businesses of Tronox
Contact: King Milling
Email: kmilling@orrick.com
Energy & Infrastructure:
• Advising on all of the major transport PPP projects under way in the United States, including the US$1.5 billion financing of the Midtown Tunnel in Virginia; the US$1.1 billion Presidio Parkway project in San Francisco; and the US$935 million I-95 express lanes project in Virginia
• Represented Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa in a US$888 million wind project
• Advised Recurrent Energy in its sale of four photovoltaic facilities to Google and KKR
• Advised Tennessee Valley Authority on its innovative US$1 billion lease-purchase financing of the John Sevier power plant
Contact: Dan Mathews
Email: dmathews@orrick.com
Contact: Michael Meyers
Email: mmeyers@orrick.com
Finance:
• Ranked No.1 US municipal bond counsel for more than a decade and serves as underwriters’ counsel to the most active investment banks in the market; helped the State of California and its agencies to raise more than US$18 billion in 2012, and helped the Port Authority to raise US$3 billion for the redevelopment of New York’s World Trade Center site
• Advised the cities of Vallejo and Stockton, California, on their Chapter 9 filings
• Represented Wells Fargo Bank in connection with restructuring the debt of the two largest casino properties in North America: the Foxwoods Resort Casino and the Mohegan Sun
• Represented Barclays Bank Delaware in the establishment of the first new major US credit card master trust in nearly a decade; represented Redwood Trust in all of its pioneering public offerings of private-label MBS since the financial crisis began
• Advised many of the nation’s most active real estate investors, including Westbrook Partners, Walton Street Capital, RREEF, Hackman Capital and Colony Capital, in transactions totaling more than US$6 billion in 2012
Contact: David Syed
Email: dsyed@orrick.com
Contact: Howard Altarescu
Email: haltarescu@orrick.com
Intellectual Property:
• Defended Apple in the smartphone battle with S3 Graphics before the ITC—a result that Corporate Counsel selected as the No.1 IP win of the year
• Worked with international law enforcement to help Microsoft dismantle four of the world’s largest botnets, introducing new tactics for combating cybercrime
• On behalf of NVIDIA, achieved a successful settlement (including a licensing agreement) with Rambus involving a complex series of patent and antitrust disputes
• Prevailed before the ITC on behalf of Nintendo, defeating a patent infringement claim relating to the Wii system—Financial Times cited this as one of the most innovative client results of 2012
• Secured a victory for Dow AgroSciences in litigation brought by Bayer with respect to genetically modified plant patents
• Representing DISH Network in a copyright infringement battle brought by Fox and other networks relating to DISH’s AutoHop DVR feature
Contact: Neel Chatterjee
Email: nchatterjee@orrick.com
Contact: Steve Routh
Email: srouth@orrick.com
Litigation:
• In 2012, American Lawyer named Orrick among the nation’s top litigation departments for the second consecutive time and named Josh Rosenkranz, head of Orrick’s Supreme Court & Appellate Practice, Litigator of the Year
• Defending Barclays, Credit Suisse, Ally Financial and Nomura in RMBS and related litigation arising from the financial crisis
• Representing Sony in connection with insurance coverage claims arising out of cyber attacks on Sony online entertainment networks
• Resolved trade secrets disputes on behalf of senior executives and their employers, including enabling former HP Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd to join Oracle
• Successfully defended 150+ employment class actions on behalf of clients such as Apple, Electronic Arts, McAfee, Sears, Williams-Sonoma and others
• Obtained a complete acquittal for Gregory Godsey in what is described as the largest foreign bribery prosecution in history—the Africa Sting
Contact: Steve Foresta
Email: sforesta@orrick.com