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Practice:
- Technology & Innovation Sector
- Technology Transactions
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
Haley Flora Managing Associate
Silicon Valley
Haley Flora's practice is focused on her client's transactional technology and intellectual property needs. Haley represents clients at all stages of their life cycles and in a variety of technology and science-driven industries, including cleantech, SaaS, gaming, energy, hardware, entertainment, Internet, media, semiconductor and media. Haley has experience drafting and negotiating commercial, licensing and other intellectual property and technology agreements. She also assists clients with intellectual property issues in connection with a range of large commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments.
Haley grew up in Portland, Oregon and is passionate about zero emissions technologies. Prior to joining Orrick, Haley was an associate in the IP and Technology Transactions Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Practice:
- Private Equity
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Julie Fock Lapp Managing Associate
Paris
She focuses on corporate law, including M&A, joint ventures, and private equity transactions.
Julie advises French and International companies on all aspects of corporate law, as well as investment funds, management teams or founders.
Prior to joining Orrick, Julie was an associate at an international law firm and at a Magic Circle firm in Paris.
Practice:
- Intellectual Property
- Patents
- IP Litigation for the Life Sciences & HealthTech Sector
Ernie Fok Managing Associate
Santa Monica
Ernie provides expertise and enthusiasm to help our clients resolve their intellectual property disputes. With a background in molecular biology, cognitive science, and intellectual property, Ernie is adept at helping resolve complex patent disputes across a wide range of technologies from wireless communications to life sciences matters. He also brings valuable litigation and legal writing expertise, having served as a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to the Honorable Judge Tiffany P. Cunningham. Ernie also has experience working hands-on with technical experts and in arbitration disputes over patented inventions.
Prior to joining Orrick, Ernie worked at a large law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area representing a client in a CRISPR gene editing patent dispute before the district court and Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as well as indigent clients seeking asylum in the United States.
Ernie graduated cum laude from Santa Clara University School of Law, earning the law school's Mabie Outstanding Graduate Award and a High Tech Law Certificate with a specialization in Intellectual Property Law. He also holds an M. Ed. from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and B.A.s from the University of California, Berkeley in Molecular & Cell Biology and Cognitive Science.
Practice:
- Finance Sector
- White Collar, Investigations, Securities Litigation & Compliance
- Financial Services Litigation
- Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Trials
William J. Foley Partner
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.
Julia Foley Managing Associate
Austin
Julia is passionate about working with founders who think outside the box to grow their companies and become the next big thing across a wide breath of industries and across the globe. Julia has advised early-stage companies in several dozen equity and convertible financings.
Julia also represents investors and venture capital firms on their investments in early and high-growth technology companies.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Real Estate
- Energy
- Renewable Energy
- Solar Energy
- Wind Energy
- Real Estate
- Public Finance Renewable Energy
- Banking & Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- United Kingdom
- Hydrogen
- Offshore Wind
Simon Folley Partner
London
He regularly counsels clients on a broad range of real estate matters, including the acquisition and disposal of investment property across asset classes; advice to corporate occupiers on lettings and office moves; real estate development; and the property aspects of corporate and financing transactions.
Simon also has extensive experience in the energy sector, where he has advised on the acquisition, sale, development and financing of a variety of projects. He has particular knowledge in renewable energy, with significant experience in offshore and onshore wind, solar and biomass. He is a member of the Orrick team that is adept in the disposal of offshore transmission assets as part of the OFTO tender process run by Ofgem.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Energy
- Infrastructure
Sara Forden Managing Associate
New York
Her practice focuses on project development, acquisitions, and financing, including debt and tax equity financing, in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors.
Dougal Forrest Managing Associate, Banking & Finance, Private Credit
Washington, D.C.
Practice:
- Banking & Finance
- Private Credit
- Finance
Dougal Forrest Managing Associate
Washington, D.C.
Dougal has experience representing both lender- and borrower-side clients in connection with secured and unsecured credit facilities. He has worked on a variety of domestic and cross-border commercial finance matters, including acquisition financings, direct and syndicated lending transactions and debt refinancings.
Before joining Orrick, Dougal was a debt finance associate in the New York office of White & Case LLP.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy
- International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
- Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Oil & Gas
Harriet Foster Senior Associate
London
Harriet represents domestic and international clients from across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia across a variety of different forums, including the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, ICSID and under the UNCITRAL Rules. As well as arbitration, Harriet also has experience in cross-border litigation, involving courts in England & Wales, Tanzania and the British Virgin Islands and has represented clients in a range of public international law matters, including before the International Court of Justice and on maritime boundary issues. Harriet is admitted as a solicitor-advocate and currently on the Young ITA leadership team.
Practice:
- Technology & Innovation Sector
- Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
Michaela Frai Managing Associate
New York
Michaela helps clients build global privacy programs and advises on United States (U.S.) state and federal consumer privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), and the Colorado Privacy Act. Her work also includes counseling on compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Practice:
- Financial & Fintech Advisory
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
- Fintech
Lauren Frank Counsel
Santa Monica
Prior to joining Orrick, Lauren was an associate at Buckley LLP. Previously, she was a law clerk at a Beverly Hills boutique firm.
Mark Franke Of Counsel, Restructuring
New York; Boston
Mark Franke Of Counsel
New York; Boston
Recognized as a rising star by Super Lawyers and the Legal 500, the market has increasingly turned to Mark for advice on matters across a variety of industries, including aviation, shipping, oil & gas, chemicals, renewable energy, digital assets, agriculture & farming, construction & engineering, telecommunications, sports, commercial real estate, entertainment and leisure, and digital and traditional media.
Mark is highly practical, placing emphasis on commercial solutions to disputes while also at home in contentious litigation and contested motion practice. He thrives in contexts that require engineering creative approaches to problems involving multiple players with competing interests. In all things, he prioritizes relational and intellectual integrity with his colleagues and adversaries.