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Practice:
- Intellectual Property
- Trade Secrets Litigation
Sarah Mullins Senior Associate
San Francisco
Sarah is an associate in the firm's Intellectual Property group. Before law school, Sarah worked for four years in the in-house legal departments of major technology companies. She draws on her in-house experience to understand her clients' businesses and needs and to come up with creative solutions to their legal challenges.
Immediately prior to joining Orrick, Sarah clerked for Justice Daniel E. Winfree of the Alaska Supreme Court.
During law school, Sarah gained civil litigation experience as a clinical intern in the East Bay Community Law Center's Consumer Justice Clinic and served as a student director of Berkeley Law's Appellate Advocacy course.
Practice:
- Tax
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
Chelsea Munoz Patchen Senior Associate
Houston
Chelsea advises clients on a wide variety of corporate transactions and debt and equity financings with an emphasis on advising developers and financing parties in structuring transactions to take advantage of tax credits and other available tax benefits. She advises clients in the wind, solar, carbon capture, and carbon sequestration industries.
Prior to joining Orrick, Chelsea practiced as a Tax associate in the Houston office of another international law firm.
During law school, Chelsea worked as a research assistant to professors Jonathan Masur and Daniel Abebe and served as an articles editor for the Chicago Journal of International Law, in which she also published her own comment on the regulation of space debris. Prior to practicing law, she pursued a graduate degree in geography with a focus on people's relationship to urban nature and political ecology and taught lab courses in physical geography.
Katherine Munyan Senior Associate
New York
Katherine represents clients in a wide range of complex litigation matters in both federal and state appellate courts. Her work spans a wide range of substantive areas, from contract interpretation and administrative law to novel questions of constitutional law and statutory interpretation. She maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on issues of criminal justice and human rights.
Katherine rejoined Orrick after serving as a law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Before joining Orrick, she clerked for Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also worked at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP on a range of commercial litigation and white collar matters.
Katherine graduated from Yale Law School, where she served was a member of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the International Refugee Assistance Project. She has written, advised United Nations officials and diplomats, and appeared in a documentary addressing the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar. At Orrick, her pro bono practice has focused on the rights of defendants in the criminal justice system in the United States.
Practice:
- Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Financial Services Litigation
- Class Action Defense
- Securities Litigation
Harry Murphy Partner
New York
Practice:
- Private Equity
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Capital Markets
- Technology & Innovation
- United Kingdom
- Strategic Counseling
- Equity Capital Markets
- Life Sciences & HealthTech
- Oil & Gas
- Internet of Things
- Energy
Katrina Murphy Senior Associate
London
Katrina advises on a wide range of domestic and international corporate matters including M&A, private equity, growth capital, and buy-and-build strategies.
She has advised on the acquisition of a number of technology-focused businesses, as well as transactions in the energy and life sciences sectors. Katrina recently advised Vitruvian Partners on its investment in Twinkl as well as Azzurri Group on its investment in Boojum.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Tax
Mary Kate Murray Associate
Chicago
Mary Kate's practice focuses on the tax aspects of development and financing for renewable energy projects, including federal tax incentives, tax credit transfers, and tax equity structuring.
Practice:
- Financial & Fintech Advisory
- Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement (SAGE)
- Fintech
Alexis Murray Managing Associate
Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining Orrick, Alexis was an associate at Buckley LLP.
Practice:
- Technology & Innovation Sector
- Capital Markets
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Technology Companies Group
Mark Mushkin Partner
New York
Mark counsels clients on access to the U.S. public markets, including advising on registered and 144A/Reg S debt and equity offerings, IPOs, private placement transactions and general securities law matters. He also provides counsel to underwriters and issuers on various offerings.
He also represents clients on public and private acquisitions, mergers and divestitures, private equity transactions, strategic investments, joint venture disputes, long-term commercial arrangements and general corporate matters, as well as advising financial institutions in negotiating credit facilities with investment grade and non-investment grade borrowers.
Thomas Myers Senior Counsel
New York
Tom's practice also focuses on financings for industrial development bonds, local development corporations, housing bonds, resource recovery and water/sewer authority revenue bonds. He has extensive experience as underwriter’s and placement agent’s counsel on a wide variety of public finance matters. In addition, Tom was special counsel in connection with tax lien and tobacco settlement securitizations by various New York counties.