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Sushila Nayak Partner

London; New York

She has a broad range of experience in debt financing transactions, including structured credit and corporate finance. She represents issuers, arrangers and collateral managers in connection with the issuance and restructuring of various structured finance products, derivatives transactions and debt issuances in Europe and the United States.

Sushila also provides counsel to technology and other companies on trade finance matters, including receivables financing arrangements, vendor financing, and supply chain financing.

Active in pro bono work, she leads the London office’s pro bono efforts.

Engagements:

Sushila's experience includes advising:

• Arrangers on European CLOs
• Issuers, arrangers and investors in connection with the warehousing and securitisation of various assets, including receivables, tax credits and loans
• Issuers, arrangers and investors on compliance with European risk retention requirements
• Borrowers and lenders on corporate bonds and private debt and bank lending transactions
• Corporates and lenders on supply chain, customer finance and receivables financing arrangements

Sushila's recent engagements include:

• Representing Morgan Stanley as arranger of the North Westerly V European CLO transaction
• Representing Enel Finance International N.V. and Enel S.p.A. in connection with the issuance of a $4 billion U.S. dollar sustainability linked bond
• Representing the purchaser in a cross-border private securitisation of diamond receivables
• Representing Millicom International Cellular S.A. on a $1.65 billion bridge loan
• Representing Millicom International Cellular S.A. in connection with its issuance of a $500 million bond issued under Rule 144A/Regulation S, and its $600 million tender and redemption of existing bonds

Matthew Neuringer Partner

New York

Matthew is recognized nationally and globally by Chambers USA, where clients describe him as “smart, organized and responsive and offers really good insight on key issues” and “he is an encyclopedia of PPP and he does an excellent job of leading tricky conversations and getting to a point where all parties agree.”

Prior to practicing law, Matthew worked as a hedge fund analyst and chief of staff in New York State government. Matthew's prior experience in finance and government enhances his ability to deliver legal advice through a commercial lens for private and public sector clients. Matthew has advised clients across a full spectrum of energy and infrastructure assets, including telecoms, rail, highways, airport, intermodal transit, combined heat and power, social infrastructure, and waste to energy. In Matthew's capacity as outside counsel to the Association for the Improvement of American Infrastructure (AIAI) Matthew has also provided input on various key pieces of federal, state and local governments on the sufficiency of their laws to produce P3 projects in their jurisdictions.

Lauren Nilles Associate

New York

Lauren also represents investors and venture capital firms in their investments in technology companies. 

Prior to joining Orrick, Lauren was an associate in the Corporate Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in New York. 

Ejemen Ofoman Managing Associate

New York

Ejemen advises lenders, sponsors, and equity investors on the financing of energy (including renewables) and other infrastructure projects. Leveraging experience gained advising on a diverse range of projects, Ejemen employs a solutions-driven, commercially focused approach in providing legal advice to clients, and in helping them navigate legal challenges associated with their projects.

Prior to joining Orrick, Ejemen spent close to a decade advising on the development and financing of several first-of-its-kind infrastructure projects in Nigeria - including privately financed IPPs, tertiary healthcare facilities, and critical road infrastructure. In many cases, midwifing projects from inception through development, construction, commercial operations, and beyond.

Driven by a strong belief in the transformational impact infrastructure can have on the growth and development of communities, Ejemen is keen to provide pro bono support to financiers and developers of infrastructure projects meant to serve disadvantaged and underserved communities.

In 2024, Ejemen was named a "Rising Star Lawyer" by IFLR1000 Americas.

Bola Oloko Partner

New York

Bola has extensive experience representing leading financial services firms and other institutions, acting as counsel to issuers, underwriters, and other capital markets participants in a wide range of transactions.

Bola’s experience also includes advising clients in a variety of real estate capital markets transactions, secondary loan trading transactions (LSTA and non-LSTA), ISDA derivatives transactions, and securitization litigation and disputes.

Jake Ornstein Partner

New York

Jake provides strategic advice and counsel to startup founders and high-growth technology companies, as well as venture capital and other private equity funds.

He has broad experience in corporate and transactional matters, including venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate formation and governance matters. He works closely with founders and technology company clients from a wide variety of industries to provide outside general counsel services and strategic business insights.

Jake also works extensively with venture capital and other private equity funds in their investment activities in the US and internationally, including early-stage to growth equity financings, mergers and acquisitions and secondary liquidity transactions.

Carly Owens Managing Associate

New York

Carly counsels clients across several sectors, including health technology, financial services, private equity, insurance, and technology on a range of United States (U.S.) federal and state privacy laws, including, but not limited to:

• Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and other biometric privacy laws
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Washington My Health My Data Act and other state health privacy laws
• U.S. state privacy laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Virginia and other states
• Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
• Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM)
• New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation 500

She also prepares clients for regulatory inquiry and government investigation and provides assessments of privacy and security practices for companies carrying out due diligence in the context of corporate transactions. Carly also maintains an active pro bono practice, which has included helping clients in immigration and criminal justice matters.

Carly has obtained the Certified Information Privacy Professional - United States (CIPP/US) designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Damon Pace Senior Counsel

New York

He has practiced in the area of public finance for more than 15 years, serving as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel and borrower counsel in various revenue bond financings, including those related to public power, sewer and storm water, tobacco, higher education, student loans, hospitals and multi-family and single-family housing. He is also bond counsel to various issuers relating to their commercial paper programs. 

Joanna Pak Senior Associate

New York

Joanna advises public and private companies in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Joanna was a corporate associate in the New York office of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Avani Panchal Climate Advisor

New York

As a Climate Advisor at Orrick, Avani is a key member of our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Group. She provides non-legal advice to clients on their climate-related governance, strategy, risk management, and relevant targets and metrics, as well as the identification of relevant ESG issues for a range of companies, the collection and analysis of key climate- and ESG- performance metrics, the preparation of climate- and ESG-related disclosures, and research and writing on emerging climate and ESG trends. She also advises and assists clients in conducting greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) inventories, including identifying emissions boundaries and material categories of Scope 3 GHG emissions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Avani worked as a Corporate Sustainability and Climate Change (CS&CC) Manager at ERM (2021-2023) and as an Air Quality/Sustainability Senior Consultant at Ramboll U.S. Corporation (2012-2021). At both these consulting firms she worked on a variety of air quality and GHG compliance, permitting, and reporting projects, along with ESG due diligence using International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards and Equator Principles. Avani has developed GHG inventories and evaluation of GHG mitigation strategies for a variety of sectors, including city/county municipalities, corporations, airports and seaports, logistical warehouses, and oil and gas facilities.

She has managed and developed Climate Change and Sustainability Reports and Plans, Energy Conservation Plans, and Corporate Social Responsibility Reports, using reporting frameworks such as GHG Protocol, Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), CDP, and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Avani has robust expertise with GHG analysis and reporting, strategy development, policy and regulatory review, and peer benchmarking, for projects located both within the United States and internationally.

Avani has a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (2011) and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, India (2007).

Amy Pasacreta Of Counsel

New York

She advises investment banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds and other financial institutions on legal issues related to the purchase and sale of domestic and international par and distressed assets, including bilateral and syndicated loans, loan participations and derivative structured products. Amy also works with clients to structure deals involving preference, administrative and unsecured trade claims and assists clients in enforcing their rights in the bankruptcy case after the claims are purchased. She represents buy side and sell side clients in connection with private transfers of debt and equity securities, special situations investments, and transactional matters relative to in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Amy also has experience representing lenders on secured and unsecured financing transactions across a wide array of industries, including shipping, airline, energy and infrastructure.

Amy is a consensus builder with industry knowledge and working relationships with all major market players. She has extensive experience in the preparation and negotiation of bespoke documents under the LSTA and LMA regimes, and is routinely involved with cross-border transactions throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States. A seasoned practitioner, she coordinates efforts and resources across the firm to ensure transactions are handled efficiently.

Amy is an active member of the industry’s loan associations and provides training for in house counsel and operations teams at financial institutions.

Paige Pavone Partner

New York

Paige represents large corporations, public entities, and individuals in high-stakes matters in federal and state courts nationwide.   She manages and litigates complex matters, including class actions, multi-district litigations, and cases set for trial.  Much of Paige's work focuses on cases alleging exposures to or economic harm from various chemicals, including pesticides, herbicides, PFAS, and chemicals with industrial applications.  

Paige effectively argues motions, takes depositions, manages discovery, drafts briefs, and negotiates settlements.  Paige has participated in successful jury trials and has delivered constructive presentations to government actors.  She was named a Best Lawyers:  Ones to Watch® in America for 2024 and 2025.

Dedicated to her active pro bono practice, Paige has led a class of detained individuals seeking to remedy constitutional rights violations and has assisted individuals in their efforts to navigate immigration laws.  Paige was honored as an Excellent Pro Bono Attorney for her work on mandamus petitions with the International Refugee Assistance Project.  

From 2017-2018, Paige served as a law clerk for the Honorable Dora L. Irizarry, Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.  Prior to clerking, Paige worked as an associate at a global law firm, engaged in complex commercial litigation, arbitrations, and investigations.