Henry Wu Managing Associate

Düsseldorf

Henry represents clients on business transactions involving IP and data protection aspects, including licensing and technology transfers, mergers and acquisitions, venture and other strategic transactions that involve the commercialization of IP.

He also advises his clients on strategic IP protection and enforcement, in particular in the field of patent, trademark and copyright law.

Prior to joining Orrick, Henry was an attorney with a law firm focusing on trademark, competition and media law.

Meaghan Mixon Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

Meaghan is experienced in a range of state and federal litigation matters including civil and criminal conspiracy, fraud, employment, construction, pharmaceutical intellectual property rights, COVID-related insurance recovery, and class action data breach litigation. Now Meaghan focuses her practice on products liability and class action litigation.

Prior to joining Orrick, Meaghan focused her practice on political law matters with an emphasis on fighting voter suppression laws and legislation which disenfranchise minorities, young, low-income, disabled, and elderly voters. Meaghan served on trial teams that successfully struck voter suppression laws in New York, Texas, Georgia, and Arkansas.

In 2020, Meaghan was named to the Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll with high honors after providing more than 100 hours of pro bono service before the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Meaghan continues in her commitment to pro bono service by providing legal services to domestic violence survivors with the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project.

Meaghan earned her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, while serving in chambers with the Hon. Yvonne M. Williams of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Meaghan is located in Orrick’s Washington, D.C. office, and admitted to practice in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.

Adam Kowis Partner

Houston

Adam has significant experience in transactions across the energy and infrastructure sectors, including in oil and gas, hydrogen and ammonia, carbon capture and storage, energy infrastructure, and core and core-plus infrastructure. He has advised clients across the full spectrum of energy and infrastructure assets, including upstream oil and gas assets, gathering and processing facilities, pipelines, carbon storage facilities, gas storage facilities, refined products terminals, toll roads, district energy systems, and water and waste facilities.

He regularly represents domestic and international energy companies, energy and infrastructure private equity funds, midstream companies, and industrial and environmental services companies, among others.

Kristin Seeger Partner

San Francisco

Her experience spans projects across the United States and Canada and includes award-winning transactions. She is recognized nationally as Chambers USA Band 2 for Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional (2024) and as a Leading Lawyer: Energy-Renewable/Alternative Power by Legal 500.  Clients describe her as "very knowledgeable" with a "great sense of being practical and understanding what the drivers are on either side of the table." Kristin is a key member of Orrick's energy transition practice, which was recognized as Band 1 in Energy Transition by Chambers USA (2024).

Jedd Bellman Partner

Washington, D.C.

Jedd's solutions-based methodology allows clients to gather the appropriate intelligence and legal analysis they need so that they can make informed, risk-based decisions as they navigate the ever-changing state licensing and regulatory ecosystem. His collaborative and strategic approach is designed to maximize outcomes whether evaluating the merits of a transaction or responding to a multi-state enforcement action. 

Jedd was the Assistant Commissioner for Non-Depository Supervision in the Office of the Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation, where he coordinated the licensing and supervision of approximately 23,000 individuals and business entities covering the mortgage, student loan, consumer finance, sales finance, debt services, credit reporting and money services industries. He also managed the office’s regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, including playing a leadership role in every significant multistate enforcement matter handled by state regulators during his tenure. Additionally, Jedd oversaw numerous successful legislative and regulatory initiatives.

Prior to that, Jedd served as Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. House of Representatives, where he developed policy and legislative agendas in the areas of housing and financial services, small business and minority business.

Jedd also served as Assistant Attorney General for Maryland, where he handled mortgage fraud and payday lending enforcement prosecutions, as well as mortgage compliance, payday lending and money services business investigations.

Following law school, he served as law clerk to Judge John K. Olson of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida.

Daniel Healow Senior Associate

Silicon Valley

Daniel has experience working with clients of all sizes with varying industry and regulatory footprints, from startups to mature technology companies to large financial institutions, in various transactional settings, such as mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, service provider arrangements, development arrangements, strategic partnerships and commercial contracts. In addition to standalone transactions, Daniel provides ongoing client support concerning post-transaction business integration, IP portfolio management, artificial intelligence tooling usage, open source software usage, compliance with privacy laws, internal and external-facing policy management and data management strategy.

Prior to joining Orrick, Daniel was an Associate in the IP and Technology Transactions Group at Skadden. Prior to law school, he was part of the Legal Online Operations team at Google where he managed and developed policies to address government requests for user data.

Ollie McNicholas Associate

Washington, D.C.

Ollie maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on civil rights litigation.

Before joining as a full time associate, Ollie was an Orrick summer associate in both his 1L and 2L years.

David Gindler Partner

Los Angeles

David has achieved extraordinary trial outcomes for both plaintiffs and defendants, including a $302 million verdict for breach of a research and license agreement covering foundational biotechnology, as well as defeating a $217 million damages claim in a patent dispute where liability had already been established in an earlier trial handled by a different law firm. David also negotiates complex intellectual property license agreements involving cutting-edge technologies and creative financial structures, frequently working on behalf of leading academic institutions.

Róisín Culligan Managing Associate

London

Róisín works with fast-growing startups and established technology companies to navigate complex legal frameworks.

She has a particular focus on AI governance, complex outsourcings, technology contracts and digital platform compliance with the EU’s new technology regulations.

Prior to joining Orrick, Róisín held roles at a top-tier Irish law firm where she developed a deep understanding of the intersection between law, technology and business strategy.

Dr. Christian Schröder Partner

Düsseldorf

Christian helps clients consider the privacy and artificial intelligence implications of new technology, supports their compliance programs, and helps them stay ahead of enforcement trends. One particular focus of his work deals with internal data transfer agreements, external data transfers with external providers, and product launches that comply with international data protection standards, as well as privacy requirements for connected cars. Furthermore, Christian provides guidance on privacy and data protection considerations for developing, acquiring, using, licensing and selling technology, data and intellectual property, including M&A transactions and IP focused joint ventures. He supports companies on the set-up of webshops, outsourcings, license agreements, in cases of trademark or unfair and deceptive trade practice issues, as well as on hard and software license and information technology (IT) project agreements.

Christian maintains strong working relationships with German data protection authorities and EU regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over privacy and data security matters. He effectively defends companies in cybersecurity and privacy-related investigations initiated by EU regulatory authorities. He also engages with authorities on behalf of clients and helps clients avoid proceedings and possible litigation. When litigation can't be avoided, Christian vigorously defends his clients.

For companies facing global cybersecurity incidents, Christian helps with crisis mitigation, including counseling on notification requirements, coordinating media strategies, and representing clients before data protection authorities in related regulatory investigations.

Christian regularly contributes practical thought leadership to global privacy industry publications and German privacy books and journals. Christian authors the Chapter V (international data transfers) of Germany’s leading GDPR commentary Kühling/Buchner (4th ed.) and is co-author to the Corporate Privacy Handbook (Betrieblicher Datenschutz). As an active member of the Sedona Conference, Christian drives the development and understanding of cross border privacy. He also participates in, hosts and moderates speaking programs with fellow private practitioners, EU data protection authorities, and academics focused on privacy and data security. Legal 500 Germany named Christian one of the top 15 practitioners in 2023 and noted that he is "a pioneer in the legal field, a data protection guru." They also recognized Christian and Orrick as "truly global" and how that it is "vital as they require the various leaders of each region to participate and bring issues to the table as a forum".

Prior to working in private practice, Christian interned with the German Federal Data Protection Commissioner and www.epic.org.

Ravinder Sandhu Partner

London

Ravinder represents a wide range of clients in connection with large scale renewable (including onshore/offshore wind, solar and biomass) M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and regulatory matters, as well as in respect of infrastructure and conventional energy assets. She is widely recognised as a leader in wind energy.

Ravinder is a member of Orrick’s Finance and Audit Committee, providing oversight of its financial reporting and audit process, its internal controls, and global compliance with laws and regulation.

Daniel Patrick Kearney Senior Associate

New York

Daniel focuses on technology transactions, including drafting and negotiating a variety of commercial and intellectual property focused agreements, and represents technology companies in a variety of areas, including stand-alone licensing, software as a service, and software development arrangements, and corporate matters, mergers & acquisitions, and financings.

Before joining Orrick, Daniel was an attorney in the IP & Tech Transactions group at Davis Polk & Wardwell, working on a variety of intellectual property, data privacy and security, and transactional matters.

Before becoming a lawyer, Daniel spent several years prosecuting patent applications as a registered patent agent.