Laura Lariu

She is primarily focused on venture capital financings, corporate governance, equity incentive plans, formations, secondary transactions, listings and outside general counsel guidance.

Before joining Orrick, she led companies through transformational growth as general counsel. She was an early employee of Relativity Space, an orbital launch company that automates rocket manufacturing and is now run by Google's former CEO, and helped scale the company from to 1,000+ employees, raise $1.3 billion in funding and secure millions of square feet of physical infrastructure (including a former Boeing C-17 factory) and prepare for its first rocket launch. She has negotiated launch contracts with major satellite companies in amounts exceeding $1 billion of contract value. Prior to Relativity Space, she was a general counsel in the transportation and logistics space.  Laura started out her career as a corporate attorney with Gunderson Dettmer in New York.

Laura is a founding member of TechGC (now L Suite), a community platform for general counsels of leading venture capital funds and high-growth tech companies and served on its Steering Committee and Executive Board. She is on the Steering Committee of Space Beach Law Lab, the leading platform for legal leaders and regulators to shape the future of the space industry.

Laura speaks five languages and loves traveling and spending time with her husband, kids and friends.