Mr Michael Orlando > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > San Diego (Downtown), United States > Lawyer Profile
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Offices
501 WEST BROADWAY
NINETEENTH FLOOR
SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Mr Michael Orlando
Work Department
Corporate; Intellectual Property
Position
Michael Orlando is a corporate and intellectual property transactions attorney in Sheppard Mullin’s San Diego (Del Mar) office. He is Team Leader of the firm’s Technology Transactions Team.
Michael founded a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business prior to attending law school and brings a practical, business-oriented approach to his engagements that focuses on problem solving. Clients trust and enjoy working with him because he looks to understand the business objective behind his clients’ decisions, focuses on what’s important and works tirelessly to achieve those objectives. He is responsive to his clients’ needs and keeps involved throughout each transaction.
Michael advises clients on intellectual property development and licensing, outsourcing, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing and commercial transactions, including international transactions. He is particularly experienced in cross-border transactions in Europe and spent several months on secondment in Germany. He is consistently a ranked attorney in Legal 500 in the Media, Technology and Telecoms category.
Michael’s cross-disciplines in both intellectual property and corporate law allow him to leverage both practice areas when structuring transactions for his clients, including the use of joint ventures and strategic alliances in the financing, development and licensing of technology.
Michael’s legal practice spans across multiple industries, including software, hardware, medical devices, biotechnology/pharmaceuticals, healthcare IT, financial services, consumer products, sports equipment, apparel, telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, food and beverage, energy and real estate.
Michael has extensive experience assisting companies with their intellectual property and commercial transactions, including:
- patent licenses, development and collaboration agreements, clinical trial agreements, and supply, manufacturing, distribution and other outsourcing agreements for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies;
- software and hardware technology licenses, development agreements, SaaS agreements, maintenance and support agreements, service level agreements, cloud computing arrangements, strategic alliances, joint development agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, OEM, VAR, reseller and distribution agreements;
- outsourcing agreements, including information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO), technology development, manufacturing and supply agreements; joint ventures; and offshoring arrangements;
- online advertising agreements, privacy policies, terms of service, website and mobile application development agreements, hosting agreements and e-commerce fulfillment agreements; and
- trademark licenses, merchandising agreements, distribution agreements, endorsement/sponsorship agreements, marketing agreements and sweepstakes/content agreements.
Languages
French
Memberships
San Diego County Bar Association
State Bar of California
Hawaii State Bar Association
American Bar Association (Business Section, Cyberspace Law and IP Committees)
National Eagle Scout Association
Software San Diego
International Technology Law Association
Education
M.B.A., University of San Diego, 2003
J.D., University of San Diego, 2002
B.A., University of California, San Diego, 1998
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has an experienced cross-disciplinary technology transactions team which combines a mixtire of corporate, IP, and entertainment and media lawyers. The firm has been particularly busy advising media and entertainment companies on NFT launches, while on the M&A side, it assisted Sony Interactive Entertainment on its acquisition of the Seattle-based videogame developer Valkyrie Entertainment. The ‘responsive and knowledgeable‘ Brian Anderson and Daniel Schnapp in New York jointly lead the team with Michael Orlando in San Diego and Marisa Brutoco in Orange County. ‘Excellent’ associate, Brittany Walter (San Diego), is also singled out for her ‘good eye towards substantive legal issues‘.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Tax > International tax
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)