Changes to Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP‘s team have seen it focus on the technology sector after the departures of Oliver Duys, Wilhelm Nolting-Hauff , and Nikita Tkatchenko to Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP in February 2025. Christoph Brenner takes sole leadership of the practice group and is an experienced private equity lawyer with international and domestic sponsors among his clients. Sven Greulich is a contact to note for tech sector matters, while Damien Simonot is a corporate lawyer with experience assisting with PE deals. December 2025 saw the team bolstered by the arrival of Norton Rose Fulbright’s Michael Prüßner, augmenting the team’s cross-border transactional capabilities.
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Christoph Brenner
Other key lawyers
Sven Greulich; Damien Simonot; Michael Prüßner