With a strong presence on both the East and West Coasts, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP’s transactional tax team has notable experience in a broad range of key sectors, including tech, life sciences, financial services, energy, and electronics, among others. Eric Wall in San Francisco, focusing on corporate and partnership taxation, is the global leader of the firm’s tax department. He is particularly active in the tech and life sciences spaces. John Narducci heads the New York tax team and is well known for handling the tax aspects of securities offerings, mergers, restructurings, and energy market transactions, among other matters. Peter Connors, also in New York, specializes in cross-border transactions generally, strong in the renewables sector, with niche expertise in matters concerning tax credits for carbon capture and sequestration. San Francisco’s SeoJung Park advises on private equity, M&A, and venture financings in the tech and life sciences industries, while senior associate Kimberly Loocke, also in San Francisco, focuses on corporate and real estate transactions as well as sales and use taxation.
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‘Orrick brings an incredible depth of expertise and collaboration across a wide range of transactional and finance matters. We have yet to find a specific issue that the Orrick team cannot address or help us solve -- and we have covered many. The team also brings an execution mindset that is unique to our other experiences with legal partners.’
‘We work closely with Justin Cooper and Rich Moore, who personally go above and beyond to partner with our leadership on new ideas, bringing complex, cross-disciplinary concepts from 0 to 1. This unique combination is extremely valuable to us as clients working in a new affordable housing space.'
‘Peter Connors has years of experience and expertise in international tax matters. ’
Key clients
- PaperSpace
- Cisco
- Primergy Solar
- Mosasic ML
- Casetext
- OpsRamp
- COVA Acquisition Corp
- Kineta
- Bridging Pennsylvania Developer 1
- Louisiana Connected
Work highlights
- Advised Squarespace in its acquisition of the assets associated with Google Domains from Google.
- Advised Ipsen SA in its US$952 million acquisition of Albireo Pharma Inc.
- Advised Waimana Hydrogen in the formation and funding of a company dedicated to improving the process by which green hydrogen is created through electrolysis and pyrolysis.
Lawyers
Leading associates
Leading associates with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Practice head
Eric Wall; Peter Connors; John Narducci
Other key lawyers
SeoJung Park; Kimberly Loocke; Richard Moore; Justin Cooper