Santa Monica
Marlowe has experience working with private and public sector clients on all aspects of major infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on P3s and transportation.
Marlowe has worked on some of the largest and most complex P3 and infrastructure projects in Australia and the United States to date, as well as many first to market transactions.
In addition to her extensive infrastructure and projects knowledge, Marlowe also draws upon her experience working in two commercial and legal roles for major Australian public sector entities in providing her advice.
Marlowe is actively involved in the infrastructure community, including through her role as Chair of the IPFA North American Future Leader’s Committee. The IPFA is the go to association for infrastructure and energy professionals worldwide.
New York
Allison Citron is a Senior Litigation Finance & Distressed Claims Trading Attorney in Orrick’s Restructuring group.
Allison Citron is a Senior Litigation Finance & Distressed Claims Trading Attorney in Orrick’s Restructuring group. She advises international and domestic investment bank and hedge fund clients, broker-dealers, large financial institution creditors and secured lenders with respect to the buying and selling of domestic and international trade claims, bank debt, syndicated loans, post-restructuring equity, securities, notes and many other distressed assets. She serves both buy-side and sell-side clients as counsel in complex distressed investing transactions including in the arena of litigation financing. Additionally, she focuses on the primary and secondary documentation and negotiation arena under the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) and the Loan Market Association (LMA) as well as multiple global jurisdictions. She also works under the International Swap Dealers Association (ISDA) regime and is an active participant in the loan trading market.
Allison has extensive experience in drafting, negotiating and reviewing transfer and commercial loan documentation relating to both par and distressed debt obligations, as well in cross border transactions, debtor-in-possession financings, restructurings and acquisition financings. Allison has advised multiple clients in connection with transactions relating to both distressed and par borrowers in a variety of industries including TXU, Lyondell, Lehman Brothers, MF Global, Peabody and Caesars Entertainment, among many others. She also frequently advises on claims transactions in connection with Madoff, both on a direct level as well as the multiple feeder funds.
Allison is an active participant in The Loan Syndications and Trading Association and frequently weighs in on several existing and current issues. She has presented on several panels in connection with the new distressed debt regimes and global transferability issues as well as recently moderated a panel on the litigation finance market. She is also an inaugural member of the LSTA’s new Women’s Association.
San Francisco
San Francisco
Stephen Spitz, a partner in the San Francisco office, is a member of the firm’s Public Finance Department. He serves as leader of the Department’s Water and Wastewater Financing Team.
Steve serves as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and underwriters’ counsel in a variety of municipal enterprise revenue bond issuances, including financing for water, wastewater, solid waste and airport facilities. His practice is, in addition, focused on single family and multifamily affordable housing financings. Steve also has extensive experience in higher education financings, interest rate swaps and swap based products in the municipal market. He often assumes a leading role in bond and disclosure work for new and complex clients.
San Francisco
Thomas Mitchell, a partner in the San Francisco office, is a member of the Restructuring Group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, insolvency, creditors’ rights and commercial law.
He has represented secured and unsecured creditors, indenture trustees and others in bankruptcies and workouts in a variety of industries, including technology, rail transportation, air transportation, securities trading, commodities trading, supermarket, automobile sales, construction (including solar energy), retailing, convenience store, health care, telecommunications, film and television production, restaurant, home construction, real estate development, and equipment manufacturing.
He also has extensive experience in the structuring of asset securitization transactions to resolve bankruptcy and commercial law issues, representing issuers, underwriters, and credit enhancers with respect to many asset types, including mortgage loans (residential and commercial, U.S. and foreign), credit cards (secured and unsecured), trade receivables (U.S. and foreign), consumer and marketplace loans, property assessed clean energy (PACE), delinquent property tax receivables, tobacco settlement payments, attorneys’ fee payments in connection with the tobacco settlement, whole business securitization, home equity loans, auto loans, time share loans, excess servicing fees, manufactured home loans, aircraft leases, home relocation receivables, defaulted receivables, electric utility stranded costs, franchise loans, dealer floorplan loans, equipment leases, mutual fund fees, limited partnership interests, bank funds flows, annuity fees, health care receivables, insured student loans, repackaged securities, viatical loans, and insurance premium receivables. In addition, he has been responsible for commercial law and bankruptcy structuring of collateralized debt obligations, municipal derivatives, lease to service contracts, Indian tribe financings, and a wide variety of public finance transactions and project finance transactions. He also represents borrowers and lenders in secured transactions.
IFLR1000, US and California Restructuring and Insolvency, Notable Practitioner, 2021
Mentioned in the Structured Finance: Securitization category of The Legal 500 US 2021
Paris
Originally trained in the US, Sara focuses on both commercial and investment treaty arbitration across a range of sectors, in particular in the fields of energy, (both traditional and renewable, including solar power), construction, technology, and corporate disputes involving Joint Ventures and Licensing.
Sara has worked with clients from the United States, Europe, and Asia on disputes governed by French, Swiss, Iranian, and US (Maryland, New York, Washington, Illinois) law and in most of the major arbitral forums, including the ICC, SCAI, and ICSID.
Prior to joining Orrick in 2020, Sara worked in the emerging companies department of another major international law firm in New York City, and prosecuted child abuse and neglect cases on behalf of the City of New York in family court.
London
Alexander advises on a broad range of corporate practice areas, with a primary focus on venture capital, growth equity and private equity transactions in the technology sector.
Alexander has received recognition from numerous clients: one Founder / CEO in the BioTech sector commended his “persistence, professionalism, excellent attention to detail and very high level of responsiveness to questions.” Another Founder / CEO in the Artificial Intelligence sector shared, “Alec was impeccable throughout, always providing rock solid advice and working round the clock to hit aggressive deadlines.”
Prior to joining Orrick, Alexander trained and qualified with a boutique corporate and technology law firm. He also has notable experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
London
Rebecca has experience working on a range of renewable energy transactions (solar PV, wind (onshore and offshore), biomass and energy from waste) as well as digital infrastructure projects. Rebecca has a particular interest in emerging technologies, including hydrogen and energy tech.
Silicon Valley
Eric Citizen is an associate in Orrick's Silicon Valley Office and a member of the firm's Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group.
Eric joined Orrick upon graduating from Southern University Law Center (SULC). While in law school, Eric worked as a legal intern at Google Cloud and Chronicle LLC, where he supported the legal team on a variety of corporate matters including privacy, cyber security, and transactions.
As a member of the Technology and Entrepreneurship Clinic at SULC, Eric assisted with providing free legal services in connection with trademark and patent law issues, as well as services in connection with entity formation for entrepreneurs, non profits, and inventor clients with limited financial resources.
While at SULC, Eric served as Managing Editor of the Southern University Law Review. Eric received his B.A. from Northwestern State University, where he graduated cum laude.
Düsseldorf
Dr. Nikita Tkatchenko is a partner at our Düsseldorf office and a member of the M&A and Private Equity practice group.
His practice focuses on advice in connection with cross-border M&A transactions, restructuring, liability issues and all corporate law matters. Furthermore, he has experience in antitrust and merger control law.
Nikita has profound experience in advising a variety of industry sectors, with a focus on energy & infrastructure and technology companies.
Prior to joining Orrick in 2011, Nikita worked at the German law firm Hengeler Mueller.
Paris
Maïten Le Brishoual is a Tax lawyer in Orrick's Paris office.
Maïten advises clients on French and international development, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and real estate investments. She also advises companies and high net worth individuals on the management and transfer of their assets, management incentives, tax audits and litigations.
She also has a strong experience on M&A Insurance/Contingent Tax Risk.
Prior to joining Orrick, Maïten worked in a leading French law firm.
Washington, D.C.
Upnit represents clients in federal and state courts across the country at both the trial and appellate level, often embedding in trials as appellate counsel.
Upnit has served as litigation, trial, and appellate counsel for pharmaceutical, chemical, technology, cosmetics, and manufacturing companies. As a member of trial teams, she works on complex commercial matters to develop creative legal strategies for trial and subsequent appeals. As embedded counsel, Upnit takes the lead in drafting dispositive motions and pre- and post-trial filings and ensures that appellate issues are preserved. She has presented oral argument in state and federal courts and has co-authored countless briefs before state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. In addition, Upnit maintains an active pro bono practice.
Prior to joining Orrick, Upnit focused on products liability and complex litigation work at Arnold & Porter LLP and a mid-size firm in Upstate New York. This included representing a consumer products company in the defense of thousands of personal injury cases in state and federal courts. She was the primary drafter of several motions and appellate briefs. She was also deeply involved in the firms’ pro bono practices and first chaired a trial dealing with First and Eighth Amendment claims.
Outside of the firm, Upnit serves on the Board of Directors of the DC Women’s Bar Association and serves as its Advocacy Committee Co-Chair. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of her law school’s Alumni Association.
Upnit previously clerked for the Honorable Theodore A. McKee of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and interned for the Honorable Thérèse Wiley Dancks of the Northern District of New York. In law school, Upnit served as the Managing Editor of the Syracuse Law Review, and was an arguing member of the American Bar Association’s National Appellate Team. She received the Moot Court Honor Society’s Executive Director Award and the Syracuse Law Review Distinguished Leadership Award.
New York
David Litterine-Kaufman is an experienced trial lawyer with a record of achieving successful litigation outcomes for financial institutions and other large companies in federal, state, and bankruptcy courts across the country and throughout the litigation process.
David is a partner in Orrick's Complex Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group based in New York. His practice focuses on representing lenders, underwriters, and large public and private companies in financial disputes throughout the litigation process, from pre-litigation dispute resolution to success at trial.
David has litigated high-stakes bench and jury trials and pretrial proceedings involving nine-figure secured claims in bankruptcy, multi-billion dollar securities offerings, complex long-term supply contracts, and valuable trademarks.
David also has years of experience litigating distressed asset and syndicated loan trades, contract disputes, and residential mortgage-backed securities issuances for both plaintiffs and defendants. David's background in computer science and mathematics allows him to quickly master complex financial transactions and craft effective litigation strategies for his clients.
Before joining Orrick, David was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.