Creators. Visionaries. Underdogs. The Daring.
We help you disrupt. We help you build. We protect you. We help you win. That’s why Financial Times has named Orrick top 3 for innovation eight years in a row.
@home in SoCal
One hundred Orrick lawyers work in
Los Angeles, Orange County and
Santa Monica. As one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work For
(8 years in a row), we offer our clients the very top legal talent.
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
Orange County
Our Santa Monica office, launched in 2017, focuses on tech in a broad way and serves as a base for the firm’s tech companies work in Southern California. In the spirit of California, we’re forward-looking and constantly adapting; it’s the latest example of the continuing expansion of our
market-leading global tech platform.
In LA, we advise clients in tech, media,
E&I, finance, real estate and the public sector in pursuing innovative strategies, resolving complex disputes and regulatory matters, protecting intellectual property and executing novel financings.
Our Orange County team focuses on corporate, M&A and private equity, public finance, intellectual property and commercial litigation for California and global clients.
Orrick: innovative legal partners.
Top 3 for Innovation
Financial Times
2023
(for the eighth year in a row)
100 Best Companies to Work For
Fortune
2016-2023
Top 5 for
6 consecutive years
The American Lawyer
2023
#1 Municipal Bond Counsel Firm
Bond Buyer/Thomson Reuters
20 years
Top 2 Social Impact Leader
for 3 consecutive years
Law360
2023
Top 5 for
6 consecutive years
The American Lawyer
2023
Top 5 Global VC Law Firm
PitchBook
2022
We help you disrupt. We help you build.
We protect you. We help you win.
Click to read how
VENTURE CAPITAL
Silicon Beach
PROJECT FINANCE
NRG Energy
LITIGATION
Sumner Redstone
infrastructure
LAX Airport
IP
Audible Magic
real estate
Hackman Capital
litigation
Xponential
finance
Ocwen Financial Corporation
Public finance
Investing in our Communities
IP
Scat Enterprises
Project Finance
Macquarie Capital
Silicon Beach
Our Santa Monica team brings to Silicon Beach the experience, resources and connections of Orrick’s top 3 global venture capital practice (Pitchbook). Our portfolio of more than 2,700 high-growth companies includes SoCal innovators like Beyond Meat, Cloud9, Clutter, Inspire Energy, FabFitFun, PhaseFour, PlayVs and Romeo Power. We also offer a powerful network of relationships with leading venture capital firms, incubators, investment banks and other advisors. And we help early stage companies get started through our Total Access community.
Sumner Redstone
Our securities litigators successfully represented Sumner Redstone in some of the most highly-publicized corporate governance and securities litigation matters in recent years. Orrick advised Redstone regarding the corporate governance of Viacom Inc. As The Los Angeles Times reported, “The boardroom war for control of Viacom Inc. ended in victory for Sumner Redstone and his family.” Our team also secured dismissals and favorable resolutions of shareholder class action
and derivative action lawsuits filed against Redstone in connection with Viacom and CBS Corporation.
Sumner Redstone Prevails in Battle Over Viacom Leadership
Orrick Team Secures Dismissal of Shareholder Action Against Sumner Redstone
Xponential
Curator of the best brands in the Boutique fitness industry, Xponential needed to recruit new team members to help lead its exponential growth. But UFC Gyms tried to put Xponential up against the ropes when it filed an Anti-SLAPP suit to stop the recruitment of UFC employees. Xponential brought in Orrick for the knock-out punch. Since then, this Orange County-based industry leader has continued to expand its powerful national brand portfolio.
NRG Energy
Our Energy and Infrastructure team represented NRG Energy – one of the largest U.S. energy generators – in the $690 million financing of the 600MW Carlsbad Gas-Fired Energy Center in San Diego. This is one of the very few recent financings of new-build gas-fired generation in California and represents an important step in alleviating grid loss in the region.
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.
The Aliso Canyon gas leak, the largest in U.S. history, inspired our client, Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., to invest in better solutions. The result is a US$200 million portfolio of battery storage projects in Los Angeles. This first-of-its-kind project financing of aggregated demanded response battery storage contracts paves the way for greater investment in battery storage nationwide. The project was named "North American Storage Deal
of the Year" at the 2017 IJ Global Awards.
Hackman Capital
We are working with a Hackman Capital-sponsored real estate fund subsidiary on the development of “The Culver Steps.” The site is between The Culver Studios historic mansion and bungalows (owned by a Hackman sponsored entity, where Amazon Studios and related divisions reside) and the iconic Culver Hotel. The renovated studios will offer 720,000 square feet – allowing Amazon to expand and offering other entertainment companies next-generation creative office and production space. The project was recognized at the 2018 Los Angeles Architectural Awards.
Investing in our Communities
Orrick’s public finance practice – consistently ranked as the number one bond counsel nationwide by Thomson Reuters – is a leader in SoCal, too. We helped state and local entities raise nearly $10 billion last year to finance everything from county, city, college and school facilities to improvements to the Pasadena Rose Bowl Stadium. We also assisted with a public-private partnership lease revenue bond financing the construction of a 21-story office building on behalf of the County of Los Angeles, part of a project to bring jobs, housing and public space to a blighted area of LA.
Ocwen Financial Corporation
Ocwen Financial Corporation knew there had to be an approach to due diligence that produced higher quality and greater efficiency. So, they collaborated with the Orrick structured finance team, Quislex and another international law firm to harness people, process and technology. The resulting project won the ACC Value Champion for Innovative Collaboration Award in 2018. We are proud to help clients like Ocwen come up with better ways to run their businesses.
Calcot
Calcot, a cooperative representing over 1,200 cotton farmers in California and neighboring states and one of the nation’s largest cotton exporters, faced a damaging lawsuit concerning its investment activities. Ready to fight, they brought in our team only three months before trial. We filed briefings and argued motions that convinced the court to rule all claims were improper – a swift and complete victory for our client. To add to the result, we recovered a significant portion of our legal fees and costs as the prevailing party.
Audible Magic
Despite early settlements by nearly all 100 parties sued by Blue Spike LLC, Orrick and Audible Magic didn’t stand down. Audible Magic faced patent infringement claims related to its audio recognition technology, and our team not only fought the allegations and obtained summary judgment of noninfringement on all claims, but we also brought on our own counterclaims. In a true reversal, Blue Spike agreed to settle Audible Magic’s counterclaims instead of facing trial, and agreed not to sue Audible Magic or its customers again.
Scat Enterprises
Scat Enterprises is a Redondo Beach family business – born to supply parts for dune buggies on SoCal’s beaches – that has transformed itself into a seller of high-quality precision auto parts to custom car enthusiasts worldwide. The company turned to our team when it faced serious trademark infringement claims by the Chrysler Group. The suit threatened Scat’s use of its name and the 50-year-old brand associated with the founder’s life's work. Our team helped Scat navigate a challenging litigation and ultimately achieved a successful settlement, preserving the validity of Scat’s trademark registrations.
Tools and Resources
IPO Ready
A tool and resources
for tech companies on
the path to going public
Providing entrepreneurs
with today's tools for tomorrow's success
Startup Forms Center
A tool and resource hub for startups raising capital
Series A Ready
Peer-driven feedback and data analyzing 600+ legal technologies
The Observatory
Making A Social Impact
We’re grateful to our SoCal community partners who
help us strengthen our community. The American Lawyer
has ranked Orrick top 5 for pro bono impact in the
United States for each of the past six years.
The Public Law Center
Other pro bono and community service partners
Other pro bono and community service partners
The Public Law Center
After more than five years of working alongside the Public Law Center, an Orrick pro bono team helped secure immigration relief for a client who has been in the United States for 27 years, after fleeing inhumane persecution in Mexico. For this win and his ongoing dedication, Orrick’s Kristopher Wood received PLC’s 2017 Attorney of the Year Award. Orrick partner Glenn Dassoff serves on PLC’s board.
Our Southern California locations
Santa Monica
631 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 2C
Santa Monica, CA 90401-1510
T: +1 310 633 2800
355 South Grand Avenue
Suite 2700
Los Angeles, CA 90071
T: +1 213 629 2020
Los Angeles
2050 Main Street
Suite 1100
Irvine, CA 92614-8255
T: +1 949 567 6700
Orange County
Explore a career with Orrick
SoCal News
• LACBA Veterans Legal
Services Project
• Public Counsel
• National Immigration
Law Center
Family Violence Appellate Project
Working with the Family Violence Appellate Project, a California nonprofit, we obtained a successful reversal on appeal in a precedent-setting domestic violence custody case. As FVAP Staff Attorney Shuray Ghorishi put it: “This case will assist many others in a similar situation … and is a great step forward in our mission to create a strong body of published appellate case law in California to protect victims of domestic abuse and their children.”
Family Violence Appellate Project
LACBA Domestic
Violence Project
Los Angeles County Bar Association’s (LACBA)
Through our partnership with the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Domestic Violence Project, we helped a young victim pursue a restraining order against her abusive husband. She can now protect herself and her son with the assistance of the Dependency Court.
• Extraordinary Families
• Los Angeles Mission
Homeless Shelter
litigation
Calcot
LAX Airport
Ever fly through LAX – the country’s third busiest airport – and think “there’s got to be a better way!”? Investors in U.S. infrastructure have actively sought opportunities to solve LAX’s congestion problems through the airport’s multibillion-dollar LAX Landside Access Modernization Program, a
multi-phase program involving the redevelopment of LAX’s public transit and rental car facilities that will ultimately connect those facilities to the airport’s terminals. Orrick has represented infrastructure funds, design-builders and other investors in the preparation of these multi-billion dollar bid opportunities.
See our team
See our team
See our team
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Since 2011, we have collaborated with the University of California Irvine School of Law and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles on the award-winning Permanency Project, a resource to help undocumented victims of crime and domestic violence obtain permanent resident status and be free from their abusers.
The
American
Lawyer
The
American
Lawyer
Creators. Visionaries. Underdogs. The Daring.
We help you disrupt. We help you build. We protect you.
We help you win. That’s why Financial Times has named Orrick top 3 for innovation
six years in a row.
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
Orange County
Our Santa Monica office, launched in 2017, focuses on tech in a broad way and serves as a base for the firm’s tech companies work in Southern California. In the spirit of California, we’re forward-looking and constantly adapting; it’s the latest example of the continuing expansion of our
market-leading global tech platform.
In LA, we advise clients in tech, media, E&I, finance, real estate and the public sector in pursuing innovative strategies, resolving complex disputes and regulatory matters, protecting intellectual property and executing novel financings.
Our Orange County team focuses on corporate, M&A and private equity, public finance, intellectual property and commercial litigation for California and global clients.
One hundred Orrick lawyers work in
Los Angeles, Orange County and
Santa Monica. As one of the Fortune
100 Best Companies To Work For
(7 years in a row), we offer our clients
the very top legal talent.
@home in SoCal
#1 Municipal Bond Counsel Firm
Bond Buyer/Thomson Reuters
20 years
No. 2 Social
Impact Leader
Law360
2021
No. 5 on the A-List
The American Lawyer
2021
The
American
Lawyer
#4 Global VC
Law Firm
PitchBook
2021
100 Best Companies to
Work For
Fortune
2016-2022
Top 5 for pro bono in the U.S. and internationally
The American Lawyer
2021
The
American
Lawyer
Top 3 for Innovation
Financial Times
2021
(for the sixth year in a row)
Orrick: innovative legal partners.
Public Finance
Investing in our Communities
IP
Scat Enterprises
Project Finance
Macquarie Capital
Litigation
Calcot
IP
Audible Magic
Real Estate
Hackman Capital
Litigation
Xponential
finance
Ocwen Financial Corporation
infrastructure
LAX Airport
LITIGATION
Sumner Redstone
PROJECT FINANCE
NRG Energy
VENTURE CAPITAL
Silicon Beach
Silicon Beach
Our Santa Monica team brings to Silicon Beach the experience, resources and connections of Orrick’s top 3 global venture capital practice (Pitchbook). Our portfolio of more than 2,700 high-growth companies includes SoCal innovators like Beyond Meat, Cloud9, Clutter, Inspire Energy, FabFitFun, PhaseFour, PlayVs and Romeo Power. We also offer a powerful network of relationships with leading venture capital firms, incubators, investment banks and other advisors. And we help early stage companies get started through our Total Access community.
Sumner Redstone
Our securities litigators successfully represented Sumner Redstone in some of the most highly-publicized corporate governance and securities litigation matters in recent years. Orrick advised Redstone regarding the corporate governance of Viacom Inc. As The Los Angeles Times reported, “The boardroom war for control of Viacom Inc. ended in victory for Sumner Redstone and his family.” Our team also secured dismissals and favorable resolutions of shareholder class action and derivative action lawsuits filed against Redstone in connection with Viacom and CBS Corporation.
Sumner Redstone Prevails in Battle Over Viacom Leadership
Orrick Team Secures Dismissal of Shareholder Action Against Sumner Redstone
Xponential
Curator of the best brands in the Boutique fitness industry, Xponential needed to recruit new team members to help lead its exponential growth. But UFC Gyms tried to put Xponential up against the ropes when it filed an Anti-SLAPP suit to stop the recruitment of UFC employees. Xponential brought in Orrick for the knock-out punch. Since then, this Orange County-based industry leader has continued to expand its powerful national brand portfolio.
NRG Energy
Our Energy and Infrastructure team represented NRG Energy – one of the largest U.S. energy generators – in the $690 million financing of the 600MW Carlsbad Gas-Fired Energy Center in San Diego. This is one of the very few recent financings of new-build gas-fired generation in California and represents
an important step in alleviating grid loss
in the region.
Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc.
The Aliso Canyon gas leak, the largest in U.S. history, inspired our client, Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., to invest in better solutions. The result is a US$200 million portfolio of battery storage projects in Los Angeles. This first-of-its-kind project financing of aggregated demanded response battery storage contracts paves the way for greater investment in battery storage nationwide. The project was named "North American Storage Deal of the Year" at the 2017 IJ Global Awards.
Hackman Capital
We are working with a Hackman Capital-sponsored real estate fund subsidiary on the development of “The Culver Steps.” The site is between The Culver Studios historic mansion and bungalows (owned by a Hackman sponsored entity, where Amazon Studios and related divisions reside) and the iconic Culver Hotel. The renovated studios will offer 720,000 square feet – allowing Amazon to expand and offering other entertainment companies next-generation creative office and production space. The project was recognized at the 2018 Los Angeles Architectural Awards.
Ocwen Financial Corporation
Ocwen Financial Corporation knew there had to be an approach to due diligence that produced higher quality and greater efficiency. So, they collaborated with the Orrick structured finance team, Quislex and another international law firm to harness people, process and technology. The resulting project won the ACC Value Champion for Innovative Collaboration Award in 2018. We are proud to help clients like Ocwen come up with better ways to run their businesses.
Calcot
Calcot, a cooperative representing over 1,200 cotton farmers in California and neighboring states and one of the nation’s largest cotton exporters, faced a damaging lawsuit concerning its investment activities. Ready to fight, they brought in our team only three months before trial. We filed briefings and argued motions that convinced the court to rule all claims were improper – a swift and complete victory for our client. To add to the result, we recovered a significant portion of our legal fees and costs as the prevailing party.
Audible Magic
Despite early settlements by nearly all 100 parties sued by Blue Spike LLC, Orrick and Audible Magic didn’t stand down. Audible Magic faced patent infringement claims related to its audio recognition technology, and our team not only fought the allegations and obtained summary judgment of noninfringement on all claims, but we also brought on our own counterclaims. In a true reversal, Blue Spike agreed to settle Audible Magic’s counterclaims instead of facing trial, and agreed not to sue Audible Magic or its customers again.
LAX Airport
Ever fly through LAX – the country’s third busiest airport – and think “there’s got to be a better way!”? Investors in U.S. infrastructure have actively sought opportunities to solve LAX’s congestion problems through the airport’s multibillion-dollar LAX Landside Access Modernization Program, a multi-phase program involving the redevelopment of LAX’s public transit and rental car facilities that will ultimately connect those facilities to the airport’s terminals. Orrick has represented infrastructure funds, design-builders and other investors in the preparation of these multi-billion dollar bid opportunities.
Scat Enterprises
Scat Enterprises is a Redondo Beach family business – born to supply parts for dune buggies on SoCal’s beaches – that has transformed itself into a seller of high-quality precision auto parts to custom car enthusiasts worldwide. The company turned to our team when it faced serious trademark infringement claims by the Chrysler Group. The suit threatened Scat’s use of its name and the 50-year-old brand associated with the founder’s life's work. Our team helped Scat navigate a challenging litigation and ultimately achieved a successful settlement, preserving the validity of Scat’s trademark registrations.
Investing in our Communities
Orrick’s public finance practice – consistently ranked as the number one bond counsel nationwide by Thomson Reuters – is a leader in SoCal, too. We helped state and local entities raise nearly $10 billion last year to finance everything from county, city, college and school facilities to improvements to the Pasadena Rose Bowl Stadium. We also assisted with a public-private partnership lease revenue bond financing the construction of a 21-story office building on behalf of the County of Los Angeles, part of a project to bring jobs, housing and public space to a blighted area of LA.
Click to read how
We help you disrupt. We help you build. We protect you. We help you win.
Tools and Resources
A tool and resources for tech companies on the path to going public
IPO Ready
Providing entrepreneurs with today's tools for tomorrow's success
Total Access
Tough privacy regulations are coming to California.
Is your organization ready?
CCPA Readiness
Insights from thought leaders, disruptors, and visionaries who are changing the way we work and live
Profiles in Innovation
Family Violence Appellate Project
LACBA Domestic Violence Project
The Public Law Center
Other pro
bono and community service partners
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Other pro bono and community service partners
• LACBA Veterans
Legal Services Project
• Public Counsel
• National Immigration
Law Center
• Extraordinary Families
• Los Angeles Mission
Homeless Shelter
The Public Law Center
After more than five years of working alongside the Public Law Center, an Orrick pro bono team helped secure immigration relief for a client who has been in the United States for 27 years, after fleeing inhumane persecution in Mexico. For this win and his ongoing dedication, Orrick’s Kristopher Wood received PLC’s 2017 Attorney of the Year Award. Orrick partner Glenn Dassoff serves on PLC’s board.
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Since 2011, we have collaborated with the University of California Irvine School of Law and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles on the award-winning Permanency Project,
a resource to help undocumented victims
of crime and domestic violence obtain permanent resident status and be free
from their abusers.
Family Violence Appellate Project
Working with the Family Violence Appellate Project, a California nonprofit, we obtained a successful reversal on appeal in a precedent-setting domestic violence custody case. As FVAP Staff Attorney Shuray Ghorishi put it: “This case will assist many others in a similar situation … and is a great step forward in our mission to create a strong body of published appellate case law in California to protect victims of domestic abuse and their children.”
Los Angeles County Bar Association’s (LACBA)
Through our partnership with the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Domestic Violence Project, we helped a young victim pursue a restraining order against her abusive husband. She can now protect herself and her son with the assistance of the Dependency Court.
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Since 2011, we have collaborated with the University of California Irvine School of Law and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles on the award-winning Permanency Project,
a resource to help undocumented victims
of crime and domestic violence obtain permanent resident status and be free
from their abusers.
We’re grateful to our SoCal community partners who help us strengthen our community. Orrick’s pro bono record ranks us among the top five law firms in the country (The American Lawyer).
Making A Social Impact
631 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 2C
Santa Monica, CA 90401-1510
T: +1 310 633 2800
See our team
See our team
See our team
Santa Monica
777 South Figueroa Street Suite 3200
Los Angeles, CA 90017-5855
T: +1 213 629 2020
Los Angeles
2050 Main Street
Suite 1100
Irvine, CA 92614-8255
T: +1 949 567 6700
Explore a career with Orrick
Orange County
Our Southern California locations
SoCal News
Fintech, Banking & Finance, Project Finance and Appellate Practice Group of the Year
Law360
2022
California Powerhouse
Law360
2023
California Powerhouse
Law360
2022
California Powerhouse
Law360
2022
