People

Sumaia Tabassum Associate

New York

Sumaia is experienced in inter partes review proceedings and IP due diligence, including matters involving pharmaceuticals, software, electronics, and medical devices. She also has a strong technical background from her prior work as a systems engineer, and has supported projects involving complex technologies.

Emily S. Tabatabai Partner

Washington, D.C.; Houston

Emily provides strategic counseling and advice on privacy, consumer protection and online safety matters to clients across industries, including retail, ecommerce, mobile apps, gaming, social media, advertising technology (adtech), financial services, education, business services and technology. She also represents clients subject to regulatory investigations, including before the FTC and States Attorneys General, Congressional committees and other regulatory agencies and groups.

Emily provides proactive compliance guidance, and regulatory investigation defense, on a variety of privacy and consumer protection laws, including:

• U.S. state comprehensive privacy laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Virginia and others
• Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
• Online safety laws for kids and teens, including California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), Texas SCOPE Act, Maryland Kids Code, New York Child Data Protection Act and others
• Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act) and state unfair and deceptive acts and practices (UDAP) laws
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
• California’s Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA), New York’s Ed. Law 2-d and other state student data privacy laws
• Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and other biometric privacy laws
• Washington My Health My Data Act and other state health privacy laws
• U.S. artificial intelligence laws including chatbots
• Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
• Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
• Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR)
• Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (ROSCA)

Emily led the development of Orrick's Online Safety Law Center & U.S. Law Tracker and closely monitors State AG enforcement activities and civil litigation in this space to help clients anticipate and mitigate emerging risks.

Emily is a frequent speaker on data privacy matters, with a particular focus on children’s privacy (COPPA), student data privacy and EdTech and online safety laws for kids and teens. She has been featured as an “Up and Coming” Privacy & Data Security attorney by Chambers USA and Chambers Global. Clients tell Chambers, “She’s been an excellent partner. She has a very good understanding of the practical realities of implementing privacy policies for large companies.” Citing her expertise in the field of educational privacy, student data and EdTech matters, Chambers reports that clients regard her as “very knowledgeable and truly an expert in this space,” with some saying, “On the student data side, she is unmatched,” and The Legal 500 notes that Emily “is the first port of call for child- and student-directed service providers for compliance advice with COPPA, SOPIPA and CalOPPA regulations.”

Emily also has an active consumer protection practice, focused on marketing and promotional issues. She counsels clients on advertisements and endorsements, retail sales and e-commerce, advertising substantiation, SMS and telemarketing, social media and online advertising.

Akira Takahashi Partner

Tokyo

Leveraging a strong track record over decades of advising sponsors, project companies, borrowers, lenders and international and governmental institutions on inbound and outbound Japanese investments, Akira provides strategic and commercial advice and solid documentation throughout the entire lifecycle of projects and financings to key stakeholders.

Clients comment that “Akira is very strong in every aspect” and “demonstrates commercial acuity in challenging situations and is able to help both domestic and international counterparties come around to a common solution.” (Chambers Asia-Pacific 2025)

Kazuya Takeda Associate

Tokyo

He specializes in data protection and cybersecurity, including personal information protection. Additionally, he manages civil and commercial litigation and dispute resolution, cross-border and domestic M&A,  investigation, antitrust and competition, and labor and employment related matters. He also has experience in general corporate legal affairs.

Before joining Orrick, he worked for Kasame & Associates Co., Ltd. located in Thailand and provided Japanese corporate clients with a variety of legal services regarding Thai laws, including the Personal Data Protection Act, Labour Protection Act, Civil and Commercial Code, Trademark Act, Foreign Business Act, etc. for over two years. Prior to working in Thailand, he was an associate at Okamura Law Office and mainly handled civil litigations, general corporate cases, and trade competition law cases for about three years.

Alex Talarides Partner

San Francisco

Alex is recognized by Chambers and Legal 500 as an "Up and Coming" and "Rising Star" in securities litigation. He has extensive experience representing public and private companies and their D&Os, as well as investment banks and underwriters, in securities and corporate governance-related litigation and other complex commercial litigation. He also regularly advises companies and their boards on corporate governance best practices and fiduciary and disclosure duties, frequently presents and publishes on these topics, and teaches a full-semester course on transactional and shareholder litigation at the University of California Berkeley School of Law.

Alex earned his Juris Doctor degree, with Honors, Order of the Coif, from the University of Chicago Law School, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Davis.

Gargi Talukder Partner

San Francisco

Gargi’s work in protein therapeutics includes patent estate development for antibody and fusion protein therapeutics and utilizes her knowledge of the patent landscape in this area to inform strategic portfolio management. In the fields of genomics and proteomics, she has conducted diligence and developed portfolios related to the biochemistry of sequencing technologies, as well as to the associated devices and machine learning methods utilized in sequencing methods. In the field of cancer immunotherapies (immuno-oncology), she has developed portfolios related to cell-based immunotherapy approaches, including targeted immune cell therapies and immunological pathway interventions.

In addition, Gargi assists clients in providing intellectual property support for transactional matters, including diligence for mergers and acquisitions as well as financing rounds. Her technical experience is routinely called upon in helping to develop litigation strategies for complex and high-stakes trials.

Gargi has authored scientific papers in peer-reviewed publications, as well as articles discussing medical and biological research in general-interest newspapers and periodicals. Her doctoral work in Neuroscience from Stanford University focused on structure-function studies in ion channels, with an emphasis on using genetic engineering and electrophysiology to identify structural elements of potassium channels that lead to their voltage and chemical sensitivity.

David Tan Managing Associate

London

David advises financial institutions, corporations and managers in connection with securitisations, CLOs and ABS transactions across a range of asset classes. David also has experience in RMBS transactions, including public securitisations, private warehouses and forward flows.

Baptiste Tanchoux Associate

Paris; Paris Tech Studio

From Orrick Paris Tech Studio, Baptiste blends a strategic legal mindset with deep enthusiasm for technology, empowering startups and investors to navigate complex legal landscapes.

Baptiste advises founders, tech companies and venture capital investors on various aspects of their growth journey, including fundraisings, corporate governance matters, employee incentive plans and M&A transactions.

Elodie Tancray Managing Associate

Paris

Elodie’s practice focuses on restructuring and insolvency advising all the stakeholders (alternative investors, lenders, creditors, debtors, buyers etc.) whether in an amicable or judicial context. whether in an amicable or judicial context.

Elodie has worked as a trainee in leading French law firms.

Prior to joining Orrick, she was an associate at a UK law firm.

Palak Taneja Managing Associate

San Francisco

Palak has served as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters’ counsel and issuer’s counsel on various types of financing structures including general obligation financings, tax and revenue anticipation financings, current and advance refundings, lease revenue financings, certificates of participation, and special tax financings for Mello Roos community facilities districts, school districts, community college districts, local government and state agency clients. Palak also represents investment banking institutions in governmental and qualified private activity bond transactions across industry segments.

Palak is a dual qualified attorney, licensed to practice law in California and India. Prior to joining Orrick, Palak worked with a law firm in New Delhi, India and represented governmental entities and private parties in international commercial arbitration and business disputes.

Mathilde Tanniou Associate

Paris

Mathilde advises founders, startups and venture capital investors throughout their growth lifecycle, including on fundraising, corporate governance and the issuance of customized equity instruments.

Before joining Orrick, Mathilde was an associate at the Paris office of Gowling WLG and at Eight Advisory Avocats.

Tor Tarantola Managing Associate

Washington, D.C.

While his experience runs the gamut, Tor’s practice focuses principally on intellectual-property disputes and litigation against government agencies. On the IP side, in addition to representing clients on appeal, he works actively with trial counsel at the district-court and agency levels, helping to build favorable records and preserve strong arguments. On the government-facing side, he chiefly litigates challenges to federal regulatory amendments, taking cases from notice and comment to filing to injunction and through appeal.

Tor has authored or coauthored briefs in the Supreme Court, the Fourth, Fifth, Federal, and D.C. Circuits, the ITC, FTC, and PTAB, the Delaware Court of Chancery, and several state appellate and federal district courts.

Before joining Orrick, Tor clerked for Judge Myrna Pérez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced in the appellate group of another global law firm. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he won first prize in the Joseph A. Chubb brief-writing competition and shared the Thomas I. Emerson prize for research related to statutory interpretation.