Who we are.
Robin J. Lee
Robin is a former partner in the Technology Transactions Group at the AmLaw 100 global law firm of Cooley LLP, where he practiced for over seventeen years in its Silicon Valley offices. After leaving that firm, he planned, funded, and executed projects aimed at addressing selected problems in the security, defense, and intelligence domain. Today, he specializes in complex IP and commercial technology transactions and oversees the Orbitalis Advanced Research Projects function.
Robin has hands-on experience representing clients in a broad array of industries, including software (both on-premise and SaaS), cloud services/managed computing, security, semiconductor, advanced materials science, wireless and related technologies, AI/machine learning, and data storage/analytics. He negotiates commercial and IP arrangements of all flavors, including strategic patent licenses, inbound and outbound supply chain agreements, IP-focused M&A, joint ventures, technology transfers, joint development agreements, and strategic collaboration agreements.
He has developed proactive legal strategies for new lines of business launched by companies of all sizes; collaborated with founders and management principals on novel business model ideation and refinement; served as a risk scout on due diligence investigations for acquisitions, venture financings, strategic investments, and IPOs; and produced modular contract templates and custom legal playbooks to support new product rollouts and revenue model transformation.
Both a builder of institutional expertise and an expert in his own right, Robin was a supervisory subject matter expert on open-source software, national security encryption export controls, and other specialized topics, and built expert advisor teams from scratch in multiple disciplines. He oversaw firmwide training for Cooley’s Technology Transactions Group, has frequently been engaged to train in-house legal staffs and outside lawyers, and taught a regular tech transactions course at Stanford Law School from 2014 to 2020.
Robin served in various roles at the Silicon Valley element of the FBI’s public-private partnership for information-sharing and infrastructure security, including fifteen years’ service on its board of directors. He has been named in various editions of Legal 500, IAM Licensing 250, Top Attorneys/Rising Stars (Northern California), among others, and has received the FBI Director’s commendation for Exceptional Service in the Public Interest. Robin writes code when necessary, and is a member of the Association of Old Crows and the U.S. Naval Institute.
Robin earned his J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he served as publisher of The Yale Journal of International Law and sat on the admissions committee of the Yale Law Journal. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley.
Email: rjlee@orbitalis.law
Phone: +1 (650) 614-1777
Signal: +1 (650) 935-5032
Oliver K. Breme, Ph.D.
Oliver represents clients across a wide variety of technology industries, including semiconductor, space, software (on-premise and SaaS), e-commerce, and PaaS and IaaS companies. He works on the drafting and negotiation of complex commercial deals, and supports clients in the development of new business and product lines on a global scale.
Both a practicing lawyer and a seasoned business leader, Oliver served as General Counsel of multiple global e-commerce companies and as Chief Financial Officer of one of them. He built and led legal, compliance, and finance teams distributed across the globe, oversaw litigation and legal operations, and had strategic involvement in all significant client relationships and corporate development activities. He spearheaded business transformation from on-premise to cloud offerings and to recurring-revenue models, established operations in the Asian market, built whole legal teams after a divestiture, and was deeply involved in the legal support of the sales, business development, and product functions.
Earlier in his career, Oliver was in private practice in the Silicon Valley office of Cooley LLP, where he drafted and negotiated complex IP and commercial technology agreements, worked on M&A transactions, and advised clients ranging from Silicon Valley startups to multi-billion dollar global enterprises on a wide variety of legal topics.
Oliver was a founding member of the first Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certification authority accredited under EU and German electronic signature and encryption laws. He has considerable experience with standard-setting bodies, industry groups, and in the regulatory and political arena.
Oliver is a frequent speaker and panelist on technology and business subjects at a wide variety of forums, including at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University (where he taught IP Commercialization), the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley, and Singularity University Labs.
Oliver holds a Ph.D. in Information Security and a legal degree (J.D. equivalent) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn (Germany). He also earned an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford Law School, where he was a member of the Stanford Technology Law Review. He is admitted to practice both in California and in Germany.
Email: okbreme@orbitalis.law
Phone: +1 (650) 804-6573