Morrison & Foerster LLP

Overview:

Morrison & Foerster is a global firm with over 1,000 lawyers with 16 offices around the world. Our attorneys share high standards, a commitment to excellence, and a passion for helping their clients succeed.

■ Our Corporate Practice represents some of the most dynamic companies in the world and advises on venture financing, public and private offerings, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions.
■ Our Capital Markets Practice is a pioneer in developing synthetic products, hybrid securities, structured notes, and derivatives.
■ Our Financial Services Regulatory Practice brings to bear decades of banking experience and an exceptional breadth and depth of financial services regulatory expertise.
■ Our Finance and Infrastructure attorneys have expertise in project development and finance, as well as debt, lease, securitization, sovereign debt restructuring, and debt/equity swaps.
■ Our Intellectual Property Practice is one of the largest and top-ranked in the U.S., with over 300 lawyers providing a full range of services in patent, trademark, and copyright matters.
■ Our Litigation Practice includes some of the top trial and appellate lawyers in the U.S., as well as leading practitioners in the areas of securities, antitrust, products liability, class action defense, unfair competition, international arbitration, employment, financial services, and intellectual property.
■ Our real estate and land use attorneys advise major lenders, investors, developers, private equity and pension funds, and REITs in connection with financing, acquisition, entitlement and development, investment, ownership, leasing, construction, management, and restructuring.
■ Our Tax Practice advises on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and real estate transactions and includes the U.S.’s leading State and Local Tax Practice and a highly skilled Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group.

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