Morrison & Foerster
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| Headquarters |
425 Market Street San Francisco |
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| No. of offices | 16 |
| No. of attorneys | 988 (2015) |
| Major practice areas | Mergers and acquisitions, litigation and arbitration, corporate finance, corporate restructuring, securities, banking, project finance, energy and infrastructure, antitrust, tax, intellectual property, life sciences |
| Key people | Larren M. Nashelsky (Chair) |
| Revenue | $968.5 million (2015) |
| Profit per equity partner | $1.4 million (2015) |
| Date founded | 1883 |
| Founder | Alexander Morrison |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
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| www.mofo.com | |
Morrison & Foerster LLP, informally referred to as "MoFo," is an elite international law firm with 16 offices located throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. The firm has approximately 1,000 lawyers who advise clients across a range of industries and practices, including intellectual property, patent litigation, corporate/M&A, business restructuring, and securities. MoFo represents some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world including Apple, Intel, Lucasfilm, Bank of America, Oracle, and Toshiba, among others.[4] Headquartered in San Francisco, MoFo is consistently considered to be the most prestigious law firm in the region.
Morrison & Foerster represents a broad cross-section of clients, including leaders in technology and life sciences, Fortune 100 companies, and financial institutions. The firm also advises startup companies and investment funds, helping many over the years in their growth and development as industry leaders and familiar household brands.
The firm was the lead bankruptcy counsel to Residential Capital (ResCap), which was among the world’s largest real estate origination and servicing companies (with more than $15 billion in assets and liabilities prior to its bankruptcy filing). In December 2013, a Morrison & Foerster bankruptcy team scored a decisive victory for ResCap when Judge Martin Glenn of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York confirmed ResCap’s chapter 11 plan. Judge Glenn described the proceeding as "the most legally and factually complex case" that he had presided over in his seven years on the bench.
In July 2013, Morrison & Foerster represented SoftBank in its $21.6 billion acquisition of a 78 percent stake in Sprint Nextel. According to The Wall Street Journal, the transaction was "one of the most complex and unusual deals in the annals of takeovers." The firm also represented SoftBank, a longtime client, in Alibaba’s U.S. IPO—the largest IPO in history—and in the carve-out and restructuring of Alibaba’s financial services businesses in preparation for the IPO.
Chair: Larren Nashelsky
Chief Operating Officer: Pat Cavaney
Managing Partners: Paul Friedman, Craig Martin, Eric Piesner, Tessa J. Schwartz
Corporate Department Co-Chairs: Brandon Parris, Thomas Knox
Finance Department Co-Chairs: Gary Lee, Nicholas Spiliotes
Litigation Department Chair: Benjamin Fox
Tax Department Co-Chairs: Craig Fields, Thomas Humphreys, David Strong
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