Contact:
Walter I. Conroy,
Gregory M. Giammittorio,
Gavin B. Grover,
Michael G. O'Bryan or
Lawrence T. Yanowitch
Morrison & Foerster has wide-ranging experience representing clients involved in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
and other strategic alliances, with particular expertise in cross-border transactions and deals involving technology companies.
The firm has represented clients involved in some of the largest and most complex strategic M&A transactions in U.S. history,
including Mercury Interactive Corporation in its $4.5 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard Company, Abraxis BioScience in
a spin-off of its proprietary business in a transaction resulting in two separate publicly-traded companies valued at $2.3
billion, Dubai International Capital in its proposed $1.2 billion acquisition of Almatis, and The Clorox Company in its $950
million all-cash acquisition of Burt’s Bees. In addition, the firm has significant experience in representing clients in financial
and strategic transactions of all sizes and across most key industries, including technology, telecommunications, media, life
sciences, financial services, defense, consumer products, cleantech and retailing.
Morrison & Foerster has consistently been ranked as one of the top law firms representing M&A clients in the world’s most
respected surveys and tables, including Mergerstat, PLC Mergers &Acquisitions Handbook, Chambers Global: Worlds Leading Lawyers,
etc. The firm was ranked as the #1 by Bloomberg Global in number of announced deals with any involvement by Japanese companies in 2007 and as a Tier 1 firm by International Financial Law Review-1000 for Mergers and Acquisitions in Japan in 2008. The firm has been recommended for U.S. Corporate / M&A clients in 2007/2008 by PLC Handbook Mergers & Acquisitions. In 2007, the firm served as M&A counsel on more than 120 transactions, with a total disclosed value of approximately $70
billion.
Morrison & Foerster represents publicly and privately held companies, as well as private equity investors, in complex matters
such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, spin-offs, cross-border deals and leveraged buyouts. The firm has extensive
experience representing acquirers, private equity funds and targets in all manner of transactions, including mergers, stock
purchases, recapitalizations and tender and exchange offers, both friendly and hostile, and has advised clients on a comprehensive
range of offensive and defensive techniques, including poison pills and other measures. We also represent a significant number
of investment banks in their M&A advisory capacities. The firm has broad experience in related party transactions, such as
going private transactions, and our representation in that regard has included related parties, Board members and special
committees.
As an international law firm, Morrison & Foerster has substantial experience in cross-border transactions involving clients
in the U.S., Asia, and Europe as well as Israel. The firm's teamwork approach means that clients receive the most effective
and experienced representation available, both from specialists in corporate transactions and from attorneys versed in other
practice areas, including tax, intellectual property and litigation.
