Contact:
Robert S. Townsend
Morrison & Foerster’s firm-wide corporate group includes over 220 attorneys located throughout our global network of offices.
We have corporate practitioners situated in each of the major finance, technology and life sciences markets in which we operate,
including California, Colorado, New York, Northern Virginia, London, Tokyo, and China. We are particularly well established
in California with corporate lawyers resident in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego. In
Japan, Morrison & Foerster and its partner, Ito & Mitomi, are recognized as having Japan’s leading corporate practices. In
China, we have U.S., PRC and Hong Kong qualified corporate lawyers available to assist clients through our Hong Kong, Beijing
and Shanghai offices.
Morrison & Foerster’s corporate practitioners have the collective expertise to advise on every phase of a company’s growth
cycle: venture capital financing, licensing, collaborations and other commercial agreements, public and private securities
offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and general public and private daytoday company representation. Internally, our corporate
group is organized around five subgroups that mirror our expertise in :
- Capital markets and securities offerings,
- Emerging companies and venture capital,
- Mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures,
- Private equity fund formation and investments, and
- Public company counseling.
Morrison & Foerster’s corporate attorneys are experienced in most key industry sectors, including computer products and peripherals,
semiconductors, software, life sciences, information technology, telecommunications, media, consumer products and financial
services, REITs and energy.
Our corporate clients include a diverse mix of public and private companies, industry leaders and entrepreneurs. Representative
clients: American Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc., Bakbone Software, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Boyd Gaming Corporation,
The Campari Group, Cell BioSciences, CIBC World Markets, The Clorox Company, Cogent Systems, Crdentia, Deutsche Bank Securities,
Digirad, Digimarc, Dynavax Technologies, Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Forward Ventures, Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co., Inc.,
Fujitsu, Fujikura, Global Cash Access, Harris Nesbitt, Hitachi, JDS Uniphase, JMP Securities, Joyo.com, Kémia, Lehman Brothers,
Linktone, MarketWatch, Mediabolic, Mindspeed Technologies, Mineral Acquisition Partners, NetEase, Newell Rubbermaid, Nikon,
Novellus, Pathway Capital Management, Pequot Capital, PowerDsine, Punk Ziegel, Restoration Hardware, Seven Hills, SG Cowen,
Syneron Medical, Sutter Hill Ventures, Technicolor, Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, Thomson, Toshiba, United Dominion Realty Trust,
Vernalis, WR Hambrecht+Co.
