Rex Niswander, Of Counsel in Morrison & Foerster's New York office, is a corporate lawyer primarily engaged in international business transactions. Mr. Niswander has documented and negotiated a variety of international acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, technology transfers and other transactions and commercial agreements, typically representing the non-U.S. party or its U.S. subsidiary. He also has diverse experience in general corporate and commercial matters for clients in the pharmaceuticals, electronics, financial, manufacturing, media and other industries. He is experienced in counseling start-up operations as well as general counseling of foreign enterprises doing business in the United States.

Mr. Niswander has extensive experience representing U.S. and foreign clients in immigration issues, including non-immigrant (H-1, L, E, TN) business visas, student and trainee (F, J, H-3) visas and related matters.

Mr. Niswander is the author of the United States chapter in International Protection of Foreign Investment (BNA 1997), and a contributor to A Guide to Foreign Investment in the United States (2nd edition, Longman 1992).