Sean T. Byrne practices in the Private Equity Fund Group from the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster. He primarily advises private equity, venture capital, and real estate fund sponsors on entity selection, tax planning needs, securities laws issues, and ERISA concerns. He also has experience representing state and foreign governmental investors in venture capital and real estate funds.

Mr. Byrne graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center where he and a professor developed some helpful tax software they occasionally regret not commercializing. While in law school, Mr. Byrne worked in the corporate and real estate groups of a Southeast Asian law firm and also defended the private property rights and economic freedoms of individuals at a national, non-profit litigation firm.

Mr. Byrne received his undergraduate degree in cognitive science with an emphasis in neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley, where he served one year as University Cannoneer and was a guest lecturer for a “History of the University of California” class.

Mr. Byrne is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the Business Law and Taxation sections of the American Bar Association and has served as a judge for the Law School Tax Challenge sponsored by the ABA Tax Section.