Morrison & Foerster is a leading international law firm with a diversified presence in each of China's major business centers: Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. With nearly 80 US, PRC and HK qualified legal professionals, Morrison & Foerster provides integrated platform to advise our clients on US, PRC and HK law issues. Morrison & Foerster has been handling major matters in greater China for more than twenty-five years, having opened its Hong Kong office in 1983. Morrison & Foerster's China office and global network of 1,000 lawyers in 16 offices worldwide provides international clients with comprehensive coverage for investment, finance and regulatory matters, and gives PRC companies a readily accessible local source of support for their international activities. Key areas of the firm's practice in China are:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Securities & Capital Markets
- Real Estate
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Technology Transactions
- Intellectual Property & Litigation
While our lawyers in China represent a wide range of clients, they have particular expertise in working with multinationals, domestic companies, and foreign and domestic venture capital and private equity investors active in China's technology industries, and with technology-based and institutional PRC companies, including life science, cleantech, telecommunications, entertainment & media, and semiconductors. Our China Practice and attorneys are recognized by:
- Global Finance magazine selected Morrison & Foerster as the "Best Legal Adviser in Asia" for the second consecutive year in a row as part of its "World's Best Investment Banks" survey.
- Asialaw Leading Lawyers recognizes our partners as leading lawyers in China in the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Corporate Finance, and Telecommunications.
- Chambers Asia ranks the firm in band 1 for private equity and venture capital in China and for in band 2 for mergers and acquisitions and private equity-buyouts in China.
- Legal 500 Asia-Pacific ranks Morrison & Foerster as the only firm in Tier 1 for Technology and Telecoms in Hong Kong since 2006. The firm is also ranked in Tier 1 for Technology and Telecoms and Capital Markets in China, and ranked as a leading firm in 5 other practices areas in China and Hong Kong.
- PLC Cross Border's Private Equity Handbook has highly recommended the firm as a leading advisor for private equity and venture capital investments in Hong Kong and China every year since 2006.
- IFLR1000 and Chambers Asia ranks the firm in tier 2 for private equity-buyouts.
The firm is honored to have recently completed our seven year engagement as sole international legal counsel to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad in connection with its activities for the 2008 Summer Games.