Six new China partners in the last seven months
Hong Kong, March 21, 2007 – Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that Scott Jalowayski and Thomas Chou have been elected to the firm's worldwide partnership, effective January 1, 2007 in the firm's Corporate Group in China. Mr. Jalowayski is based in the firm's Hong Kong office and Mr. Chou is resident in the firm's Shanghai office. The two appointments mark a total of 6 new China partners that have joined the firm's China practice within the past 7 months.
"Morrison & Foerster's China Practice has seen tremendous growth within the last year," says Ven Tan, Managing Partner of Morrison & Foerster's Hong Kong Office. He notes the arrival of leading technology and sourcing partners, Nigel Stamp and Gordon Milner, who joined the firm's Hong Kong office in August 2006 and the recent arrival of Hong Kong-based partners, Marcia Ellis and J. Edward Li, to the firm's private equity and capital markets practices in February 2007 as examples.
"The addition of these new partners highlights Morrison & Foerster's success in China in these core practices, and reaffirms the firm's commitment to expanding its premier corporate and technology practice in China,” continues Tan.
"Scott Jalowayski and Thomas Chou both play a pivotal role in our China private equity and mergers and acquisitions team, and have extensive experience working on complex cross-border deals for premier investors and companies," says Charles Comey, Managing Partner of Morrison & Foerster's Shanghai Office. "Together with Edward Li and Marcia Ellis, Scott and Thomas bring added U.S. depth of expertise in all phases of companies' and funds' life cycles. We're delighted to have them as partners."
Mr. Jalowayski's practice focuses on China-related investments by private equity funds, investment banks, and multinationals, and involves a broad range of cross-border transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions (including LBOs), restructurings, and venture financings. He also has significant Japan-related cross-border transactional experience, having been previously based in Morrison & Foerster’s Tokyo office. Mr. Jalowayski received his J.D., summa cum laude, from New York Law School in 1998. While at New York Law School, Mr. Jalowayski was an Articles Editor of the New York Law School Law Review. He joined Morrison & Foerster in 2000.
Mr. Chou's practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital financings and joint ventures and strategic alliances. His clients include leading private equity and venture capital investors, and companies in the internet, media, consumer, communications, semiconductor, healthcare and life science industries. Mr. Chou received his J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School in 1998, where he was the Articles Editor of the Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law.
A total of 21 attorneys were elected worldwide to the Firm’s partnership in 2007. The new partners represent twelve offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia, and five practice areas including: corporate, litigation, patent, technology transactions, and real estate.