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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 more than 60 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 over twenty years, having opened its Hong Kong office in 1982. After opening our Beijing office in 1998, Morrison & Foerster became one of the first international law firms to receive approval from the PRC Ministry of Justice to open a second office in China (Shanghai) in December 2002. The firm opened its Shanghai office the following year in March 2003.
Morrison & Foerster’s China office and global network of 1,000 lawyers in 18 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, securities offerings, private equity and venture capital, real estate and foreign direct investment. 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 technology-based and institutional PRC companies, including telecommunications, entertainment & media, semiconductors and life sciences.
The firm is honored to have been retained as international legal counsel to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad in connection with its activities for the 2008 Summer Games.
