Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that the firm’s China and Japan practices ranked highly in Asia Pacific Legal 500's 2009/2010 directory, receiving top recognition in 26 practice areas (of which seven were Tier 1 rankings for TMT, Capital Markets, Real Estate, Dispute Resolution, and Intellectual Property Practices) and 22 individual lawyer recommendations.
Published for more than 20 years, the Legal 500 series is one of the global legal markets’s leading directories, providing comprehensive worldwide coverage on law firms in over 100 countries. Practice areas and attorney rankings within the guide come from a year of extensive, independently conducted research and in-depth interviews with in-house counsel, peers, and competitors in the respective practice fields.
What Asia Pacific Legal 500 says about Morrison & Foerster:
- Within Capital Markets (Debt and Equity): “The ‘top notch’ practice at Morrison & Foerster successfully completed four China-related IPOs in 2008 [and] the team also acted for UBS, JPMorgan and CITIC in the $1.2bn Hong Kong IPO of China Zhongwang. Hong Kong managing partner Ven Tan is the leading individual.”
- Within Private Equity: "Great, particularly for venture capital."
- Within Real Estate:“A ‘solid firm with a strong practice and good lawyers’.”
- Within TMT: “Rated as ‘great for TMT’, Morrison & Foerster is increasing its market profile in China with ‘strong corporate and technical IT/IP capabilities.’ ”
Asia Pacific Legal 500 also recognized the firm in the following practice areas:
China
Hong Kong
- Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- Corporate (including M&A)
- Private Equity
- TMT
Japan