NEW YORK, March 15, 2007 – Morrison & Foerster LLP is pleased to announce that 21 attorneys were elected to the partnership, effective January 1, 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. 

“We welcome these talented partners,” said Keith C. Wetmore, Chair of Morrison & Foerster.  “This partnership class exemplifies our depth of expertise in high stakes litigation, M&A, private equity, emerging and public companies, real estate finance, financial services, antitrust, intellectual property and life sciences in key global markets.”

2007 Partnership Class

Ann Bevitt
Ms. Bevitt is a member of the Litigation Department and resident in the firm’s London office.  Her practice covers all aspects of employment law and human resources-related matters, both contentious and non-contentious.  Ms. Bevitt works with a wide range of clients from a broad spectrum of industry sectors, including insurance, banking and financial services, venture capital and private equity, recruitment and employment, life sciences and technology.  Ms. Bevitt was called to the Bar in 1992, after graduating from Oxford University.  She practiced as a barrister specializing in employment law for seven years before qualifying as a solicitor in 2000.  She joined Morrison & Foerster in 2002.

Thomas T.H. Chou
Mr. Chou is a member of the Corporate Group and resident in the firm’s Shanghai and Palo Alto offices.  His 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 multinational, middle market and emerging growth companies in the internet, media, consumer, communications, semiconductor, healthcare and life science industries.  Mr. Chou received his J.D. from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College in 1998, where he was the Articles Editor of the Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law.  He joined Morrison & Foerster in 2004.

Jason A. Crotty
Mr. Crotty is a member of the Litigation Department and resident in the firm’s San Francisco office.  His practice focuses on intellectual property with an emphasis on patent litigation.  He has represented clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in several technologies, both in district courts and on appeal in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Mr. Crotty received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997.  Following graduation, he served as law clerk to Judge William B. Shubb of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento.  He joined Morrison & Foerster in 1998.

Natalie Diep
Ms. Diep is a member of the Corporate Group and resident in the firm’s London office.  She advises on a wide range of corporate issues, including equity offerings, private placements, IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions.  She spent a year as Legal Counsel for the Equity Capital Markets department of Lehman Brothers before joining the firm.  Ms. Diep qualified as a solicitor in 1998.  She joined Morrison & Foerster in 2005.

Wendy M. Garbers
Ms. Garbers is a member of the Litigation Department and resident in the firm’s San Francisco office.  She has a broad-based litigation practice, with an emphasis on trial work, financial services cases, and consumer class actions.  Ms. Garbers received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1998.  After graduating from law school, Ms. Garbers served as a law clerk to the Honorable James B. Loken, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.  She joined Morrison & Foerster in 2001.

Yaeko Hodaka
Ms. Hodaka is a member of the Corporate Group and resident in the firm’s Tokyo office.  Her practice encompasses M&A, general corporate and litigation matters, including director’s liability issues, hostile takeover defense and other contract disputes.  Ms. Hodaka received her LL.B. from Keio University in 1988, graduated from the Legal Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan in 1992, and received her LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 1998 and her MBA degree, magna cum laude, in 2004 from the International University in Geneva.  She joined Morrison & Foerster in 2004.

Richard S.J. Hung
Mr. Hung is a member of the Litigation Department and resident in the firm’s San Francisco office.  His practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling.  His patent matters have involved technologies such as biometric authentication, digital rights management, interactive television, Internet protocols, polymer chemistry, and public key encryption.  Mr. Hung received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1998, where he was a James Kent Scholar and a moot court editor and judge.  Before joining the firm, Mr. Hung clerked for the Honorable Paul Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.  He joined Morrison & Foerster in 2000.

Jeffrey Jaeckel
Mr. Jaeckel is a member of the Litigation Department and resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.  He has particular experience representing corporations in connection with private antitrust litigation and in guiding corporations through the domestic and international merger review process. Mr. Jaeckel also assists clients in the protection of their intellectual property and counsels clients on the antitrust ramifications of commercial agreements to capitalize on the value of intellectual property.  Mr. Jaeckel received his J.D., with honors, in 1998 from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as a member of the writing staff for the Wisconsin Environmental Law Journal and was selected to the Order of the Coif.  He joined Morrison & Foerster in 2001.

Scott A. Jalowayski
Mr. Jalowayski is a member of the Corporate Group and resident in the firm’s Hong Kong office.  His practice is focused on China-related investments by investment banks, private equity funds 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.  Mr. Jalowayski 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.

Richard C. Kim
Mr. Kim is a member of the Patent Group and resident in the firm’s San Diego office.  His practice focuses primarily on patent procurement and intellectual property litigation.  Mr. Kim has assisted clients, including start-ups and established corporations, in procuring patents and developing patent portfolio strategies in a variety of technological fields.  Mr. Kim received his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1995.  He joined Morrison & Foerster in 2000.

Glenn M. Kubota
Mr. Kubota is a member of the Patent Group and resident in the firm’s Los Angeles and Orange County offices.  He specializes in patent prosecution, client counseling, and litigation support for high technology clients.  Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Kubota worked at Hughes Aircraft Company in the Space and Communications Group for over 12 years.  Mr. Kubota received a B.S in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and received his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1997.  He joined Morrison & Foerster in 2001.

Scott F. Llewellyn
Mr. Llewellyn is a member of the Litigation Department and resident in the firm’s Denver office.  His practice involves complex litigation before state and federal courts throughout the country, with an emphasis on patent disputes.  Mr. Llewellyn received his J.D. from theUniversity of Michigan Law School, cum laude, in 1997, where he served as Executive Articles Editor for the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review. After law school, Mr. Llewellyn clerked for the Honorable Clarence A. Brimmer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, and for the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.He joined Morrison & Foerster in 2003.

Scott A. McPhee
Mr. McPhee is a member of the Real Estate Group and resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office.  His practice covers a broad range of real estate and finance transactions, with a particular emphasis on capital markets (CMBS) financing, mezzanine and other subordinate loans, syndicated credit facilities, loan repurchase and warehouse facilities, and construction lending. Mr. McPhee received his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1998.  He joined Morrison & Foerster in 1998.