Cleantech -- Fuel Cells and Batteries

Morrison & Foerster has led the way in the Cleantech sector for decades, representing clients in related industries for more than 30 years. During this time, the firm has counseled a broad range of investors, emerging companies, and established companies that are making huge strides in fuel cell and battery innovation in order to bring new technologies and products to the marketplace.

Morrison & Foerster can provide advice on fuel cell industry-specific challenges, including:

• Advise on your overall patent and intellectual property portfolio to help design a strategy that enhances your competitive advantage.
• Assist with agreements related to research and development: developing technology in-house, sponsoring research at universities, and jointly developing or acquiring technology with third parties.
• Help you set up strategic and manufacturing relationships that directly affect your fuel cell technology.
• Assist you in obtaining access to a variety of input materials from manufacturers.
• Provide advice on environmental concerns regarding the manufacture and disposal of batteries.
• Help you stay ahead of market trends related to fuel cell and battery technology, and emerging state and local regulatory developments to effectively structure plans as soon as new standards are implemented.
• Support you in bringing your fuel cell product to market by negotiating agreements with distributors, sales representatives, and customers.

Morrison & Foerster can also advise you on critical business issues, such as:

• Help emerging and privately owned companies succeed at every stage of development – from initial business formation to raising venture capital financing and achieving a successful exit through a sale, public offering, or merger.
• Advise publicly listed companies on a full range of securities laws and related matters, including the disclosure and regulatory obligations of the SEC, national exchanges and associations, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other corporate governance matters. We can also counsel your board of directors and committees on corporate governance and other issues.
• Advise on how to capture the full value of your intellectual property, trade secrets, trademarks, and other innovations. We also counsel you on an overall intellectual property portfolio management and strategy.
• Help you scale and grow through assisting you on strategic alliances, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, and other capital-raising activities.
• Defend your firm’s interests through our best-in-class litigation, arbitration, and mediation services, and protect the full value and competitive advantage of your assets, revenue, and income – including your intellectual property (e.g., patents, trademarks, trade secrets), securities, capital structure (e.g., stock options, equities, debt), environmental position (e.g., carbon credits, land use), and more.