Morrison & Foerster’s corporate practice includes a large number of attorneys who have focused their careers advising on mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. We have deep and broad experience in mergers and acquisitions, both domestic and cross-border, representing acquirers and sellers in private and public transactions. Our attorneys regularly advise on complex structural and corporate issues associated with M+A, joint ventures, and equity/debt investments. Our M+A lawyers also frequently advise on deals with complex intellectual property issues.
We represent private equity investors in complex matters such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, spin-offs, cross-border deals, and leveraged buyouts. Our attorneys have extensive experience in representing acquirers, private equity funds, and targets in all manner of transactions, including mergers, stock purchases, recapitalizations, and tender offers, both friendly and hostile. We also represent a significant number of investment banks in their M+A advisory capacities.
The M+A group has broad experience in related party transactions, such as going private transactions; our representations in that regard include related parties, board members, and special committees.
As a global law firm, we have substantial experience in cross-border transactions involving clients in the U.S., Asia, and Europe, as well as in Israel. Our collaborative approach offers clients the most effective and experienced representation available, both from attorneys in corporate transactions and from those in other practice areas, including tax, intellectual property, and litigation.
Our M+A attorneys are experienced in most key industry sectors, but we are particularly known for our work with clients in consumer products and financial services, energy (particularly the evolving renewable and alternative energy sectors), life sciences, media, technology (information technology, computer products and peripherals, semiconductors, software), and telecommunications.
Our clients include Astellas Pharma, Boyd Gaming Corporation, The Clorox Company, Freescale Semiconductor, Fujitsu, Gruppo Campari, Hitachi, Intel Corp/Intel Capital Corp, Japan Airlines, Korn/Ferry International, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Mitsui, Nikon, Restoration Hardware, Ricoh, TDK, Thomson (Technicolor), and Toshiba.