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Morrison & Foerster Secures Seven Shortlist Nominations in Six Categories in ALM’s Asia Legal Awards 2019

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Morrison & Foerster announced today that the firm has been shortlisted for six Deal Awards and one Individual Award in ALM’s Asia Legal Awards 2019.

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<a href="https://www.mofo.com/">Morrison & Foerster</a> announced today that the firm has been shortlisted for six Deal Awards and one Individual Award in ALM’s Asia Legal Awards 2019. The firm was nominated for excellence in legal services in the following five deal categories:<ul class="li-margin"><li>Deal Awards, M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia (sale of Toshiba Memory Corp.)</li><li>M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia (Grab’s acquisition of Uber’s Southeast Asia business)</li><li>Private Equity Deal of the Year (Ant Financial's Series C financing)</li><li>Energy and Infrastructure Project of the Year (DT Energy’s acquisition of solar power projects)</li><li>TMT Deal of the Year (Alibaba’s acquisition of <a href="http://ele.me/" target="_blank">Ele.me</a>; and Grab’s acquisition of Uber’s Southeast Asia business)</li></ul>Additionally, <a href="/people/marcia-ellis.html">Marcia Ellis</a>, co-head of Morrison & Foerster’s Asia <a href="/practices/business-finance/private-equity-investments-buyouts/">Private Equity practice</a> and a member of the firm’s global board of directors, was shortlisted in the Individual Awards category for M&A Lawyer of the Year. Ms. Ellis is one of the most experienced M&A lawyers active in the Asian market, having practiced in Asia for 22 years. Ms. Ellis’s practice focuses on M&A and private equity transactions across Asia and beyond. In the past 12 months alone, she has advised clients on deals the aggregate value of which is well in excess of US$75 billion.“We are proud that our clients trust us to advise them on their market-shaping deals and transactions,” said Morrison & Foerster Asia Managing Partner <a href="/people/eric-piesner.html">Eric Piesner</a>. “This recognition is a testament to the skills of our exceptionally talented legal team in Asia and our ability to guide clients through their most complex and high impact legal work in the region and beyond.”Considered one of Asia’s most renowned ceremonies for the legal elite, the Asia Legal Awards honor the best work in the region. Covering a number of relevant practice areas and disciplines, the awards seek to identify the most important transactions and cases with the most complex and outstanding legal work in Asia.For more information about the ALM Asia Legal Awards, visit <a href="https://www.event.law.com/asialegalawards/shortlist" target="_blank">this link</a>.

Morrison & Foerster Secures Seven Shortlist Nominations in Six Categories in ALM’s Asia Legal Awards 2019

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Dale Caldwell is a partner in the firm’s Finance Department. His practice focuses on a broad variety of sophisticated financing transactions, including: project finance, in which he represents lenders, project sponsors and construction contractors in connection with development and financing of infrastructure projects around the world; and LBO/MBO and other acquisition finance, in which he regularly represents lenders and both strategic and financial buyers. Dale also has substantial experience advising companies on cross-border M&A, joint venture and strategic alliance transactions. Dale previously served as the co-chair of the firm’s Global Finance Department.

Dale E. Caldwell

Partner

Marcia’s practice focuses on private equity transactions and complex mergers and acquisitions involving companies, real estate, and other assets located in Asia. Having practiced in Asia for more than a quarter of a century, Marcia is one of the most experienced M&A lawyers active in the Asian market. In the past three years, she has advised clients on deals with a total aggregate value well in excess of US$265 billion.​Marcia regularly advises leading investors on M&A transactions, including SoftBank Vision Fund, Alibaba, GLP, Bain Capital Credit, BlackRock, Farallon Capital, Ascendent Capital Partners, Silver Crest Acquisition Corp., Macquarie Asset Management, Hillhouse, Hony Capital, and Celadon Partners. In addition, she is experienced in representing U.S., UK and Asia based institutional investors in the acquisition, financing and disposition of real estate in China, Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia, including numerous logistics and internet data center projects, and investment in and acquisition of real estate developers.From 2008 through 2011, she was the Chief Legal Officer for Asia of D. E. Shaw, where she assisted various group entities in making, restructuring, and exiting investments in various countries in Asia, including a number of significant and highly structured investments in China and India.Clients consider Marcia as a "super skilled technical lawyer" who offers "incredible problem-solving skills on all aspects of matters, both legal and commercial". A client said that "Finding a lawyer whose judgement you trust and who knows how far they can push the boundaries is not easy, and Marcia is the best lawyer I've worked with."Marcia is the Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity Practice, a member of our global board of directors, and a member of our global Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Steering Committee. She has also been named to Law360’s 2022 and 2023 Private Equity Editorial Board and elected as the Co-Chair of AmCham Hong Kong’s Women of Influence Committee.

Marcia Ellis（艾琳）律师的执业重点是涉及亚洲境内公司、房地产和其它资产的私募股权交易和复杂并购。Ellis律师在亚洲执业超过二十五年，是活跃在亚洲市场经验最丰富的并购律师之一。在过去三年间，她为客户完成的交易的合计价值超过2650亿美元。Ellis律师经常为大型投资者提供并购交易法律咨询，这些投资者包括软银愿景基金、阿里巴巴、普洛斯、Bain Capital Credit、贝莱德、Farallon Capital、上达资本、Silver Crest特殊目的收购公司、麦格理资产管理公司、高瓴资本、弘毅投资以及Celadon Partners。此外，在代表美国、英国、亚洲机构投资人方面她也富有经验；她代表客户处理收购、融资、处置中国、香港及亚洲其它地区的房地产，其中包括许多物流和互联网数据中心项目，也处理对房地产开发商的投资与收购。从2008至2011年，Ellis律师是德劭集团亚洲区的首席法务官。在德劭集团，她协助各集团实体处理在亚洲多个国家进行的投资、投资重组及投资退出事宜，包括在中国和印度进行的多个重要及高度结构化的投资。客户评价Ellis律师是一位"技巧高超的律师"，她拥有 "极其出色的解决问题的能力，包括法律问题和商业问题 "。一位客户称："找到一位拥有令人信任的判断力，并能尽力突破极限的律师并不容易，而她是我合作过的最好的律师"。Ellis律师是美富律师事务所的全球私募股权业务联席主席，本所全球董事会成员，兼本所环境、社会与治理（ESG）指导委员会委员之一。她还当选《法律360》（Law 360）2022年度和2023年度私募股权业务编辑委员会成员，以及香港美国商会最具影响力女性（WOI）指导委员会联席主席。

Marcia Ellis

Global Co-Chair of Private Equity Practice

Eric is a highly accomplished practitioner with more than 25 years of experience in guiding clients through all stages of the real estate investment cycle, including fund formation and restructuring, real estate financing, strategic M&A, private equity and multi-investor club deals, development, dispositions, and exits.He has represented companies in all major real estate asset classes – particularly hotel/resort and industrial properties – worldwide, including the United States, Japan, China, India, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, and Hong Kong.Eric serves as a firm-wide Managing Partner, Asia Managing Partner, and heads MoFo’s market-leading Asia Real Estate practice.He spent 10 years in Morrison Foerster’s Tokyo office where he was consistently recognized as one of the leading U.S. real estate attorneys in Japan by Chambers Asia Pacific and an elite “Leading Lawyer” by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Eric was also recognized in the 2018 edition of Chambers Global for his work in Singapore and Japan for Investment Funds. He has also been recognized for Real Estate law in Singapore by Best Lawyers since 2009.Eric inspires confidence and loyalty in his clients who describe him as “a top-level lawyer” who is “very strong,” “intelligent and able to absorb a great deal of information quickly.”  “He’s a great resource – I can call him at any time and he’s got all the knowledge.”Eric lived in Japan for 15 years and is proficient in spoken and written Japanese.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>GLP Pte. Ltd. in its US$11.64 billion privatization, the largest-ever private equity buyout of an Asian company by enterprise value. (ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2018: M&A Deal of the Year (Premium); The Asia Legal Awards 2018: M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia 2017 Global PERE Awards: Deal of the Year, Asia; FinanceAsia’s 2017 Deal of the Year and Best Leveraged Finance Deal).</li><li>IndoSpace on the formation of IndoSpace Core, its US$1.2 billion joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board that will focus on acquiring and developing logistics facilities in India.</li><li>GLP on the acquisition of a US$4.55 billion U.S. logistics portfolio from Industrial Income Trust making it the second-largest logistics property owner and operator in the United States within a year of market entry.</li><li>GLP on the establishment of CLF II, US$7 billion infrastructure fund, the largest logistics infrastructure fund based in China. CLF II is more than double the size of US$3 billion CLF I, the world’s largest China-focused logistics fund to date in 2014. We also represented GLP in the formation of CLF I.</li><li>Host Hotels & Resorts in connection with its hotel acquisition and development work in Asia, including projects in India and Australia.</li><li>ING Real Estate Investment Management in connection with its assumption of management and control of New City Corporation’s US$772,000,000 pan-Asia real estate fund (Japan, China, and Korea).</li></ul>

Eric J. Piesner

Managing Partner, Asia

Ken is managing partner of the Tokyo office and head of the office’s 50 lawyer M&A team. His practice focuses on the representation of high-technology companies in acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.Ken is consistently ranked as one of the leading U.S. lawyers in Japan. Among other notable accomplishments, he is the only lawyer to be ranked as a “Star Individual” for M&A in Japan (the level above Band 1) by Chambers Global for thirteen consecutive years (2011 - 2023 editions); he was also ranked in the Band 1 category for the prior decade.Ken has spent his entire career with MoFo and has practiced in Japan for over 25 years, serving as our Tokyo managing partner for the last 20 years.Ken has appeared on CNBC and PBS’s Nightly Business Report in their coverage of Japanese legal developments, as well as on the cover of The American Lawyer in its survey of global law firms. He was also recognized by The American Lawyer as “Dealmaker of the Week” for his work on SoftBank’s $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint, a transaction that was named the Global M&A Deal of the Year by The American Lawyer and also for his work on Hitachi’s $5 billion sale of its hard disk drive business to Western Digital.Ken was recently named by The Financial Times as the Most Innovative Legal Practitioner in the Asia-Pacific region as part of its Innovative Lawyers 2022 Awards. The award recognizes the region’s leading legal innovator including those with a major influence on their firm, the legal industry, business, and wider society.<h4>Select Rankings</h4>Ken’s recent notable awards include:<ul><li>Star Individual for Japan: Corporate/M&A (Chambers Global 2023)</li><li>Star Individual for Japan: Corporate/M&A (Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023)</li><li>Hall of Fame for Japan: Corporate and M&A (The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023)</li><li>Market Leader for Japan: M&A (IFLR1000 2020)</li><li>Corporate, M&A Law, Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law [The Best Lawyers in Japan (Recognized since 2009)]</li><li>Foreign Lawyer of the Year (Asian Legal Business (ALB) Japan Law Awards 2018)</li><li>Tokyo Managing Partner of the Year (Asian Legal Business (ALB) Japan Law Awards 2017)</li></ul>

Kenneth A. Siegel

Masahiro is the Managing Partner of Morrison Foerster Law Offices. He advises clients on a range of matters in various sectors, including:<ul><li>Real estate finance</li><li>Fund formation and private equity</li><li>Project finance for renewable energy projects</li><li>Banking and financial institutions</li><li>Workouts and restructurings</li><li>Distressed acquisitions and financing</li><li>Real estate investment trusts</li></ul>Over the past 20 years, Masahiro has advised on the purchase of more than ¥1.5 trillion ($16 billion) in Japanese real estate and represented lenders in more than ¥1 trillion ($1.1 billion) in issued bonds and securitized loans. He handles transactions across all major property types, including commercial, professional, industrial, and hospitality.Masahiro also represents major commercial lenders, investors, and investment banks in cross-border transactions. He has worked with leading banks, as well as with foreign borrowers and investors. He has advised private real estate firms, and counseled some of the biggest sovereign wealth funds in Asia, in their real estate transactions.Masahiro is a bengoshi registered in Japan and graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan in 1996.

Masahiro Shiga

<div class="videoWrapper"><iframe class="sticky-video" title="Meet Louise Stoupe, Commercial Litigation and Trial Group Co-Chair" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Oj7F_tmcPb0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="1" title="iframe"></iframe></div>Louise Stoupe is co-head of the Tokyo Litigation department. Her practice focuses on high-tech disputes in international arbitration and litigation. She is an experienced trial lawyer, known for representing some of the largest technology companies in the world, in their multijurisdictional and complex commercial litigation cases.Louise has been recognized for her cutting-edge work for Japanese clients and was recognized as the Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year and the Woman Lawyer of the Year by Asian Legal Business in 2018. Louise is ranked in the current editions of Chambers Global (2023) and Chambers Asia Pacific (2023) for Dispute Resolution. She is also ranked as a Leading Individual in Dispute Resolution by the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Louise has been recognized by the Japan edition of Best Lawyers for Intellectual Property since the 2010 edition, for Litigation since the 2014 edition, and for International Arbitration since the 2020 edition. She was also recognized by the 2017 Client Choice Awards in the litigation category. Louise has long been identified as a leader in her field, exhibited by the fact that in 2008 she was the second youngest person on the “Top 50 Under 45” list published by IP Law & Business.