Morrison Foerster Wins Two Awards at the 2022 Asia Legal Awards
Morrison Foerster Wins Two Awards at the 2022 Asia Legal Awards
Morrison Foerster was recognized with two awards at the 2022 Asia Legal Awards, presented by Law.com International. The Asia Legal Awards celebrate the most complex and outstanding legal work in the region.
Morrison Foerster was awarded:
Morrison Foerster was named TMT Firm of the Year due to its involvement in market-shaping technology deals in 2021. The deals include advising Amperex Technology Limited on its joint ventures for mid-size battery cells and packs and technology cross‑license arrangement with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, led by Chuan Sun, Randy Laxer and Masato Hayakawa; advising SoftBank on the proposed US$65 billion sale of Arm Limited to NVIDIA, led by Ken Siegel, Eric McCrath, and Gary Brown; and advising Tencent as an investor in a US$2.2 billion equity raise by Rakuten, led by Nozomi Oda and Randy Laxer.
Other key members of MoFo‘s renowned Asia TMT team includes Thomas Chou, Seth Graham, Paul McKenzie, Gordon Milner, and Yukihiro Terazawa, based in all key jurisdictions across the Asia Pacific region, including Japan, China (including Hong Kong), and Singapore.
MoFo was awarded the M&A Deal of the Year: South and South East Asia for its role in Grab’s record breaking SPAC merger with special purpose acquisition company Altimeter Growth Corp, which is the largest U.S. equity listing by a Southeast Asian company to date. The deal closed in December 2021. MoFo Corporate partners Shirin Tang and Ruomu Li advised a leading institutional investor in Grab on the transaction.
In addition, Marcia Ellis was shortlisted in the Private Equity Lawyer of the Year category. Marcia Ellis is the Hong Kong based global chair of MoFo’s Private Equity Group and focuses her practice on private equity transactions and complex mergers and acquisitions involving companies, real estate, and other assets located in Asia. Marcia was also recently named to Law360’s 2022 Private Equity Editorial Board and under her leadership the MoFo Private Equity Group has for the first time been named Private Equity Group of the Year by Law360.
As one of the preeminent law firms in Asia, Morrison Foerster provides integrated local and U.S. law advice. The Tokyo office is now the largest office in Japan of any global firm and one of the largest law firms in Japan, domestic or international. With offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, the firm also has a strong presence in China, handling major matters in the region for nearly 40 years. The Singapore office, which opened in 2013, features lawyers with many years of experience in South and Southeast Asia and has recently been named by The Legal 500 as Law Firm of the Year, 2020 and 2021.
To learn more about the Asia Legal Awards, see the full list of winners.
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