Morrison Foerster has received six nominations as part of the 2022, Asian Legal Business (ALB) Hong Kong Law Awards.
Hong Kong partner, and global chair of the Private Equity Group, Marcia Ellis, has once again been shortlisted for Dealmaker of the Year. This is the fifth time in a row that Marcia has been nominated for Dealmaker of the Year, an honor that she won in 2018. Marcia was recently named to Law360’s 2022 Private Equity Editorial Board, and under her leadership, the MoFo Private Equity Group has for the first time ever been named 2021 Private Equity Group of the Year by Law360.
Under the firm categories, MoFo has been nominated for five Firm of the Year awards, which placed us among the top law firms with the most Firm of the Year nominations. Our nominations include:
Since 2018, our Investment Funds team led by Serena Tan, Hong Kong Partner and Deputy Co‑Chair of the firm’s Private Funds Group, has been nominated four times as “Investment Funds Law Firm of the Year.” Similarly, our Band 1 TMT team, led by partner Gordon Milner and Chuan Sun, has been shortlisted four times as “Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law Firm of the Year.” The 2022 shortlist also marks our debut in the “Regulation and Investigations Law Firm of the Year” and “Tax and Trusts Law Firm of the Year” categories in the past five years.
Our Regulation and Investigations team in Hong Kong is led by Hong Kong managing partner Timothy Blakely and Partner Chen Zhu, both of whom are recognized as leading investigations practitioners by Who’s Who Legal –Investigations from 2019-2022, demonstrating our depth and strength in investigations in Hong Kong and across the region.
Our tax practice is headed by partner Matthew Lau, and is among the few international law firms with a tax partner on the ground in Asia. Matthew’s expertise in both U.S. and international tax, with a focus on China, Hong Kong, Japan, and other countries in Asia, allows him to handle all tax-related issues in the Asia time zone.
MoFo is a leading international real estate firm in Asia. Since 2016, we have advised on more than 150 significant real estate transactions in Asia with a total deal value in excess of $230 Billion. We are known for our experience in guiding clients through all stages of the real estate investment cycle across a broad range of asset classes including data center, logistics, office, retail, and industrial real estate assets. We recently represented Macquarie Asset Management in its investment in Unified Industrial Group, a real estate investment and development platform focused on the industrial and logistics sector in Japan and China.
The ALB Hong Kong Law Awards pay tribute to the outstanding performance of private practitioners and in-house teams in Hong Kong and around the region. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in Hong Kong, on September 9, 2022.
More information about the ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2022, is available on the Asian Legal Business website.
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