Morrison Foerster

Morrison & Foerster is an international law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers across 16 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The firm serves dynamic technology and life sciences companies, financial institutions, consumer product companies, and other market leaders, advising on major cross-border transactions and complex disputes. Established in 1980, the London office provides access to UK- and US-qualified lawyers with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities, taxation and restructuring, technology and intellectual property, commercial transactions, capital markets, employment and privacy law, real estate, white-collar investigations, regulatory matters, litigation, and dispute resolution. The firm maintains a longstanding commitment to pro bono work, diversity, and social justice.

The London team advises on national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including financing, due diligence, and regulatory issues, with particular strength in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector. Its tax practice offers guidance on mergers and acquisitions, cross-border financing structures, capital markets transactions, intellectual property planning, transfer pricing, outsourcing, employee equity participation, executive compensation, and VAT and stamp duty matters. The technology transactions group represents technology providers and technology-enabled enterprises in licensing, strategic partnering, outsourcing, e-commerce, new media, regulatory, contractual, and collaboration matters, and is noted for its market-leading outsourcing practice.

The firm’s litigators handle complex domestic and international disputes, including fraud and asset tracing, trust litigation, insolvency, regulatory compliance, corporate investigations, capital markets lawsuits, post-M&A disputes, and commercial litigation. Employment lawyers provide comprehensive advice on UK and international employment law, including multijurisdictional corporate change, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, and dispute management. The white-collar and investigations team manages cross-border financial crime, corruption, bribery, sanctions, and money-laundering investigations, including high-stakes matters before the Financial Conduct Authority and the Serious Fraud Office.

Morrison & Foerster’s finance practice spans debt capital markets, private placements, financial services regulation, and senior and secured lending across asset types. Its capital markets team advises investment banks, issuers, and investors on national and international offerings, initial public offerings, private placements, equity- and debt-linked instruments, bonds, structured products, and securities trading. The business restructuring and insolvency group handles financial institution restructurings, cross-border insolvencies, distressed real estate, intellectual property-related insolvencies, and hedge fund failures.

The firm’s equity derivatives practice covers derivatives and structured products for corporate finance, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions, including equity-backed capital markets transactions, margin loans, and convertible bond hedging. The high-yield team advises on cross-border corporate and private equity finance, high-yield and crossover debt offerings, acquisition financings, and liability management, representing both issuers and investment banks. The real estate team advises investment banks, private equity funds, institutional investors, and advisors on a broad range of UK and European real estate transactions, providing pragmatic solutions informed by extensive market experience.