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Morrison & Foerster

Morrison & Foerster LLP (also known as MoFo) is an American multinational law firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, with 17 offices located throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe.

Headquarters

425 Market Street
San Francisco

17 (2019)[1]

750 - 1000 (2019)[1]

Mergers and acquisitions, litigation and arbitration, corporate finance, corporate restructuring, securities, banking, project finance, energy and infrastructure, antitrust, tax, intellectual property, life sciences

Eric McCrath (Chair)

$1.15 billion (2020)[2]

$2.05 million (2020)[2]

1883

Alexander Morrison

Limited liability partnership

www.mofo.com

Clients[edit]

The firm was the lead bankruptcy counsel to Residential Capital. ResCap.[24] and secured their chapter 11 plan.[25]


In July 2013, Morrison & Foerster represented SoftBank in its $21.6 billion acquisition of a 78 percent stake in Sprint Nextel.[26] According to The Wall Street Journal, the transaction was "one of the most complex and unusual deals in the annals of takeovers."[27] The firm also represented SoftBank in Alibaba's U.S. IPO—the largest IPO in history.[28]

Morrison & Foerster Foundation[edit]

Formed in 1986, the Morrison & Foerster Foundation is a charitable foundation funded mainly by the firm's partners.[29] In total, the Foundation has donated $44 million to nonprofit organizations since its inception.[30]


In 2015, Law360 recognized Morrison & Foerster as one of the 10 Most Charitable Law Firms.[30]

former assistant to the solicitor general of the U.S. from 1993 until 2001, and who served as a partner until 2009.

Beth Brinkmann

who served as the United States Solicitor General from 1993 to 1996, and who served as of counsel until 2011.

Drew S. Days III

judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York since 2015

LaShann M. DeArcy

Current Justice for the Supreme Court of the United States. Formally judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2013 to 2021, former commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, who served as of counsel until 2013.

Ketanji Brown Jackson

who served as lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Virginia from 2018 to 2022.[31]

Justin Fairfax

Stanford Law School professor and an expert on intellectual property law, currently serves as of counsel.

Paul Goldstein

first U.S. Secretary of Education from 1979 to 1981, who was of counsel.

Shirley Hufstedler

former acting United States Associate Attorney General, who served as a partner until 2009.

Tony West

List of largest law firms by profits per partner

Official website

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Morrison & Foerster companies