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Susan Mac Cormac is a partner in the Corporate Group of Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office. She currently serves as a co-chair of the Venture Capital/ Emerging Companies Group and the Cleantech Group for the firm worldwide.

Ms. Mac Cormac has extensive experience representing start-up to late-stage private companies primarily in the Cleantech or Sustainable space. She provides corporate and finance advice in connection with mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, reorganizations, joint ventures, and equity and debt financings. She regularly advises boards of private and public companies, special committees, and CEOs on corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) issues and has joined the faculty (teaching on issues of sustainability and corporate governance) at both the Stanford Director’s College and the Northwestern Corporate Counsel Institute. Ms. Mac Cormac also represents nonprofit corporations involved with Sustainability and CSR, providing advice to their boards on fiduciary issues, conflicts of interest, and other corporate matters.

Ms. Mac Cormac’s representative Cleantech clients include Advanced Refining Concepts, Altra Biofuels, Agile Waves, Arcadia, Biosignal, Carbonetworks, driptech, ElectraTherm, Photon Energy Systems, MicroMidas and Veristeel. Her representative sustainable and social enterprise company clients include Divinely D’lish/18 Rabbits, MicroEnergy Credit Corporation, Resdida, Revolution Foods, and Small Potatoes Urban Delivery. Her nonprofit clients include the Biomimicry Institute, Business for Social Responsibility, Goodwill, Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council and RSF Social Finance. Her venture fund clients include Darwin Venture Fund-of-Funds, Pacific Community Ventures and RSF Social Finance.

After working in New York for three years, Ms. Mac Cormac joined the firm as an associate in 1997 and became a partner in 2001. Ms. Mac Cormac was born in Davidson, North Carolina, and graduated in 1988 from Williams College with a degree in Political Economy. She received her J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Duke University School of Law in 1993. Ms. Mac Cormac lives in the Presidio National Park with her husband and two young boys (Eddie and Alex).

Ms. Mac Cormac was recognized by clients in Legal 500 United States 2009® for her expertise working with venture capitalists and emerging companies. Clients say “you cannot get a better corporate counsel,” Ms. Mac Cormac “‘understands the big picture, could not be more responsive, and understands the business.” Ms. Mac Cormac is a co-chair of the Clean Technology & Climate Change Committee for the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law. She is admitted to practice in both California and New York.