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The Legal 500 Names MoFo 2021 Singapore Law Firm of the Year

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Morrison & Foerster has been named Law Firm of the Year, Singapore by The Legal 500 in its inaugural Southeast Asia Law Awards for 2020 and 2021.

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Morrison & Foerster has been named Law Firm of the Year, Singapore by The Legal 500 in its inaugural Southeast Asia Law Awards for 2020 and 2021.Shirin Tang, Managing Partner of Morrison & Foerster in Singapore commented, “We are thrilled to receive this recognition from The Legal 500 for our notable achievements over the past two years. These include the quality and ground-breaking nature of our work, our impressive strategic growth, and our excellence in client service across all of our practices in Singapore, frequently working in collaboration with our offices across Asia and worldwide. This award will be incredibly uplifting for everyone in our Singapore office, all of whom have shown extraordinary resilience and commitment to excellence over these last two, truly challenging, years.”As noted in the 2021 edition of The Legal 500 and other leading legal directories, Morrison & Foerster Singapore has been recognized for having:<ul><li>One of the most deeply experienced and established disputes, compliance and investigations practices amongst the international firms in Singapore that stands out for its local insights, as well as its Japan-related experience.  </li><li>Impressive handling of headline corporate transactions, including merger & acquisitions, joint ventures, fund formation, and restructuring. </li><li>Unparalleled depth of experience in warranty and indemnity insurance in M&A transactions in Asia involving both contentious and non-contentious issues. </li><li>Wide experience across the region in acquisitions and leveraged, private equity, real estate, and project financing, with a particular niche in subscription line financing, acting for both borrowers and lenders, including corporates, private equity houses, and global banks. </li><li>An exceptional TMT team that blends expertise from around the globe in a unique Asia package in TMT-related M&A transactions, venture capital investments, and technology-driven innovations in the fintech space.  </li></ul>Morrison & Foerster Singapore has also been recognized by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021, for being “prominent in the Singapore market, with an especially strong roster of clients in the financial services, technology and real estate sectors” and for its “prowess in handling high-end and cross-border transactions and disputes and its leading local and international expertise across multiple practice areas.”View a <a href="https://www.legal500.com/events/the-legal-500-awards-southeast-asia/" target="_blank">full list of the winners</a> for The Legal 500 Southeast Asia Awards 2020 and 2021, or learn more about our Singapore capabilities, below.<iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ygsYjTWdnbg?rel=0" title="Video: MoFo in Singapore" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="1" title="iframe"></iframe>

The Legal 500 Names MoFo 2021 Singapore Law Firm of the Year

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﻿Dan Levison is a partner at Morrison Foerster and co-Managing Partner of the Singapore office. He also heads its Litigation Department and leads the firm’s Ethics and Compliance regional practice in Asia. Dan counsels clients regarding compliance matters and conducts internal investigations and compliance reviews across the Asia-Pacific region, where he has over 24 years of experience. His practice has included work in many countries in Southeast Asia and beyond, including Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Singapore.Clients say that Dan is “a highly skilled lawyer who specializes in managing large, complex internal investigations” and “very thoughtful and thorough, and extremely focused on giving high-quality advice across a broad range of issues.” Clients rely on his experience with highly sensitive and complex cross‑border matters, which have included fraud and corruption, cartel, and other competition matters, anti-money laundering, economic sanctions and export control, privacy and data security, and regulatory and product safety investigations. In addition, he assists clients with pre‑acquisition and third-party compliance due diligence and developing, reviewing, and implementing compliance policies, procedures, and training programs.Dan also focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration matters, with particular emphasis on the resolution of multi-jurisdictional disputes and has developed particular expertise regarding cross‑border electronic discovery matters. He has counselled clients in a range of matters involving contract disputes, business torts, antitrust, product liability, intellectual property, and other issues. Dan has represented clients in a variety of industries, including electronics and manufacturing, software, consulting and professional services, consumer goods, electronic commerce, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, sports and entertainment, transportation, construction and real estate, hospitality, insurance, and banking and financial services, among others. Dan is also a member of the firm’s COVID‑19 Task Force.Before moving to Singapore, Dan spent more than 12 years in MoFo’s Tokyo office, and clients continue to rely on him for his Japan-related expertise, for which he has been recognized by Chambers Global 2020, 2021, and 2022.Dan has been listed by Chambers Asia-Pacific every year for the last six years as a top practitioner (Band 1) in his field for Corporate Investigations/Anti-corruption. He is recognized as a leading individual for white-collar crime by Legal 500 Asia-Pacific from 2021 - 2024, and is listed as a litigation star by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific. Dan has also been recommended as a global leader in Investigations in Singapore by Who’s Who Legal/Global Investigations Review every year since 2019.Dan is also a sought–after speaker and thought leader on anti–corruption, investigations, and compliance‑related topics.In addition to his practice, Dan serves on the firm’s Board of Directors and on its Diversity Strategy Committee, and plays a leadership role in some of the firm’s global diversity initiatives, notably, as a member of the Board of Directors of the firm’s pro bono client, Lawyers for LGBT & Allies Network, and he has been highly commended by Chambers for an Asia-Pacific Diversity & Inclusion Award 2020.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>A multinational company in connection with an internal investigation into allegations of bribery in Indonesia.</li><li>A real estate investment trust in relation to a compliance risk assessment concerning a joint venture in India. </li><li>A U.S.-based company in an investigation into corruption and procurement–related irregularities in India. </li><li>A global technology company in relation to an investigation into allegations of conflicts of interest and accounting irregularities by local management in Southeast Asia.</li><li>Several Asia-based employees of financial institutions in internal and government corruption and money laundering investigations. </li><li>U.S.-based medical device manufacturer in investigation into allegations of bribery and fraud in Japan.</li><li>A multinational pharmaceutical company in investigations into allegations of irregularities in the conduct of clinical trials in Japan.</li><li>A U.S.-based company with respect to several Japan Fair Trade Commission investigations.</li><li>Providing a global financial institution with anti-corruption counselling with respect to its global private equity and venture capital investments.</li><li>Conducted pre-investment and pre-acquisition anti-corruption and compliance due diligence for U.S., Europe, and Asia-based multinational companies in numerous transactions across the Asia‑Pacific region and beyond. </li></ul>

Daniel Levison

Managing Partner, Singapore

Eric is a highly accomplished practitioner with more than 25 years of experience in guiding clients through all stages of the real estate investment cycle, including fund formation and restructuring, real estate financing, strategic M&A, private equity and multi-investor club deals, development, dispositions, and exits.He has represented companies in all major real estate asset classes – particularly hotel/resort and industrial properties – worldwide, including the United States, Japan, China, India, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, and Hong Kong.Eric serves as a firm-wide Managing Partner and heads MoFo’s market-leading Asia Real Estate practice.He spent 10 years in Morrison Foerster’s Tokyo office where he was consistently recognized as one of the leading U.S. real estate attorneys in Japan by Chambers Asia Pacific and an elite “Leading Lawyer” by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Eric was also recognized in the 2018 edition of Chambers Global for his work in Singapore and Japan for Investment Funds. He has also been recognized for Real Estate law in Singapore by Best Lawyers since 2009.Eric inspires confidence and loyalty in his clients who describe him as “a top-level lawyer” who is “very strong,” “intelligent and able to absorb a great deal of information quickly.”  “He’s a great resource – I can call him at any time and he’s got all the knowledge.”Eric lived in Japan for 15 years and is proficient in spoken and written Japanese.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>GLP Pte. Ltd. in its US$11.64 billion privatization, the largest-ever private equity buyout of an Asian company by enterprise value. (ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2018: M&A Deal of the Year (Premium); The Asia Legal Awards 2018: M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia 2017 Global PERE Awards: Deal of the Year, Asia; FinanceAsia’s 2017 Deal of the Year and Best Leveraged Finance Deal).</li><li>IndoSpace on the formation of IndoSpace Core, its US$1.2 billion joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board that will focus on acquiring and developing logistics facilities in India.</li><li>GLP on the acquisition of a US$4.55 billion U.S. logistics portfolio from Industrial Income Trust making it the second-largest logistics property owner and operator in the United States within a year of market entry.</li><li>GLP on the establishment of CLF II, US$7 billion infrastructure fund, the largest logistics infrastructure fund based in China. CLF II is more than double the size of US$3 billion CLF I, the world’s largest China-focused logistics fund to date in 2014. We also represented GLP in the formation of CLF I.</li><li>Host Hotels & Resorts in connection with its hotel acquisition and development work in Asia, including projects in India and Australia.</li><li>ING Real Estate Investment Management in connection with its assumption of management and control of New City Corporation’s US$772,000,000 pan-Asia real estate fund (Japan, China, and Korea).</li></ul>

Eric Piesner

Partner

Yemi Tépé is Global Co-Chair of the Finance Group of Morrison Foerster. With more than 24 years advising clients on the full spectrum of event-driven financings and private equity buyouts, she has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border acquisition and leveraged finance, public to private takeovers, real estate finance, debt structuring and restructuring, margin loans, syndicated lending and subscription line financing.Her clients include leading international banks and financial institutions, private equity sponsors, multinational corporations, alternative financiers such as credit funds, hedge funds and asset managers and emerging growth, mid-cap, and large public and privately held companies.Yemi also sits on MoFo’s Board of Directors, Global Diversity Strategy Committee, ESG Steering Committee and Pro Bono Committee.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>GLP China Logistics Fund I and its affiliates in the $5 billion recapitalization and exit of the portfolio developed within the fund, which was GLP’s flagship USD-denominated develop-to-core fund formed in 2013 to invest in prime, institutional-grade modern logistics assets in China.</li></ul><ul><li>The senior lenders on the acquisition financing to CVC Capital Partners for the acquisition of TRY Group, the largest one-to-one tutoring services provider in Japan.</li></ul><ul><li>GLP Pte. Ltd. in relation to subscription line facilities for GLP Japan Development Partners IV (JDP IV), which will have USD9.1 billion in assets under management when fully deployed, one of the largest-ever Japan-focused private real estate funds.</li><li>GLP Pte. Ltd. on a USD658 million sustainability linked syndicated loan facility.</li><li>The mezzanine lenders on the acquisition financing to CVC Capital Partners for the USD1.5 billion acquisition of Shiseido's personal care business.</li><li>The mezzanine lenders on Bain Capital’s approximately USD380 million acquisition of Kirindo, a Japanese pharmacy chain store operator. </li><li>SoftBank Group Corporation in connection with senior and mezzanine acquisition facilities for OYO’s acquisition of Netherlands-based @Leisure. </li><li>PA Chokmah Investment Limited (wholly owned by Ping An Overseas Holdings), as lender in relation to a HKD500 million convertible loan to Wisdom Education International Holdings Company Limited, a Hong Kong listco, principally engaged in operating premium primary and secondary schools in China.</li><li>BlackRock in relation to offshore and onshore acquisition financing in its acquisition of two blocks of grade-A office buildings in Changning, Shanghai from PGIM Real Estate, a property investment affiliate of Prudential Financial.</li><li>MUFG Bank, Ltd. as mandated lead arranger and underwriter of acquisition facilities for two strategic acquisitions aggregating close to USD1billion by Siam City Cement Public Company Limited, a listco on the Stock Exchange of Thailand and Thailand’s second largest cement producer, from LafargeHolcim Ltd.</li><li>Various lenders and private equity funds in relation to capital call/subscription facilities, fund financings and borrowing base facilities.</li></ul>

Yemi Tépé

Southeast Asia