Morrison Foerster received 52 practice area rankings across China, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The guide uses in-depth market analysis and interviews with practitioners and clients to recognize the leading corporate law firms and lawyers impacting the business of law around the world.
The firm secured three new practice area rankings in the most recent edition, including:
- Hong Kong SAR: Real Estate Funds
- United Kingdom: Capital Markets: High Yield
- United States – California: Real Estate
63 MoFo lawyers were named in the rankings, with 10 lawyerss newly added this year. Akihiro Wani was named an Expert Consultant for Banking and Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitization, while Kenneth Siegel and Christopher Kandel were named Market Leaders for Japan: M&A and UK: Banking and Financial Restructuring.
36 MoFo lawyers named as “Highly regarded” lawyers, including:
- Paul McKenzie – China: M&A
- Chuan Sun – China: Private Equity
- Ruomu Li – China: Private Equity; M&A
- Christoph Wagner – Germany: M&A
- Vivian Yiu – Hong Kong SAR: Capital Markets: Equity; M&A
- Serena Tan – Hong Kong SAR: Private Equity Funds
- Thomas Chou – Hong Kong SAR: Private Equity; M&A
- Marcia Ellis – Hong Kong SAR: Private Equity; M&A
- Dale Caldwell – Japan: Banking; Project Finance; M&A
- Michael Graffagna – Japan: Banking; Project Finance; Project Development
- Fuyuo Mitomi – Japan: Capital Markets: Debt
- Gary Smith – Japan: M&A
- Jeremy White – Japan: M&A
- Keiko Yamazaki – Japan: M&A; Real Estate Finance
- Randy Laxer – Japan: Private Equity; M&A
- Stanley Yukevich – Japan: Private Equity; M&A
- Yuhki Asano – Japan: Project Development; Project Finance
- Yemi Tépé – Singapore: Banking & Finance
- Eric Piesner – Singapore: Private Equity; M&A; Real Estate Acquisitions
- Jon Ornolfsson – Singapore: Project Development
- Brian Bates – UK: Capital Markets: Debt
- Vladimir Maly – UK: Capital Markets: Derivatives; Financial Services Regulatory
- Jonathan Wheeler – UK: Restructuring & Insolvency
- Scott Ashton – UK, USA: Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity; M&A
- Jill Feldman – USA: Banking
- Justin Salon – USA: Capital Markets : Debt
- Scott Lesmes – USA: Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity
- David Kaufman – USA: Capital Markets: Derivatives; Capital Markets: Equity
- Alfredo Silva – USA: Capital Markets: Equity
- Barbara Mendelson – USA: Financial Services Regulatory
- Spencer Klein – USA: M&A
- Brandon Parris – USA: M&A
- Frederick Jenney – USA: Project Finance
- Nicholas Spiliotes – USA: Project Finance
- Jennifer Marines – USA, New York: Restructuring and Insolvency
- Lorenzo Marinuzzi – USA: Restructuring and Insolvency
17 MoFo lawyers were named “Notable Practitioners,” including:
- Amit Kataria – Hong Kong SAR: Private Equity; M&A
- Mitsutoshi Uchida – Japan: Capital Markets: Equity; M&A
- Yukitoshi Uwatoko – Japan: Investment Funds
- Hisateru Goda – Japan: M&A
- Masato Hayakawa – Japan: M&A
- Rika Saeki – Japan: M&A
- Shirin Tang – Singapore: Private Equity; M&A
- Tessa Davis – Singapore: Project Development
- John Owen – Singapore, New York: Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: High Yield; Capital Markets: Equity
- Dan Coppel – UK: M&A
- Andrew Boyd – UK: Private Equity; M&A
- Gary Brown – UK: Private Equity; M&A
- David Slotkin – USA: Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity
- James Schwartz – USA: Capital Markets: Derivatives
- Mitchell Presser – USA: M&A
- Susan Mac Cormac – USA: Private Equity Funds; Private Equity; M&A
- Philip Levine – USA: Real Estate
7 MoFo lawyers named “Rising Star,” including:
- Ke Huang – China: Capital Markets: Equity
- Maureen Ho – China: Private Equity
- Nicholas Sheets – Hong Kong SAR: Private Equity Funds
- Jesse Gillespie – Japan: Capital Markets – Foreign
- Elaine Zhou – Singapore: Banking & Finance
- Emily Beers – USA: Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity; M&A
- Chrys Carey – USA: Capital Markets: Derivatives; Capital Markets: Equity
IFLR1000 has been producing legal market intelligence since 1990 and remains the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work. The guide’s law firm rankings are based on three criteria: transactional evidence, peer feedback, and client feedback.
View the complete list of this year’s rankings.
