Morrison Foerster received 54 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 two new practice area rankings in the most recent edition, including:
- United Kingdom: M&A
- United Kingdom: Private equity
MoFo lawyers achieved 73 individual recognitions, with 14 new individual rankings added this year. Akihiro Wani was named an Expert consultant for Banking and capital markets: Structured finance and securitisation, while Kenneth Siegel and Christopher Kandel were named Market leaders for Japan: M&A and UK: Banking and financial restructuring.
33 MoFo lawyers were named as “Highly regarded” lawyers, including:
- Paul McKenzie – China: M&A
- Chuan Sun – China: Private equity
- Christoph Wagner – Germany: M&A
- Marcia Ellis – Hong Kong SAR: Private equity; M&A
- Serena Tan – Hong Kong SAR: Private equity funds
- Thomas Chou – Hong Kong SAR: Private equity; M&A
- Vivian Yiu – Hong Kong SAR: Capital markets: Equity; M&A
- Dale Caldwell – Japan: Banking; Project finance; M&A
- Fuyuo Mitomi – Japan: Capital markets: Debt
- Gary Smith – Japan: M&A
- Jeremy White – Japan: M&A
- Keiko Yamazaki – Japan: M&A; Real estate finance
- Michael Graffagna – Japan: Banking; Project finance; Project development
- Mitsutoshi Uchida – Japan: Capital markets: Equity; M&A
- Randy Laxer – Japan: Private equity; M&A
- Stan Yukevich – Japan: Private equity; M&A
- Eric Piesner – Singapore: Private equity; M&A; Real estate acquisitions
- Shirin Tang – Singapore: Private equity; M&A
- Yemi Tépé – Singapore: Banking and finance
- Brian Bates – UK: Capital markets: Debt
- Jeremy Hunt – UK: M&A
- Jonathan Wheeler – UK: Restructuring and insolvency
- Scott Ashton – UK, USA: Capital markets: Debt; Capital markets: Equity; M&A
- Barbara Mendelson – USA: Financial services regulatory
- Brandon Parris – USA: M&A
- David Kaufman – USA: Capital markets: Derivatives; Capital markets: Equity
- Frederick Jenney – USA: Project finance
- Jill Feldman – USA: Banking
- Justin Salon – USA: Capital markets: Debt
- Lorenzo Marinuzzi – USA: Restructuring and insolvency
- Scott Lesmes – USA: Capital markets: Debt; Capital markets: Equity
- Spencer Klein – USA: M&A
- Jennifer Marines – USA, New York: Restructuring and insolvency
20 MoFo lawyers were named as “Notable practitioners,” including:
- Hisateru Goda – Japan: M&A
- Masato Hayakawa – Japan: Technology and telecommunications
- Nozomi Oda – Japan: M&A
- Rika Saeki – Japan: M&A
- Yukitoshi Uwatoko – Japan: Investment funds
- Tabitha Saw – Singapore: M&A
- John Owen – Singapore, New York: Capital markets: Debt; Capital markets: High yield; Capital markets: Equity
- Andrew Boyd – UK: Private equity; M&A
- Dan Coppel – UK: M&A
- Gary Brown – UK: Private equity; M&A
- Alfredo Silva – USA: Capital markets: Equity
- Aly El Hamamsy – USA: Capital markets: Equity
- David Slotkin – USA: Capital markets: Debt; Capital markets: Equity
- James Schwartz – USA: Capital markets: Derivatives
- Jay Gavigan – USA: Banking
- Lauren Bellerjeau – USA: M&A
- Mitchell Presser – USA: M&A
- Omar Pringle – USA: Private equity
- Philip Levine – USA: Real estate
- Susan Mac Cormac – USA: Private equity funds; Private equity; M&A
8 MoFo lawyers were named as “Rising star partners,” 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
- Yuhki Asano – Japan: Banking
- Lip Kian Ang – Singapore: M&A
- Per Lindberg – Singapore: Project development
- Andrew Campbell – USA: Capital markets: Equity
4 MoFo lawyers were named as “Rising stars,” including:
- Ferdinand Loo – China: Private equity
- Elaine Zhou – Singapore: Banking & finance
- Chrys Carey – USA: Capital markets: Derivatives; Capital markets: Equity
- Emily Beers – USA: Capital markets: Debt; Capital markets: Equity; M&A
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.