Morrison Foerster Highly Rated Across IFLR1000’s Annual Financial and Corporate Rankings in 2024

Morrison Foerster received 55 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:

• Japan: Capital Markets: Structured finance and securitization
• United States: CFIUS

MoFo lawyers achieved 64 individual recognitions, with 4 new individual rankings added this year.

Brian Bates and Henry Fields were named as Expert Consultants for UK: Capital Markets: Debt and USA: Financial Services Regulatory, respectively, while Kenneth Siegel was listed again this year as a Market Leader for Japan: M&A. Marcia Ellis, Nozomi Oda, Serena Tan and Keiko Yamazaki were recognized as Women Leaders in Hong Kong and Japan across the Private Equity, M&A, Private Equity Funds, and Banking categories.

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: M&A; Private equity

• Thomas Chou – Hong Kong SAR: M&A; Private equity

• Keiko Yamazaki – Japan: Banking

• Dale Caldwell – Japan: Banking; M&A; Project finance

• Michael Graffagna – Japan: Banking; Project development; Project finance

• Reiko Omachi – Japan: Capital markets

• Mitsutoshi Uchida – Japan: Capital markets: Debt

• Gary Smith – Japan: M&A

• Hisateru Goda – Japan: M&A

• Jeremy White – Japan: M&A

• Nozomi Oda – Japan: M&A

• Randy Laxer – Japan: M&A; Private equity

• Stan Yukevich – Japan: M&A; Private equity

• Yemi Tépé – Singapore: Banking & finance

• Tabitha Saw – Singapore: M&A

• Eric Piesner – Singapore: M&A; Private equity; Real estate acquisitions

• Jeremy Hunt – UK: M&A

• Jonathan Wheeler – UK: Restructuring and 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

• Barbara Mendelson – USA: Financial services regulatory

• Brandon Parris – USA: M&A

• Spencer Klein – USA: M&A

• Aly El Hamamsy – USA: M&A; Private equity

• Susan Mac Cormac – USA: M&A; Private equity; Private equity funds

• Jennifer Marines – USA: Restructuring and insolvency

• Lorenzo Marinuzzi – USA: Restructuring and insolvency

16 MoFo lawyers were named as “Notable practitioners,” including:

• Steven Tran – Hong Kong SAR: Private equity

• Yukitoshi Uwatoko – Japan: Investment funds

• Masato Hayakawa –Japan: M&A

• Rika Saeki – Japan: M&A

• Edwin Borrini – UK: Banking; Real estate finance

• Andrew Boyd – UK: M&A; Private equity

• Gary Brown – UK: M&A; Private equity

• David Slotkin – USA: Capital markets: Debt; Capital markets: Equity

• John Owen – USA, Singapore: Capital markets: Debt; Capital markets: Equity

• Chrys Carey – USA: Capital markets: Derivatives; Capital markets: Equity

• Alfredo Silva – USA: Capital markets: Equity

• Andrew Campbell – USA: Capital markets: Equity

• Lauren Bellerjeau – USA: M&A

• Mitchell Presser – USA: M&A

• Omar Pringle – USA: Private equity

• Philip Levine – USA: Real estate

4 MoFo lawyers were named as “Rising star partners,” including:

• Maureen Ho – China: Private equity

• Yuhki Asano – Japan: Banking

• Jesse Gillespie – Japan: Capital markets

• Per Lindberg – Singapore: Project development

4 MoFo lawyers were named as “Rising stars,” including:

• Ferdinand Loo – Hong Kong SAR: M&A

• Nicholas Sheets – Hong Kong SAR: Private Equity Funds

• Elaine Zhou – Singapore: Banking & finance

• Emily Beers – USA: Capital markets: Debt

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.