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Law360 covered Morrison Foerster’s addition of seven lawyers to its Emerging Companies and Venture Capital (EVCV) practice in New York. The group is led by partner Peter Fusco, who joins as co‑chair of Morrison Foerster’s ECVC Group alongside Michael Glaser and Jim Krenn. Also joining as partners are Jae Zhou and Frank Paz, along with at least four associates.Jim stated, “The group has a strong tech focus and client base, which have great synergies with our core strengths and present numerous opportunities with other complementary and adjacent practices at the firm.”Read the <a href="https://media2.mofo.com/v3/assets/blt5775cc69c999c255/blt5578d3d5dc72cc4a/676341a9197eca9a39ce31c6/241211-mofo-adds-group-of-7-lawyers-from-goodwin-procter-in-ny.pdf" target="_blank">full article</a>.

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Peter Fusco is a partner in the firm’s New York office and is Co-chair of the firm’s Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Group. He represents venture funds and tech companies throughout their lifecycle, from pre-incorporation planning to angel, seed, and growth rounds to exit transactions.Peter has been representing tech companies for more than two decades in the New York ecosystem and serves as outside general counsel to many startups, growth-stage companies, and venture funds. He also works closely with NYU/Tandon Future Lab’s incubator ecosystem and its related programs.Prior to practicing law, Peter was a rifleman and crew-served weapons instructor in an Infantry unit in the Army Reserve and graduated as the Distinguished Honor Graduate for his class from the United States Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Peter Fusco

Co-Chair of Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Practice

Michael Glaser is a partner in the San Francisco office of Morrison Foerster and is co-chair of the firm’s Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Group.Described as “one of the finest venture capital lawyers I have ever worked with” by a client in Chambers USA, Michael offers more than two decades of experience advising innovative startup and investor clients. Michael represents startups from formation through exit in multiple industries, including consumer e-commerce, interactive entertainment, digital media, consumer products, sharing economy, cloud services, on-prem software, fintech, and digital health sectors.Michael has represented startups in hundreds of venture capital transactions, with pre-money valuations ranging from millions to billions of dollars. Michael’s clients have been funded by top tier venture capital firms, such as Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Benchmark, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Khosla Ventures. Michael also represents his startup clients in M&A deals, and has advised companies in numerous high-value exit transactions with leading serial acquirers.Michael is an industry thought-leader and has served on the Model Document Working Group for the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the Corporate Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, and the ABA Working Group on Legal Opinions. Michael also has significant business management experience. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, he co-chaired another international law firm’s largest practice group, with ten subgroups, over 300 lawyers, and a P&L in the hundreds of millions.<h4>Selected Exit Transactions</h4><ul><li>Represented AddLive in its sale to Snap (NYSE: SNAP).</li><li>Represented Applifier in its sale to Unity Technologies (NYSE: U).</li><li>Represented Candywriter in its sale to Stillfront Group.</li><li>Represented Cloudup in its sale to Automattic.</li><li>Represented CourseRank in a merger with Chegg (NYSE: CHGG).</li><li>Represented Freeverse Inc. in its sale to ngmco.</li><li>Represented GlobalMotion Media Inc. (publisher of EveryTrail.com) in its sale to Trip Advisor (Nasdaq: TRIP).</li><li>Represented Hackpad in its sale to Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX).</li><li>Represented Jambool in a merger transaction with Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG).</li><li>Represented Liquid Audio (Nasdaq:LQID) in its sale of technology assets to Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT).</li><li>Represented PullString in its sale to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL).</li><li>Represented Rupture.com in an acquisition by Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS).</li><li>Represented Snapcentric in its sale to Verisign (Nasdaq:VRSN).</li><li>Represented TenMarks in its sale to Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN).</li><li>Represented Wondery in its sale to Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN).</li></ul>

Michael Glaser

Jim Krenn is a corporate partner and co-chair of the firm’s Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Group. Jim has extensive experience representing private and public companies and investors in significant business transactions from formation through liquidity. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, and emerging company counseling. His clients span a broad range of industries, with a concentration in life science and technology companies.Jim advises clients on private and public acquisitions on both the buy-side and sell-side across numerous transaction structures, including equity purchases, asset purchases, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, cross-border transactions, and auctions. He has represented buyers and sellers in acquisitions and divestitures ranging from the low millions to over $1 billion.Jim counsels emerging and established life sciences and technology companies in equity financings and general corporate matters, and angel, corporate, and venture capital investors in investments in such companies. He has represented clients in hundreds of venture capital financings ranging from seed rounds to $100 million-plus later-stage rounds.In addition, Jim represents public companies in public offerings, other capital markets transactions, and SEC reporting and compliance matters, and advises boards of directors on corporate governance issues.Jim is member of the firm’s Life Sciences + Healthcare Group leadership team and Artificial Intelligence steering committee and serves on the Board of Directors of the San Diego Entrepreneurs Exchange.<h4 dir="ltr">Mergers and Acquisitions</h4><ul dir="ltr"><li dir="ltr">ACEA Biosciences, a medical instruments company, in its sale to Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A) for $250 million.</li><li>Adicet Bio (Nasdaq: ACET), a biopharmaceutical company, in its merger with a wholly owned subsidiary of resTORbio (Nasdaq: TORC) to create a combined publicly traded biotechnology company.</li><li>Alaska Energy & Resources Company, a parent company of a regulated electric utility in Alaska, in its $170 million sale to Avista (NYSE: AVA).</li><li>Astute Medical, a medical diagnostic company, in its $90 million sale to bioMérieux (EPA: BIM).</li><li>B. Riley Financial (Nasdaq: RILY), a diversified financial services company, in its $53 million private placement and merger with investment banking firm B. Riley & Co.</li><li>Biotix, a private equity-backed developer and manufacturer of laboratory consumables and liquid handling solutions, in its sale to Mettler-Toledo (NYSE: MTD).</li><li>California Cryobank, a private equity-backed leader in reproductive tissue donor services and stem cell banking, in multiple acquisitions.</li><li>Clean Energy Fuels (Nasdaq: CLNE), a provider of natural gas as an alternative fuel for vehicle fleets, in its sale for up to $180 million of components of its renewable natural gas business to BP (NYSE: BP).</li><li>Cogent (Nasdaq: COGT), a biometric identification solutions provider, in its $943 million sale to 3M (NYSE: MMM).</li><li>Deere & Company (NYSE: DE), an agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery corporation, in its planned acquisition of the precision planting unit of Monsanto (NYSE: MON).</li><li>Dosatron International, a distributor of water-powered dosing pumps and systems, in connection with its sale to Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR).</li><li>Gillco, a leading specialty ingredient provider, in its sale to Azelis (BR: AZE).</li><li>Mentor (NYSE: MNT), a leading supplier of medical products for the global aesthetic market, in its $1.12 billion sale to Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ).</li><li>Mitchell International, a developer of smart technology solutions, in its acquisition of Cogent Works.</li><li>MyChem, a provider of ultra-pure nucleotides, in connection with its sale to Maravai (NASDAQ: MRVI) for $240 million at closing with potential additional consideration.</li><li>Protomer Technologies, a biotechnology company, in its sale to Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) with a potential value of over $1 billion with successful achievement of future development and commercial milestones.</li><li>Rakuten Medical, a biotechnology and medical device company, in its acquisition of Medlight SA and its acquisition of key assets and manufacturing technology from Li-Cor Biosciences.</li><li>Safebuilt Insurance Services, a managing general agent and insurance technology company, in its sale to Integrated Specialty Coverages.</li><li>Sequlite Genomics, a DNA sequencing firm, in connection with its sale to Fapon Biotech, a diagnostic technology company.</li><li>Tendo, a digital health software company, in its acquisition of MDsave, a healthcare marketplace company.</li><li>Wavestream, a provider of high-power solid-state amplifiers, in its $137 million sale to Spacenet, a subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks (Nasdaq: GILT).</li></ul><h4 dir="ltr">﻿Venture Financings</h4><ul><li dir="ltr">9amHealth, a provider of virtual diabetes care, in its $4 million Series Seed financing and $16 million Series A financing.</li><li>ACEA Biosciences, a developer of cell analysis instrumentation technologies, in its $30 million Series E Preferred Stock financing.</li><li>Adicet Bio, a biopharmaceutical company, in its Series A financing of up to $51 million, and $80 million Series B financing.</li><li>Astute Medical, a medical diagnostic company focused on high-risk medical conditions and diseases, in over $200 million of equity and debt financings.</li><li>Bidra as an investor in multiple equity financings.</li><li>Biolumic, an agtech company, in its $13.5 million Series B financing.</li><li>California Cryobank, a private equity-backed leader in reproductive tissue donor services and stem cell banking, in multiple equity and debt financings.</li><li>Carlsmed, a medical device and artificial intelligence company, in its $10 million Series A financing, $30 million Series B financing and $52.5 million Series C financing.</li><li>Crinetics as a strategic investor in Radionetics Oncology’s $52.5 million Series A financing.</li><li>Forward Ventures as an investor in multiple equity financings, convertible debt financings, and M&A transactions.</li><li>Foxen, a provider of financial technology solutions for the real estate industry, in its $44 million Series A financing.</li><li>Greenoaks Capital Partners and its affiliates as investors in multiple equity financings, debt financings, and secondary transactions.</li><li>GroupSolver, an artificial intelligence market research platform, in multiple preferred stock financings.</li><li>Hume.ai, an artificial intelligence company, in multiple preferred stock financings.</li><li>Oak Investment Partners as an investor in multiple preferred stock financings.</li><li>OrbiMed as an investor in multiple equity financings, debt financings, and M&A transactions.</li><li>Petuum, an artificial intelligence and machine learning software infrastructure provider, in its $93 million Series B financing.</li><li>Pi Health, an AI-enabled health technology and clinical research company, in its spin-out from BeiGene, Ltd. and $35 million Series A financing.</li><li>RA Capital as an investor in multiple equity financings.</li><li>Rakuten Medical, a biotechnology and medical device company, in over $730 million of debt and equity financings.</li><li>Softbank affiliates as investors in multiple equity financings.</li><li>Solarflare Communications, a software and hardware company, in over $200 million of equity and debt financings.</li><li>VoloAgri, an agriculture technology company focused on seed genetics, in over $150 million of equity financings.</li><li>Western Digital Capital as an investor in multiple preferred stock financings.</li></ul>

Jim Krenn

Jae Zou is a partner in the Emerging Companies + Venture Capital practice. She advises emerging technology companies in all stages of the startup lifecycle, from formation to exit, and provides strategic advice to founders and investors in connection with complex transactions and other corporate issues.Jae was born in Shanghai and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Jae Zhou

Partner

Frank Paz is a partner in the Emerging Companies + Venture Capital practice. His clients include venture capital firms and startup, venture-backed, and growth companies focused on a variety of industries, including technology and life sciences.Frank has extensive experience helping venture capital firms and companies with financing transactions, general corporate representation and counseling, and corporate governance. He advises companies through every stage of the corporate lifecycle, from pre-incorporation planning and formation issues through acquisition.Frank is fluent in Spanish.

Frank Paz