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About this office: Morrison & Foerster was among the first group of international law firms to receive approval from the PRC Ministry of Justice to open a second office in China in December 2002. Established in March 2003, Morrison & Foerster Shanghai supports an established and steadily expanding PRC practice covering each of China's major business and governmental centers in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Working closely with the firm's other China offices, Morrison & Foerster Shanghai provides clients with on the ground support in China's key financial center and an integrated service platform delivering deal execution capability wherever clients' transactions and business operations take them in China. Morrison & Foerster's China office network provides international clients with comprehensive coverage for investment, finance and regulatory matters, and gives PRC companies a readily accessible local source of support for their international activities. Morrison & Foerster Shanghai represents clients in the following areas of practice: Foreign Direct Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Securities Offerings, Telecommunications, Construction and Infrastructure Projects, Technology Licensing, U.S. Patent and other Intellectual Property matters. While our lawyers in Shanghai represent a wide range of clients, they have particular expertise in working with multinationals and other foreign investors active in China's technology industries and technology based and institutional PRC companies. In handling transactional matters, Morrison & Foerster's Shanghai office works with other offices throughout the firm's global network. The firm was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1883, and now has approximately 1,100 lawyers in 17 offices worldwide, located in New York, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, London, and Brussels, and in the major business centers of California (including San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and San Diego). The firm is honored to have been retained as international legal counsel to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad in connection with its activities for the 2008 Summer Games. For more information about our Shanghai office, please contact Chuck Comey, Managing Partner, at (86-21) 6335-2290 or email at ccomey@mofo.com Areas of Practice: Commercial Law, Corporate Finance, Project Finance, Institutional Lending, Financial Services, Real Estate, Environmental and Land Use Planning, Internet and New Media, Natural Resources, Multimedia, Intellectual Property, Energy, Communications, Computer Technology, Insurance, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Product Liability, Bankruptcy and Workouts, Estate Planning, Probate, Trust Administration, Financial Transactions, Labor and Employment, Immigration, Civil, Criminal and Securities Litigation, Entertainment and Sports, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Hotel and Resort, Antitrust, International Business, International Litigation and Arbitration, Trade Regulation, Transportation, Tax, Investment Management. Statement of Practice Summary: Antitrust and competition, bankruptcy and restructuring, capital markets, cleantech, communications and media, corporate, energy, entertainment, environmental, federal and state and local tax, financial services, financial transactions, government contracts, intellectual property transactions, land use and natural resources, life sciences, patent prosecution, privacy, project finance and development, real estate, technology transactions, and trial and appellate litigation, including complex commercial, class action, intellectual property, securities, white collar defense, financial institutions, products liability and employment litigation. Year Established: 1883 Languages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, French, Malay, Spanish and Japanese. Law Firm Affiliations: LEX MUNDI (For biographical data on San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Walnut Creek, Palo Alto, Irvine and San Diego, CA, New York, NY, Washington, DC, Denver, CO, London, England, Brussels, Belgium, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Japan and Beijing, China see professional biographies at each of those cities).
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