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Morrison & Foerster LLP
Practical Law Panel Firm: Capital Markets & Corporate Governance
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250 West 55th Street
New York, NY 10019-9601
T: +1 (212) 468-8000
F: +1 (212) 468-7900
W: www.mofo.com
With more than a thousand lawyers in 17 offices around the world, Morrison & Foerster offers clients comprehensive, global legal services in business and litigation. The firm is distinguished by its unsurpassed expertise in finance, life sciences and technology, legendary litigation skills and an unrivaled reach across the Pacific Rim, particularly in Japan and China.
Morrison & Foerster is a leading capital markets law firm, advising issuers, agents and underwriters in a broad range of domestic and international private and public financings. Some of the relevant statistics: over 220 capital markets lawyers in 17 offices worldwide; consistently ranked as one of the most active securities firms in the United States and Asia; representing issuers and underwriters in hundreds of securities offerings raising over $100 billion each year.
Morrison & Foerster's Public Companies and Corporate Governance Practice advises public and private companies and their management, officers and directors on:
- "Best Practices" for boards and board committees.
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act governance requirements.
- Governance requirements of securities exchanges.
- Director and officer fiduciary duties and responsibilities.
- Board/management issues, including conflicts of interest, related party transactions and executive compensation.
- Board and committee governance matters, including charters, programs and policies, self evaluations, codes of conduct and executive succession planning.
- Enterprise-wide compliance and risk management programs.
- Public company disclosure issues and related liability considerations.
- Shareholder relations (including shareholder communications, responding to shareholder proposals, dealing with shareholder activists, institutional corporate governance advisors, and shareholder advisory firms).
- Proxy contests and other corporate control efforts.
- Special committee representation and internal investigations.