Morrison & Foerster LLP was founded in 1883 in San Francisco, California, USA. Currently, they have more than 1,000 foreign lawyers in 18 offices in total, including San Francisco, Palo Alto, California, New York, Washington DC, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, London, Brussels, and Berlin. I'm here.

He has expertise and experience in a wide range of practice areas, especially in the fields of technology, life sciences and finance, and also represents domestic and foreign companies in corporate dispute resolution. Business in Japan started in Tokyo in 1987, and it is one of the earliest registered foreign law firms in Japan, and has now grown into the largest registered foreign law firm in Japan. . The Tokyo office is mainly composed of the business department and the litigation department, and the business fields of the business department are wide-ranging, including cross-border M&A, joint ventures, strategic business alliances, real estate, licensing, project development, and project finance. The litigation department also has extensive experience in patent, copyright, computer law, trade secret infringement and other intellectual property matters, international arbitration, antitrust and trade regulation, white collar crime and general commercial matters. I'm here.

In April 2001, Morrison & Foerster Law Offices (formerly Ito Mitomi Law Offices) started a foreign law joint venture with Morrison & Foerster Registered Foreign Law Offices. In addition to securities, real estate and M&A, a wide range of domestic and foreign companies in various fields such as corporate finance, global strategic business alliances, antitrust law, intellectual property rights, dispute resolution between companies, corporate compliance, securitization transactions, etc. is representing Morrison & Foerster Law Office provides not only legal services related to Japanese law, but also domestic and overseas foreign lawyers of Morrison & Foerster Foreign Law Office, depending on the nature of each case and whether it is a domestic transaction or an international transaction. They work together as a team to meet the needs of their clients.