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Morrison  & Foerster - University Private Equity Summit 2006 Sponsor

With more than one thousand lawyers in nineteen 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, its legendary litigation skills, and an unrivaled reach across the Pacific Rim,  particularly in Japan and China. We have one compelling mission: to deliver success for our clients.

Great client service requires insight and expertise, responsiveness, proactivity, and integrity. We strive to understand each client’s business, industry and goals. We assemble the best team of resources from across the firm to tackle our clients’ legal challenges. Whether we achieve a successful IPO, a trial victory, or the satisfying resolution of a pro-bono matter, we build lasting relationships with every client by consistently delivering results. The firm’s outstanding client work achieved broad recognition in 2004. Morrison & Foerster served as issuer’s counsel in three of Red Herring’s 10 Best Performing IPOs of the year and ranked among the Top Ten IPO law firms by IPO Vital Signs for 2004. American Lawyer’s 2004 survey cited our Litigation Department as one of the top litigation practices in the country. Global Counsel ranked our Intellectual Property practice the leader among law firms in the U.S. for Life Sciences.

Intellectual agility is the hallmark of Morrison & Foerster. We apply it to every matter – from the complex to the routine – to ensure the best outcomes for clients. We attract and retain the best attorneys by practicing at the highest levels of the legal profession in a culture that emphasizes collegiality, respect for everyone, professional and business ethics, and duty to the profession and our communities. Our commitment to diversity and genuine collegiality creates a work environment ideally suited to collaboration and effective teamwork. Progressive workplace policies embodying the principle of mutual respect translate into loyalty and lower turnover rates, winning results and more stable, enduring client relationships. Others recognize the strength of our culture: we are among Fortune’s 2005 list of Best Companies to Work For, American Lawyer’s 2004  and 2005 “The A-List", and for many years running, Vault survey’s #1 law firm for diversity and the Best Place to Work.

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