News About Morrison & Foerster

Around the house: Jack Daniels-owner names next GC, Cargill lines up CLO replacement from HPE

This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments and departures at ITN, CVC Capital Partners, Deutsche Bank and SJI

19 Jan 2024

Quinn Emanuel hires privacy and technology disputes partner from MoFo in London

Gemma Anderson is the fourth partner to join specialist litigation firm in London this year

12 Dec 2023

Proskauer makes double litigation hire from MoFo in New York

Duo include first-chair trial veterans Grant Esposito and David Fioccola


10 Oct 2023

OpenAI hits back at writers’ copyright infringement claims

ChatGPT creator moves to dismiss claims in lawsuits filed by authors including high-profile writer and performer Sarah Silverman

30 Aug 2023

US Appeals court reverses USPTO decision to invalidate five CRISPR patents

Five patents relating to groundbreaking gene editing technology cannot be quashed by interference proceedings used in previous US patent system

18 Jul 2023

SCOTUS curtails foreign reach of US trademark law in surprise ruling

Some 70 years of jurisprudence ‘effectively overruled’ as proving infringing and counterfeiting acts abroad becomes harder

4 Jul 2023

US corporates see C-suite take on bigger role in ESG leadership, MoFo study finds

Increased regulatory demands prompts shift in ESG policy from GCs to chief compliance officers and CEOs

27 Jun 2023

Paul Hastings bolsters Silicon Valley litigation practice with hiring of top IP litigator

Rudy Kim joins top 30 US law firm from Morrison Foerster where he chaired its Palo Alto litigation department

4 May 2023

Majority of US companies dismiss concerns of long-term banking disruption, study shows

MoFo survey shows most companies think impact of recent banking collapses will be short-lived

25 Apr 2023

Morrison Foerster adds private equity partner in China from Kirkland & Ellis

Rongjing Zhao joins as US firm’s third PE partner hire in Asia this year

4 Apr 2023

MoFo and Freshfields advise on Fujitsu’s €432m takeover of Germany's GK Software

Deal features undertaking by GK Software's founders to sell their shareholdings

2 Mar 2023

Morrison Foerster secures private equity real estate partner in Singapore from White & Case

Tabitha Saw brings extensive private equity real estate and data centre transactions experience across Asia

6 Feb 2023

Morrison Foerster secures senior Bank of England adviser to bolster London fintech offering

Sam Riley’s arrival follows US firm adding four-strong team from Brown Rudnick in London last November to build contentious IP practice

17 Jan 2023

Transactions department dominates in 18-strong promotions round at Morrison Foerster

Women make up nearly 40% of round that sees lawyers make partner across the US, London, Singapore and Tokyo

6 Jan 2023

MoFo targets London contentious IP work with four-strong team hire from Brown Rudnick

Team's arrival comes hard on heels of acquisition of West Coast IP boutique Durie Tangri

28 Nov 2022

Morrison Foerster absorbs 'stellar' Californian litigation boutique Durie Tangri

Durie Tangri’s 36 lawyers to move across, boosting MoFo's West Coast IP coverage

12 Oct 2022

Morrison Foerster elects San Francisco M&A partner as new chair

Eric Takeshi McCrath will be the firm’s first ethnically diverse chair when he replaces Larren Nashelsky in October

28 Jun 2022

Morrison Foerster adds another West Coast partner from Perkins Coie

Life sciences specialist Matthew Ferry becomes the sixth partner to have moved over since the start of the year

8 Jun 2022