U.S. firm Morrison & Foerster ushered in the new year by electing 14 lawyers to partnership across nine out of its 15 global offices in January this year. Two of the 14 promotions took place at the firm’s Tokyo and Hong Kong offices.
"These partners have demonstrated a commitment to client service and legal excellence,” said MoFo’s chair Keith C. Wetmore. “We are confident that this talented group of lawyers will make tremendous contributions to our clients' success, and the firm's progress."
The firm’s Tokyo office has welcomed Narutake Takasu, a member of its real estate group, as a new partner. Licensed to practice in Japan, he has served both Japanese and non-Japanese clients in the takeover and financing of real estate assets, acquisitions of distressed debts, as well as cross border and domestic Japanese investment fund formations.
Takasu has also offered legal advice on select financial regulations, such as the Financial Instruments Exchange Act, and property-related rules.
Gregory Wang Feihong, a member of the firm’s corporate group in Hong Kong, also rose to partnership effective Jan. 1, 2012.
Admitted to the New York bar and licensed to practice in China and Hong Kong, Wang focuses on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate matters in Greater China. He joined the firm in 2010, and has advised on the privatisation of China’s state-owned banks and companies, global offerings and listings at the Hong Kong bourse, as well as convertible bonds and high yield debts. Before he joined MoFo in 2010, Wang had worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Hong Kong and New York offices for 10 years.
In 2011, Wang represented CICC and CITIC Securities as the joint underwriter in China CITIC Bank Corp’s $4 billion A- and H-share rights issue, in which King & Wood served as the PRC counsel, while Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer served as the Hong Kong and U.S. counsel for the issuer.
Wang has also advised BOCI Asia and UBS as the placing agent in the $684 million placing of shares of Sino-Ocean Land Holdings by its shareholder COSCO International Holdings in 2010. ALB
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