Founded in 1883, Morrison & Foerster is a law firm based in San Francisco, California. The practice areas of the firm include litigation, financial services, intellectual property and technology, transactional work, corporate, capital markets and real estate finance representations. MoFo specializes in banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, derivatives and structured products, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital practices. The firm caters to the aerospace, defense, business development companies, clean technology, consumer brands, consumer products, energy, life sciences, retail, real estate, environment, and natural resource sectors.