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Morrison & Foerster LLP

425 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105-2482, USA
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Work +1 415 268 7000
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Fax +1 415 268 7522
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Robert Townsend

Tel:
Work +1 (415) 268-7080
Email:
Morrison & Foerster LLP

Work Department

Corporate/M&A.

Position

Robert S. Townsend is a leading corporate attorney with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, venture capital, securities law, and intellectual property matters. Mr. Townsend’s expertise cuts across many industries, such as software, Internet, media, communications, semiconductor, computers, consumer products, cleantech, energy, wineries, and vineyards. Mr. Townsend also has extensive international and cross border experience, having been involved in deals in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Mr. Townsend has represented numerous public and private companies, and investors, in corporate and finance matters ranging from mergers and acquisitions to seed round financings and initial public offerings. He regularly advises CEOs, Boards of Directors, and Special Committees in strategic and corporate governance issues. Mr. Townsend has represented clients in more than one hundred public and private company acquisitions, strategic alliances, and financings, ranging in size from over several billion dollars to much smaller transactions. Recent representative clients of Mr. Townsend include Visa, VMware, Intel, Technicolor (Thomson, S.A.), The Clorox Company, Kaiser, Nokia, Sutter Hill Ventures, GESD Capital, Fujitsu, Nikon, and COM Investments (Craig McCaw’s investment company).

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