FIRM PROFILE Morrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage. With our collective intelligence, we shape powerful legal strategies that move your business forward while living our shared values. We solve your most critical multidimensional challenges in a way that provides clarity around the risk you are facing and gives you confidence in your chosen path. We pair diversity of perspective with a strategic consultative approach to craft the tailored strategies you need. We foster trusted partnerships that are defined by winning for you when it matters most. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and leading technology and life sciences companies. We represent organizations—whether established for decades or just an entrepreneur’s idea—as they grow, innovate, disrupt, and develop into leading industry players and household names. PRACTICE PROFILE As a truly global practice with corporate/M&A lawyers located across three continents, we are considered a go-to firm for cross-border dealmaking, with over 50% of our transactions last year involving multiple jurisdictions. Our work includes carve-outs and other divestitures, sell-side engagements, private company acquisitions, public company mergers and tender offers, and some of the highestprofile contested public company matters. Our M&A lawyers also work as an integrated team with advisors in key areas such as intellectual property, antitrust, capital markets, litigation, tax, labor and benefits, finance and bankruptcy, real estate, regulatory and compliance, privacy and data security, and securities. Spencer Klein is global M&A co-chair and head of the Corporate Department in New York. He has advised on more than 200 successfully closed mergers, tender and exchange offers, stock and asset acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures. He is considered the firm’s go-to partner on hostile M&A and shareholder activism defense. Spencer frequently advises leading U.S. and multinational companies across multiple industries. His engagements include multibillion-dollar deals in healthcare and life sciences, financial services, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, retail, energy, and entertainment and media. In addition to prominent corporate clients and private equity funds, he has represented some of the world’s leading bulge bracket and boutique investment banks. Notable recent matters include representing: • The rock band KISS and its co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley in the sale of substantially all rights related to KISS to Pophouse Entertainment. • U.S. Silica Holdings in its $1.85 billion sale to entities affiliated with Apollo Global Management. • Ascendent Capital Partners in its $1.66 billion acquisition of Hollysys. MoFo advised the iconic rock band KISS and its co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley in the sale of all assets comprising KISS to Pophouse Entertainment. This transaction at the intersection of music and technology included not just the music catalogue, but also the brand name and likeness, including the famous KISS face paint designs and trademarks of KISS. Aligning on in-scope assets and navigating thirdparty rights posed challenges. The transaction included an agreement with Pophouse for future projects, including an avatar show based on state-of-the-art biometric and AI technology, making KISS the first rock band that will live forever. This industry-defining transaction showcased Spencer Klein’s legal knowledge, creativity, and veteran leadership, as guiding this sale required months of complex negotiations to create win-win solutions for both sides. As part of Pophouse’s partnership with KISS, Spencer successfully helped negotiate the terms by which Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons agreed to assist with the transfer of KISS assets and memorabilia and to consult and participate in the development of the avatar show and other new activities going forward. Spencer and the MoFo team dealt with the brand-new issues involved with the creation of digital versions of the band members and the allocation of the unique assets that embody KISS among the buyers and sellers. Morrison & Foerster guides rock band KISS on assets sale to Pophouse Entertainment www.mofo.com Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2025. 11 USA
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