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Chair
(Admitted in California only)
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10104
212.468.8200
Mr. Wetmore is the Chair of Morrison & Foerster LLP. As Chair, Mr. Wetmore
sets policy and direction for the firm, which has more than 1,000 attorneys in 17
international offices.
During Mr. Wetmore’s tenure as Chair, Morrison & Foerster has expanded in
key international financial and technology centers. Internationally, the firm
expanded its presence in China, adding a Shanghai office to complement its
Beijing and Hong Kong sites, and it has taken on the multifaceted representation
of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Summer Olympics. In Tokyo,
the firm continued its tremendous growth in the number of both U.S. and
Japanese attorneys and maintained its status as the largest U.S. law firm
practicing in Japan. The firm’s London office has grown from 10 to 50 attorneys
under Mr. Wetmore’s leadership, with growth focused on the corporate, capital markets, life
sciences, and global sourcing practice areas.
Domestically, the firm opened a Northern Virginia office, which has become one
of the largest full-service law offices serving the entire Mid-Atlantic business
community. That followed the opening of an office in San Diego which, with 65
attorneys, makes Morrison & Foerster one of the fastest growing law firms in the
region.
Before becoming Chair, Mr. Wetmore was Managing Partner of the firm's San
Francisco office. He also led the firm's 50-lawyer Finance and Infrastructure
practice, bringing to his engagements 20 years' experience in debt and lease
finance, both domestic and international.
When in active practice, Mr. Wetmore has represented money center banks as
agent in syndicated credit facilities with particular emphasis in the technology
and forest products sectors.
Mr. Wetmore graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law
School in 1980, where he served as Articles Editor for the Michigan Law Review
and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He then clerked for Judge J. Edward
Lumbard on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York.
