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Morrison Foerster's global Food + Agriculture practice delivers innovative and business-minded solutions to help clients feed a rapidly growing population. From farm to table, we offer full life cycle counselling to help companies and investors navigate the future of food across the supply chain. We are trusted business advisors to a diverse portfolio of clients, ranging from disruptive new food start-ups to Fortune 50 companies and the lenders and investors that finance the industry. Our team of more than 80 lawyers, patent agents, and scientific advisors understands the complex science, technologies, and related business models facing the food and agriculture industry, and we offer the business insights, legal skills, technical knowledge, and global reach critical to attaining commercial value and success. Our cross-disciplinary team provides strategic counselling on private equity, M&A, venture capital, intellectual property, technology transactions and licensing, FDA and regulatory compliance, environmental, social, and governance matters, privacy and data security, and related litigation. We are also a global leader in multinational IP protection related to new plant varieties, gene-edited plants, transgenic plants, and agricultural products and equipment.