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Susan “Suz” Mac Cormac is Co-chair of the firm’s Impact, Energy, and Cleantech Groups. Her work focuses on advising innovative sustainable companies and investors, with particular expertise on ensuring investments have positive impact through use of new corporate forms, hybrids, alternative debt and equity instruments and disclosure.

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Alfredo B. D. Silva represents public and private technology companies and strategic and financial investors in a broad range of capital markets transactions, early- and late-stage financings, and corporate governance matters in a variety of industries, including Life Sciences, Health Tech, FinTech, and SaaS.

Alfredo Silva is co-chair of the firms Social Enterprise + Impact Investing practice and member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. He represents public and private companies and investors in a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, as well as nonprofit organizations on entity formation, fiduciary issues, and structuring.

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Benjamin Fox is an associate in the firm’s Corporate Department in the San Francisco office. Benjamin is a member of the firm’s Social Enterprise and Impact Investing and Energy and Clean Technology Groups.

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Suz Mac Cormac spoke to the Daily Journal for an article featuring the Bay Area Small/Social Enterprise Task Force (BASE Force), which is a group led by Morrison & Foerster with other legal, financial, and nonprofit professionals who are guiding small businesses through emergency resources. The task force is focused on collecting local, state, federal, and private/nonprofit resources for Bay Area small businesses impacted by COVID-19 and disseminating this information in a digestible way as quickly as possible.“The current estimate is 30% of the small businesses in the Bay Area will not be there by this summer if we don’t help them,” said Suz, who is chair of the firm’s Social Enterprise + Impact Investing Group and is leading the firm’s efforts on the task force. She added that with BASE Force, “We want to give the same level of advice we are giving to the large, well-funded venture and private equity backed companies.”The task force is looking for more attorneys and law firms to provide support. The need, Suz said, is staggering."I don't know how to explain this to people if you don't see it -- it is as big as climate change," she said of the number of struggling business owners in the Bay Area. "We have to get the word out because it's going to be real. It's going to be awful."Read the <a href="https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/357414-lawyers-helping-small-businesses-navigating-cares-act-funding-requirements" target="_blank">full article</a> (subscription required).

Susan (“Suz”) Mac Cormac is a Corporate partner at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and chairs the Energy and Social Enterprise and Impact Investing practices. Her practice focuses on late-stage f

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Suz Mac Cormac and Kaela Colwell spoke to the Daily Journal for an article featuring the Bay Area Small/Social Enterprise Task Force (BASE Force), which is a gr

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