Ropes & Gray Recognised as a Top Private Capital Law Firm in The Legal 500 UK 2025 Rankings

Ropes & Gray has been recognised as one of the UK’s leading law firms in the 2025 edition of The Legal 500 UK directory, with the firm ranking highly across 15 practice areas: Acquisition finance, Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans, Commercial property: investment, Corporate tax, Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity, Derivatives and structured products, EU and competition, Financial services: non contentious/regulatory, Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals), Life sciences and healthcare, High yield, Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500+m), Private funds, Property finance, and Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates). 

Ropes & Gray is one of London’s leading international law firms for private capital clients, advising some of the world’s largest companies on their most challenging issues. The firm acts for sophisticated private capital investors and providers, offering them all the legal services they need: from fundraising to transactional deal-making and financing, and from antitrust to compliance, data protection, restructuring, real estate, financial regulation and tax.

In achieving this recognition from The Legal 500, the firm received commendations from various clients across a range of practices, including the following:

Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+): ‘We appreciate their ability to be hyperlocal in their knowledge of European transactions but also overlay local approaches with what we need and how we think about transactions in the US. They have great specialists and wonderful junior talent as well, in addition to world-class partners.’

Commercial property: investment: ‘Very strong understanding of the clients' commercial drivers. Able to give practical advice based on the end goal.’

Corporate tax: ‘R&G tax group stands out for its (i) collaborative approach with other professional service providers, (ii) technical insights, and (iii) practical advice.’

Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity: 'High quality team with great knowledge of data protection issues, challenges and solutions.'

Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory: ‘Cutting-edge regulatory practice, providing sound, commercially savvy and well-balanced regulatory advice.’

Life sciences and healthcare: ‘The team at Ropes and Gray have an unsurpassed knowledge of the laws and regulations covering the pharma and biotech industries and, more unusually, this knowledge is combined with an excellent feel for the complexities and nuances of actually running such a company.’ 

Private funds: ‘All you need and would want in a private funds counsel team.'

Property finance: ‘Great commercial knowledge. Able to give practical and user-friendly advice, enabling principals to focus on decision-making.’

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