Ropes & Gray was awarded 44 practice rankings and 206 lawyer recommendations in The Legal 500 United States 2024. The individual lawyer recognitions included four “Hall of Fame” designations, 19 “Leading Lawyers,” seven “Next Generation Partners,” and two “Rising Stars”.
This year, clients shared that the firm “offers excellence and speed through their deep expertise, effective collaboration and practical approach when advising on projects and novel issues.” Others confirmed: “Their substantive legal expertise is top-shelf and they are so collaborative.”
Ropes & Gray is ranked in the following practice categories:
- Antitrust: Cartel
- Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Action
- Antitrust: Merger Control
- Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal
- Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Court (Federal and State)
- Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - corporates
- Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - individuals
- Dispute Resolution: E-Discovery
- Dispute Resolution: M&A: Litigation: defense
- Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: defense
- Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings
- Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Issuers
- Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Managers
- Finance: Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers
- Finance: Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
- Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers
- Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Lenders
- Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including bankruptcy)
- Finance: Financial Services Regulation: Broker-Dealers
- Finance: Fintech
- Finance: Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
- Finance: Structured Finance: Securitization
- Government: State Attorneys General
- Healthcare: Life Sciences
- Healthcare: Service Providers
- Intellectual Property: Patents: Licensing
- Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation: Full Coverage
- Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)
- International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions
- Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
- Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered/Exchange Traded Funds
- Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital)
- Labor and employment: employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment: workplace and employment counseling
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: large deals ($1bn+)*
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private equity buyouts: Large Deals ($500m+)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Shareholder activism: advice to boards
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
- Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber Law (including data protection and privacy)
- Media, technology and telecoms: Technology Transactions
- Real Estate and construction: Real estate
- Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Tax: US Taxes: Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations, And Charities)
