Ropes & Gray LLP is a leading global law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers and professionals and offices in Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. We maintain close relationships with leading law firms throughout the world to assure that our clients receive responsive, high-quality legal services wherever they are needed. Our non-exclusive relationships with non-U.S. local counsel allows us to select the attorneys best able to address each client’s unique needs. Our attorneys remain fully involved in coordinating all aspects of our clients’ transactions with local counsel, ensuring that the advice and support is fully responsive to our clients’ business needs and goals. By teaming our attorneys who have extensive international experience with the most knowledgeable and sophisticated attorneys outside the United States, our clients’ needs are fully satisfied. Our international experience reaches across all offices and areas of our practice.

Our Clients

We represent a broad range of clients that are active participants in the global economy. They range from mature U.S.-, European-, and Asian-based multinationals with significant offshore engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and service organizations to both domestic and foreign start-up companies seeking new markets for their products and services.

How We Help Our Clients

Our cross-border transactions include: mergers and acquisitions, commercial activities, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, as well as the distribution and licensing of products.

Corporate Transactions - Our corporate and international tax lawyers assist our clients with: private equity funds, structuring, negotiating, and implementing transnational investments, mergers and acquisitions, and alliances, and developing and implementing international distribution systems for their products and services. These activities often include advice and support from our lawyers who have knowledge of foreign competition law and pre-merger notification requirements, and our intellectual property lawyers who assist in obtaining and maintaining important intangible assets.

Investment Management - Lawyers from our Investment Management practice group advise foreign investment management firms and other financial institutions with respect to their U.S. operations including: acquiring U.S. advisors; advising on exempt activities; establishing and registering U.S. investment advisor and broker dealer subsidiaries; organizing private investment companies, mutual funds, ERISA group trust, hedge funds, and investment partnerships; and providing counsel on U.S. and international taxation and ongoing regulatory compliance. 

Life Sciences - Our Life Sciences practice assists U.S. and offshore pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies in a variety of matters. Examples include: advising them in public and private securities offerings in the United States and abroad, as well as in acquisitions of U.S.-based entities; negotiating joint venture, collaboration, and licensing arrangements with research institutions, universities, and biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies within and outside of the United States. 

We also assist these companies in establishing operations and distribution systems within the United States and, when necessary, with obtaining FDA and other regulatory approvals and complying with other regulations affecting life sciences companies operating in this country.  

Litigation - Our Litigation practice handles litigation, arbitration, and mediation for companies doing business in the United States and, U.S.-based companies doing business abroad. We also represent clients in international arbitration and coordinate multijurisdictional litigation. In addition, we represent large international insurers in U.S.-based litigation and assist our foreign and domestic clients in resolving disputes through litigation and commercial arbitration in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. We also assist our clients in managing international regulatory investigations and government enforcement actions.

Awards

Chambers Global 2010 - 11 of our practice areas and 19 of our lawyers recognized as leaders worldwide.

Chambers UK 2009 - Three of our lawyers were ranked.

Chambers Asia 2009: Asia’s Leading Lawyers for Business - Our Intellectual Property practice in Japan was ranked as a leading practice.

Chambers Asia 2010: Asia’s Leading Lawyers for Business - Two of our private equity attorneys were listed as “notable practitioners.”

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2010 - 37 practice areas and 92 lawyers selected as leaders.

Asian Legal Business Japan Law Awards 2009 - We were the recipient of the “Technology, Media and Telecommunications Deal of the Year” for our advisory role in Bain Capital’s acquisition of D&M Holdings. We were was also a finalist in the “Deal of the Year” category.

Asian Legal Business magazine’s survey of “Asia’s Leading IP Firms 2009” – We were a winner in the category of “Japan–International Firms.”

WORLDLeaders European IP Awards 2008 - Ropes & Gray won the award for “Excellence in Patent Practice/Litigation in Private Practice” in the Asia-Pacific region.

Asian Legal Business - We were ranked as having leading “Intellectual Property” and “Private Equity” practices.

The Best Lawyers in America 2010 - 110 of our lawyers were recognized as among the best lawyers in the nation across 36 different practice areas.

Contact

Harry Rubin
Rom Watson 

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