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International
With our roots in Boston, a major U.S. port city, Ropes & Gray has always had significant international components throughout the firm's practice. Over the years our international business expertise has grown and developed, allowing us to provide our domestic and foreign clients with legal support for a full array of their international needs. Our international experience reaches across all areas of the firm’s practice from corporate transactions, finance and tax planning, to international litigation and commercial arbitration. To support our International Practice, the firm maintains an office in London and has corresponding relationships with local firms throughout the world to help assure that Ropes & Gray's clients receive responsive, high quality legal services wherever they are needed. Our practice areas of focus include:
- Antitrust/Competition Law
- Corporate Transactions
- Financing and Securities
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Insolvency
- Intellectual Property Licensing and Rights Management
- Investment Management
- Life Sciences
- Litigation and Commercial Arbitration
- Tax Planning
How We Help Our Clients
Corporate Transactions
Our Corporate and International Tax lawyers assist our clients, which include private equity funds, in structuring, negotiating and implementing trans-national investments, mergers, acquisitions and alliances as well as in developing and implementing international distribution systems for their products and services. These activities often include advice and support from Ropes & Gray lawyers with knowledge of foreign competition law and pre-merger notification requirements as well as intellectual property lawyers who assist in obtaining and maintaining important intangible assets.
Investment Management
Lawyers from our Investment Management Group advise foreign investment management firms and other financial institutions with respect to their U.S. operations including:
- Acquiring U.S. advisors;
- Complying with foreign control regulations;
- 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;
- Providing counsel on U.S. and international taxation; and
- Ongoing regulatory compliance.
We also work with a wide variety of U.S. and foreign investment funds to develop and implement new domestic and offshore products. This activity includes product design, tax planning, regulatory compliance and trading issues.
Life Sciences
Our Life Sciences lawyers assist international pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in a variety of matters. For example:
- We advise foreign pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in public and private securities offerings in the United States and abroad, as well as in acquisitions of U.S.-based entities.
- We regularly represent foreign life sciences companies in negotiating joint venture, collaboration and licensing arrangements with research institutions, universities and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies within and outside of the United States.
- We assist foreign pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in establishing operations and distribution systems within the United States and, where necessary, to obtain FDA and other regulatory approvals and comply with other regulations affecting life sciences companies operating in this country.
In addition, we assist our domestic life sciences clients with their international activities and agreements including, product licensing and sales, technology development and transfer and clinical trials agreements.
Litigation
Lawyers from our Litigation Group represent large international insurers in U.S. based litigation and assist our foreign and domestic clients to resolve 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.
Our Clients
We represent a broad range of clients that are active participants in the global economy. They range from mature U.S. based multi-nationals with significant offshore engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales and service organizations and large foreign corporations doing business in North America to both domestic and foreign start-up companies seeking new markets for their products and services.
Contact
For further information about our International Practice, please contact:
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