Ropes & Gray Adopts Centari to Enhance AI-Driven Counsel

Ropes & Gray LLP today announced that the firm has adopted Centari, the platform for Deal Intelligence, across its premier transactional practices. The move extends the firm's long-standing commitment to data-driven legal counsel, transforming the firm’s proprietary deal and fund databases into a dynamic source of market insight.

Ropes & Gray’s market-leading M&A and private equity practices deliver winning outcomes in historic deals for the world’s most powerful and admired clients. Centari’s proprietary Deal Reasoning Engine transforms this body of experience into structured data, enabling the firm to provide clients with unique insight into patterns and emerging trends.

“Our clients expect us to be at the forefront of market trends,” said Howard Glazer, the leader of Ropes & Gray’s private equity transactions practice. “With real-time market insight from our extensive deal history, we are positioned to provide the most precise and strategic counsel possible in high-stakes negotiations.”

“Our reputation is built on leveraging deep expertise to provide our clients with a competitive edge,” said Marc Feldhamer, Counsel, Knowledge Management in the Ropes & Gray private equity group. “Centari allows us to operationalize our institutional knowledge, ensuring every lawyer can access and apply the full breadth of our experience in their delivery of services.”

Brett Cameron, Knowledge Management Attorney in Ropes & Gray’s M&A group, added, “We are making a strategic investment in our intellectual capital. With Centari, we empower our teams to move beyond routine data retrieval and focus on elevating the strategic advice we deliver to clients across complex transactions.

The private funds group will also benefit from Centari, allowing for enhanced client-service for our asset management practice.

Patrick Ryan, Director of Legal Knowledge Management at Ropes & Gray, commented, “This adoption is a significant milestone in our firm-wide commitment to legal innovation. It demonstrates our conviction that the future of legal service is powered by the intelligent application of proprietary knowledge, giving us a definitive edge in the market.”

Building on Ropes & Gray’s long-standing commitment to innovation, including initiatives like the R&G Insights Lab and AI curriculum for new associates, the Centari implementation underscores the firm’s deliberate, multi-year AI strategy and its relentless focus on client value.