Ropes and Gray Recognised as a Leading Private Capital Law Firm by The Legal 500 UK 2024

Rankings & Awards
October 10, 2023

“They have a slick operation and provide a fantastic service to their clients. They provide an impressive blend of intellect and commerciality, always focusing on the client’s outcomes. From a service level, nothing is too much trouble. They are an all round pleasure to work with.”

Ropes & Gray has been recognised as one of the UK’s leading law firms in the 2024 edition of The Legal 500 UK directory, with the firm ranking highly across 16 practice areas.

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: They are a top-tier private equity practice and they really know their stuff.”. “Brilliant technical lawyers with good commercial sense and judgement.”

Commercial property: Investment: “The Ropes & Gray UK team are best in class when it comes to complex real estate private equity matters. They have an advanced understanding of real estate transactions, but also of the equity and investment structuring behind those transactions.”

Corporate tax: “The team are excellent transaction executioners. They want to understand what is important to the client, they reassure that your position will be protected, they do not create additional unnecessary issues and I have full confidence that they will go in to defend my position in a sensible and commercial way.”

Acquisition finance: “Ropes & Gray has a market leading leveraged finance practice . The integrated practice across the US and UK is excellent.”

Life sciences and healthcare: “Excellent expertise in regulatory law. I think the pharma practice is exceptional.”

Data protection, privacy & cybersecurity: “Strong understanding of the law and an ability to deliver advice in an easily digestible form.”

Regulatory investigations and corporate crime: “‘The team is well placed to give a wide range of advice. Lots of private equity portfolio company work means a very broad breadth of experience at not only the law, but how to make a compliance programme actually work in practice.”

EU and competition: The EU competition team at Ropes is top notch. They are lean and nimble and always able to provide the services we need, and often very quickly. They have taken the time to educate our in-house team on the subject and provide close guidance on the process.”

Financial services: Non-contentious/regulatory: “Solution oriented, practical advice and good cross-border collaborations with leading local law firms.”

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