Ropes & Gray Ranks Among UK's Preeminent Private Capital Firms in Chambers 2025

Rankings & Awards
October 17, 2024

“We see the Ropes & Gray team as an extension of our own team…” - Private equity client

Ropes & Gray has been recognised as one of the UK's leading law firms in the 2025 edition of the Chambers UK Guide, earning rankings in eight practice areas.

As one of London’s leading global law firms for sophisticated private capital investor and provider clients, Ropes & Gray offers 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. The firm advises some of the world’s largest businesses on their most challenging issues, particularly in the life sciences and healthcare, technology and financial services sectors.

In achieving these rankings from Chambers, the firm received commendations from clients across a range of practices, including the following:

Banking & Finance: Borrowers: Big-Ticket - "They have an excellent commercial understanding of our business, provide good technical advice and the strong ability to execute successful transactions."

Banking & Finance: Sponsors - "The team is very hardworking, pro-active and creative in their approach."

Banking & Finance: Lenders: Mid-Market - "I have a good degree of trust in the team from the partner level down - they're always available."

Capital Markets: High-Yield Products - "The team has strong expertise across the board and is very client-centric."

Corporate Crime & Investigations - "Ropes & Gray's team is highly experienced and staffed to handle complex matters. They have high-quality coverage for all angles and can turn around work to meet tight deadlines."

Investment Funds: Private Equity: Secondaries - It is a highly creative team that is able to solve for novel, precedent-setting transaction structures."

Private Equity: Buyouts: £500 million and above -"The firm has a tireless team with superb responsiveness that can balance commercial judgement and contractual protection very well."

Tax - "I never have to follow up with Ropes; the perspectives and advice given are almost always clear and on point in the first instance."

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