The Financial Times honored Ropes & Gray for its outstanding work on behalf of clients during the 2024 Innovative Lawyers Awards North America. The awards celebrate law firms and in-house legal teams who are driving innovation in the legal sector to bring good to business and society.
Ropes & Gray is proud to have been shortlisted in several categories and its achievements providing innovative solutions to complex business issues and reinventing services and delivery models:
Standout
Innovative Lawyers in Dispute Resolution: Dismissal of an FTC Antitrust Lawsuit Targeting Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
A litigation team secured the dismissal of a novel FTC enforcement action that targeted private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for alleged anticompetitive conduct, a major win for the private equity industry. The team included litigation & enforcement partners David Hennes and Jane Willis and included Kathryn Caldwell, senior attorney David Young, associates Elena Davis, Sandra Hough Masselink, Ioana Moldovan, Logan Hovie, Rebecca Michelson, and Rory Skowron, and paralegal Jerome Genova.
Commended
Innovative Lawyers in Deals & Financing: National Amusements Sale to Skydance
A cross-practice team guided National Amusements in a sale to entities affiliated with the Ellison Family and RedBird Capitalfor $2.4 billion on a cash-free, debt-free basis. This team included mergers & acquisitions partners Jackie Cohen and Emily Oldshue, litigation & enforcement partners Peter Welsh and Marty Crisp, tax partner Scott Pinarchick, benefits partner Renata Ferrari, finance partner Byung Choi, and antitrust partners Michael McFalls and Ruchit Patel and intellectual property partner Erica Han, and associates Debbie Wang, Ani-Rae Lovell, Rebecca Liu, Chandler Burnham, Kasey Hughes, Alex Schubert and Kendall Spencer.
Commended
Innovation in Using Data for our AI Court Order Tracker, a powerful, first-of-its-kind tool for monitoring rules on the use of AI in courtrooms in a wide range of jurisdictions.
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