Ropes & Gray Recognized as a Leading Firm in The Legal 500 United States 2025

Ropes & Gray was awarded 45 practice rankings and 30 lawyer rankings in The Legal 500 United States 2025. The individual lawyer recognitions included three “Hall of Fame” designations, 19 “Leading Partners,” five “Next Generation Partners,” and three “Leading Associates.”

Ropes & Gray is ranked in the following practice categories:

• Antitrust: Cartel
• Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Action
• Antitrust: Merger Control
• Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal
• Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Court (Federal and State)
• Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - corporates
• Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense - individuals
• Dispute Resolution: E-Discovery
• Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: defense
• Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings
• Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Issuers
• Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Managers
• Finance: Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers
• Finance: Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
• Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders
• Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers
• Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit
• Finance: Corporate Restructuring (including bankruptcy)
• Finance: Financial Services Regulation: Banking
• Finance: Fintech
• Finance: Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
• Finance: Structured Finance: Securitization
• Government: State Attorneys General
• Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Healthcare: Service Providers
• Industry Focus: Education
• Intellectual Property: Patents: Licensing
• Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (International Trade Commission)
• Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation: Full Coverage
• International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions
• International Trade: National Security
• Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
• Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered/Exchange Traded Funds
• Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital)
• Labor and employment: employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Labor and employment: workplace and employment counseling
• M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
• M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private equity buyouts: Large Deals ($500m+)
• M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Shareholder activism: advice to boards
• M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
• Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber Law (including data protection and privacy)
• Media, technology and telecoms: Technology Transactions
• Real Estate and construction: Real estate
• Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Tax: US Taxes: Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations, And Charities)