Ropes & Gray Recognized as a Leading Firm in The Legal 500 United States 2026

Ropes & Gray was awarded 44 practice rankings and 30 lawyer rankings in The Legal 500 United States 2026. The individual lawyer recognitions included 3 “Hall of Fame” designations, 19 “Leading Partners,” 5 “Next Generation Partners,” and 3 “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/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 Offering: Advice to issuers
• Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offering: Advice to Underwriters
• 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: Financial Services Regulation: Banking
• Finance: Fintech
• Finance: Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• General commercial disputes – mid-market ($250-500m)
• 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: Full Coverage
• 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: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
• Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber Law (including data protection and privacy)
• Media, technology and telecoms: Technology Transactions
• Real Estate - Large Cap ($500m+)
• Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Tax: US Taxes: Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations, And Charities)
• United States > Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense

The firm’s full rankings can be found here.