Ropes & Gray Ranked in 36 Practice Areas in Legal 500 US

Rankings & Awards
May 31, 2019

Ropes & Gray is ranked in 36 practice areas in the 2019 Legal 500 US, announced on May 29. Multiple attorneys have been individually recommended in their areas of practice, including 15 who have been named “Leading Lawyers” in their fields, and seven who have been named “Next Generation” leaders in their fields.

The firm increased its ranking in seven categories, and gained rankings in five new categories.

Ropes & Gray is ranked in the following practice categories:

  • Antitrust: Cartel
  • Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Action
  • Antitrust: Merger Control
  • Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Court (Federal and State)
  • Dispute Resolution: E-Discovery
  • Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes
  • Dispute Resolution: M&A: Litigation: defense
  • Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation - Defense
  • Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to corporates
  • Dispute Resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to individuals
  • 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: Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers
  • Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Lenders
  • Finance: Corporate restructuring (including bankruptcy)
  • Industry focus: Healthcare: life sciences
  • Industry focus: Healthcare: service providers
  • Intellectual property: Patent litigation: full coverage
  • Intellectual property: Patents:  Licensing
  • Intellectual property: Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
  • 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
  • Labor and employment: employee benefits and executive compensation
  • Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
  • M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Commercial Deals and Contracts
  • M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: large deals ($1bn+)*
  • M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private equity buyouts
  • M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Shareholder activism: advice to boards
  • Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber Law (including data protection and privacy)
  • Media, technology and telecoms: Fintech
  • Media, technology and telecoms: Technology: Transactions
  • Real Estate and construction: real estate
  • Tax: US Taxes: Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, and national trade associations and charities)**
  • Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious