Overview
When businesses need capital outside the ordinary course, or capital providers seek to deploy capital using novel structures or in unique situations, the solution demands creative structuring, flexibility, speed, and market fluency. Ropes & Gray's capital solutions group integrates the world’s top finance, capital markets, and M&A lawyers together in one team. Recognized as Law360’s 2025 Complex Financial Instruments Practice Group of the Year, we deliver superior advice on complex financings, strategic M&A transactions, liability management, and stressed/distressed situations, wherever they arise.
Every Type of Market Actor, Every Step of the Way
We stay with clients at every stage, from an opportunistic investment through a liability management transaction to an in-court restructuring, working with market participants that include:
- Asset managers and other capital providers deploying opportunistic capital
- Companies seeking creative or alternative financing solutions
- Sponsors navigating stressed and distressed portfolio company situations
- Borrowers and lenders pursuing value-maximizing strategies both in and out of court
Because we advise both capital providers and the companies and sponsors seeking capital, we bring a current view of what each side of the table will accept.
Our clients include credit funds, hedge funds, institutional investors, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, public and private companies, family offices, and business development companies.
We advise across a wide range of instruments, transactions and structures, including:
- Hybrid capital (including preferred and structured equity, convertible securities and other equity-linked investments)
- Co-investment and joint venture arrangements
- Bespoke credit facilities
- Balance sheet optimization
- Liability management
We also formulate financing solutions for out-of-court and in-court restructurings, strategic M&A, Section 363 sales, and comprehensive recapitalizations.
We tailor tax-efficient and strategically optimized solutions for every client, working hand in hand with colleagues in tax, regulatory, litigation, and asset management. In this way, we keep clients ahead of evolving market precedent and innovative financing structures.
