Overview
Ropes & Gray’s alternative asset opportunities practice brings together a cross-disciplinary asset management and transactional team that advises on bespoke and complex transactions across multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, credit, real estate, venture capital, and infrastructure. Our practice regularly represents sophisticated institutional investors globally, including sovereign wealth funds, secondary buyers, and asset managers.
Our alternative asset opportunities practice focuses on transactions for our global investor clients, including:
- Investments as part of fund and operating company recapitalizations
- Joint ventures
- Secondaries
- Separately managed account arrangements
- Investments in management companies/GP stakes
Ropes & Gray’s alternative asset opportunities practice is highly ranked by Chambers Global.
Awards

Ranked Band 1 for Private Equity: Secondaries, Chambers USA – Nationwide 2024
Ropes & Gray has been ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA – Nationwide 2024 for Private Equity: Secondaries. The firm makes regular appearances in the secondary market's most sophisticated and prominent transactions, most often on behalf of buy-side investors. The firm offers an international pool of experts in the US, Europe and Asia, who have an excellent track record in advising on portfolio sales, fund recapitalizations, preferred equity deals and wider transactional work.

Ranked Band 1 for Investment Funds: Investor Representation, Chambers USA – Nationwide 2024
Ropes & Gray has been ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA – Nationwide 2024 for Investment Funds: Investor Representation. Ropes & Gray has an established team that is respected for its advice to institutional investors, including pension funds, funds of funds and foundations.

Ranked Band 1 for Investment Funds: Investor Representation, Chambers Global: USA 2024
Ropes & Gray has been ranked Band 1 in Chambers Global: USA 2024 for Investment Funds: Investor Representation. Ropes & Gray has an established team that is respected for its advice to institutional investors, including pension funds, funds of funds and foundations.

