Overview
Single-Source and Tailored Solutions
In real estate, there is no one size fits all solution. Our unique team approach combines significant experience from a wide range of disciplines and industries. Drawing on the vast knowledge, resources and experience of our firm’s highly experienced attorneys and integrated practice groups, we offer our clients the comprehensive range of legal services required to identify opportunities, manage risks and succeed in today’s volatile global real estate market. Our clients receive the benefit and peace of mind that comes from a coordinated approach to their real estate, private equity, finance, tax, ERISA, investment and environmental issues.
We provide practical, innovative solutions to a variety of domestic and international real estate-based transactions, and we identify opportunities and manage risk with a keen eye towards achieving our clients’ business goals.
We have more than 100 legal professionals working in our multidisciplinary team, including over 60 attorneys who have a core focus on real estate issues. With 11 offices across three continents, the group represents clients in a broad range of complex, high-profile real estate transactions in the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, Asia and other jurisdictions.
Our areas of focus include:
- Acquisitions, sales & leasing
- Environmental development & management
- Equity & debt investment structures
- Financing, refinancing & capital markets
- Special situations
Clients & Awards
Our clients include:
- Abrams Capital
- ACORE
- Allianz
- APG
- Apollo
- Bain Capital
- Baupost Group
- BioMed Realty
- Blackstone
- Brookfield Asset Management
- Grosvenor Capital Management
- HIG Capital
- HOOPP
- IMCO
- KKR
- Mack Real Estate Group
- MSD Partners
- Oaktree Capital Management
- Partners Group
- PGGM
- PIMCO
- QuadReal
- Related
- Siguler Guff
- TPG
- UBS
Ropes & Gray’s real estate investments and transactions group has received recognition from a number of industry publications and ranking companies, including:
- Legal 500 US – Ranked nationally for Real Estate, with multiple attorneys recommended as leaders in the field (2013 – 2025)
- Chambers USA – Ranked as a leading Real Estate practice nationally (2022 – 2025) and in Massachusetts (2013 – 2025) and New York (2021 – 2025), with multiple attorneys recognized as leaders in the field
- Best Lawyers Best Law Firms in America – Ranked nationally (2012 – 2025) and in Massachusetts (2012 – 2025) and New York (2016 – 2024) for “Real Estate Law”
- Boston Real Estate Times Excellence Awards – Named “Law Firm of the Year” (2025)
- Legal 500 UK – Ranked as a leading “Commercial property: investment” and “Property finance” practice with a ranked leading partner, a next generation partner and one attorney recommended as a rising star (2016 – 2025)
- Law360 Rising Stars – One real estate attorney named to this list of lawyers whose accomplishments belies their age (2014, 2015, 2025)
- Crain’s New York Business – One lawyer recognized as a “Notable Leader in Real Estate” (2024)
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly – Massachusetts Go To Commercial Real Estate Lawyers (2021)
- New York Law Journal – One real estate attorney listed as a “Rising Star” in the publication (2015)
- Real Estate Forum 50 under 40 – Two real estate attorneys individually recognized in the publication in back-to-back years (2015-2016)
