Awards
Ropes & Gray’s work in Asia has quickly garnered recognition by clients and independent reviewers, including:
- Chambers Asia-Pacific, Chambers Greater China, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, IFLR 1000: Ranked year after year in the Asia-Pacific region as leaders within Greater China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and India in:
- Banking and Finance
- Capital Markets
- Corporate/M&A
- Disputes/Anti-Corruption & Compliance
- Intellectual Property
- Investment Funds
- Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Private Equity/ Venture Capital
- Regulatory/ Compliance
- Restructuring/Insolvency
- China Law & Practice Awards 2022 – “Equity Securities Deal of the Year” for LianBio IPO.
- India Business Law Journal 2022 – “Top Foreign Firms 2022” list.
- The Asia Legal Awards 2022:
- “M&A Deal of the Year: South and South East Asia” for advising Altimeter Growth Corp in Grab Holdings' US$40 billion SPAC deal and listing.
- “Private Equity Deal of the Year”- for advising MBK Partners in the US$1.5 billion sale of Apex Logistics to global logistics firm Kuehne & Nagel.
- China Business Law Journal Awards 2022: recognized for Pro-Bono, Asset management, IP (Patents), Private Equity & Venture Capital, Healthcare, pharma & life sciences.
- Asian Legal Business’ 2022 Asia IP Rankings: Patents, Tier 1 among international firms in China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea; Trademarks and Copyright, Tier 1 among international firms in China; Trademarks and Copyright, Tier 2 among international firms in Hong Kong and South Korea.
- Refinitiv’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Review 2021 – ranked among the top 10 legal advisers for M&A across the Asia Pacific.
- Asia Business Law Journal 2021 – “Top Asia-Related SPAC Legal Advisers of 2020-21” - ranked among the top 10 legal advisers to Asia-related SPACs for underwriters ranked by deal value and deal count.
- Mergermarket Asia Pacific M&A Legal Advisers, 1H 2021 -– ranked third in league tables for Asia Pacific mergers & acquisitions legal advisers by value, excluding Japan, in 1H 2021.
- Asian Legal Business’ 2021 IP Rankings: Patents, Tier 1 among international firms in China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea; Trademark and Copyright, Tier 1 in China; Trademark and Copyright, Tier 2 in Hong Kong and South Korea.
- Asian Legal Business’ 2020 IP Rankings – Patents, Tier 1 among international firms in China, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.
- China Business Law Journals’ 2020 China Business Law Awards:
- Practice Groups recognized: asset management, health care, pharmaceuticals & life sciences intellectual property matters, including patents.
- Mergermarket Japan M&A Awards 2020 – named “Private Equity Legal Adviser of the Year.”
- Asian Legal Business’ ALB Japan Law Awards 2019 – M&A Deal of the Year (Midsize): Baring Private Equity Asia’s Acquisition of Pioneer Corporation.
- Private Equity International 2020 Awards – named among Asia’s top three law firms in for fund formation and secondaries transactions.
- Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers 2019 – praised for innovation in Enabling Business Growth and Transformation for:
- Designing the governance structure for a joint venture between Alibaba Group and Switzerland-based luxury goods company Richemont.
- Advising Bain Capital on its simultaneous acquisition of U.S.-based packaging company World Wide Packaging and a leading Chinese cosmetics packaging manufacturer in advance of merging the two companies.
- IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2019 – “Private Equity Deal of the Year” for Bain Capital-led consortium’s $18 billion buyout of Toshiba Memory Corporation.
- IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2019 – “Private Equity Team of the Year”
- China Law & Practice 2019 Awards – “Outbound Deal of the Year” for advising Harbin Pharmaceutical’s $300 million investment in GNC Holdings.
- China Business Law Journal’s 2019 China Business Law Awards – recognized for mergers & acquisitions, restructuring & insolvency and intellectual property, including patents.
- Asian Legal Business’ 2019 IP Rankings – Patents, Tier 1 among international firms in China, Japan and South Korea.
- Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers 2018 – Winner for “Innovation in Legal Expertise: Managing Complexity and Scale” for Toshiba’s US$18 billion sale of its memory chip business.
- Asian Legal Business Japan Law Awards 2018 – “M&A Deal of the Year (Premium)”, “Technology, Media and Telecommunications Deal of the Year” and “Japan Deal of the Year” for Toshiba's US$18 billion sale of its memory chip business.
- Private Equity International 2018 Awards – named among Asia’s top three law firms for fund formation, transactions, and secondaries.
Ropes & Gray is very good, especially for highly structured matters where it is necessary to handle different stakeholders.
Chambers Asia