News About Ropes & Gray

Ropes & Gray recruits Paul Weiss financial services co-chief in Washington DC

Jarryd Anderson joins as head of financial services with federal reserve and deal experience, as bank M&A activity rebounds

23 Jun 2026

Trio of firms guide GSK’s $10.6bn US cancer drug maker buy

Davis Polk and Slaughter and May advise GSK as Ropes & Gray counsels target Nuvalent

10 Jun 2026

Kirkland hires from three firms for Tokyo launch

M&A and debt finance trio join from MoFo, White & Case and Ropes for Chicago giant’s first Asian office outside Greater China

1 Jun 2026

Ropes & Gray hires eight-lawyer M&A and PE team in Paris from Latham

Group led by three veteran Latham partners significantly expands Paris office Ropes opened last year targeting private capital work

25 Mar 2026

Ropes & Gray, Wilson Sonsini guide Gilead’s $7.8bn cancer drugmaker acquisition

Ropes acts for Gilead as Wilson Sonsini counsels target Arcellx in deal that comes as pharmaceutical groups rush to buy smaller rivals with proven drug pipelines

24 Feb 2026

Ropes & Gray expands in Paris with private funds and tax team from Linklaters

Incoming team include partners Edouard Chapellier and Jonathan Abensour

27 Jan 2026

Ropes & Gray, Kirkland & Ellis lead EQT’s $3.7bn buyout of Coller Capital

Deal understood to be the largest-ever acquisition of a secondaries fund manager

22 Jan 2026

Ropes & Gray appoints ex-Meta exec as head of AI strategy

Gretchen Greene appointed chief of artificial intelligence strategy to accelerate the firm’s use of the technology

12 Dec 2025

Ropes & Gray PE partner duo exit in London

Dan Oates and Angela Becker to join Akin according to reports, following other senior defections from Ropes’ London PE team this year

7 Nov 2025

Quartet of firms lead Hologic’s $18.3bn take private by Blackstone and TPG

Kirkland, Wachtell, Ropes and Sidley advise on largest medical devices deal in almost two decades

22 Oct 2025

Latham builds US restructuring bench with Ropes & Gray partner trio

Ropes’ business restructuring chair, Ryan Dahl, leads team move across New York and Chicago

20 Oct 2025

Trio of firms called in for Fortegra’s $1.65bn sale to South Korean insurer DB Insurance

Ropes & Gray and Sidley Austin advise Fortegra as Latham & Watkins guides DB Insurance

26 Sep 2025

Ropes & Gray’s IP litigation chair takes 20-lawyer team to Sheppard Mullin

Group joins across US and in Seoul as Sheppard Mullin moves to build preeminent IP practice

19 Sep 2025

Ropes & Gray hits Kirkland for M&A partner in New York growth push

Michael Brueck joins after 15 years as a partner at Kirkland where he led on deals for Danaher, GLP and Evercore

18 Sep 2025

Ropes & Gray debuts in Milan with Latham PE team

US firm doubles down on Europe with second launch on the continent in six months

10 Sep 2025

Freshfields adds London PE real estate duo from Ropes & Gray

Partners David Seymour and Will Bryant join as UK firm looks to grow offering across full range of private capital and strategic investors in real estate sector

23 Jul 2025

Weil adds private equity secondaries partner from Ropes & Gray in London

Simon Saitowitz, noted for developing liquidity techniques for asset managers, is third partner to join office this year

11 Apr 2025

Ropes & Gray debuts in Paris with Clifford Chance team

Team led by trio of partners focuses on private equity, infrastructure, banking and finance transactions

12 Mar 2025

Simpson Thacher builds out in Boston with hires from Cooley, Ropes & Gray

Recently launched office bolstered with two partners practising across private funds and government investigations

20 Feb 2025

Raft of firms called in for $14.5bn Nord Anglia acquisition

Latham, Cravath, Ropes and Debevoise act on international school operator’s acquisition by consortium

22 Oct 2024