Ropes & Gray
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| Headquarters | Prudential Tower Boston, Massachusetts United States |
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| No. of offices | 16 |
| No. of attorneys | ~1,600 (2025) |
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| Revenue | $3.14 billion (2025) |
| Date founded | 1865 |
| Founder | John Codman Ropes John Chipman Gray |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | ropesgray |
Ropes & Gray LLP is an American multinational law firm with 16 offices across the United States, Asia, and Europe. The firm has over 1,500 lawyers and around 1,300 professionals worldwide, its clients include corporations, financial institutions, government agencies, universities, and health care organizations. It was founded in 1865 in Boston by John Codman Ropes and John Chipman Gray.
History
[edit]Early years and founding (1865 - early 1900s)
[edit]The firm was founded in 1865 by two Harvard Law School graduates, John Codman Ropes and John Chipman Gray, Jr.. In 1878, William Loring, also a Harvard graduate, joined the firm, and it was renamed "Ropes, Gray and Loring" until Loring's departure in 1899, when he was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.[1][2] The firm was renamed again in 1899 as "Ropes, Gray and Gorham" with the addition of Robert Gorham. Following Gorham’s death, the firm was renamed Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins in 1914.
The firm represented the New York and New England Railroad during that time.[1] Another client was the founders’ alma mater, Harvard College.
In 1929, Ropes-Gray (as it was known at the time) established a Paris office, but it was closed in 1932, a victim of the Depression. Along with the rest of the country, the 1930s brought economic hardship that led to a reduction in staff size, particularly among associates. Despite the downturn, the firm managed to weather the crisis thanks in part to creative internal policies, such as senior partners forgoing compensation temporarily to retain junior staff.
Mid-20th century to late 20th century (1900s - 1990s)
[edit]The firm grew in response to historical events during the 20th century. This included developing a bankruptcy practice during the Great Depression, a labor practice as a result of the New Deal, and adding financial reports to its services after the creation of the SEC.[3]
In 1940, the firm's name was changed to Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge & Rugg. Recognizing the weight of tradition and the desire for longevity, the firm made the decision in 1961 to readopt its original name, "Ropes & Gray."[4]
In 1942, a book written by Albert Boyden, which chronicles the history of the firm, was published under the title Ropes-Gray, 1865-1940.[5]
21st century global expansion (2000s - present)
[edit]In 2003, the firm acquired New York City based private equity law firm Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt & Maynard.[6] In 2005, it acquired NYC-based intellectual property law firm Fish & Neave.[7] Two years later, the firm opened its first international office in Tokyo.[8][9] This was followed by an office opening in London in 2010.[10]
In 2012, the Korean Bar Association approved Ropes & Gray as the first Foreign Legal Consultant Office in Korean history, allowing the firm to open an office in Seoul.[11][12] This was the firm’s 11th office.[12] By this time, Ropes & Gray had 1,100 lawyers and had expanded its presence in Asia with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and in Tokyo.[12]
Ropes & Gray was commissioned by the U.S. Olympic Committee to independently investigate Larry Nassar's abuses.[13] The firm released its report, "The Constellation of Factors Underlying Larry Nassar's Abuse of Athletes," in December 2018.[13]
In 2017, the firm elected Julie Jones as chair. After serving as chair-elect for two years, Jones took the helm in 2020.[14] In 2024, as Jones was re-elected to another five-year term, Neill Jakobe was elected to serve a five-year term as vice chair.[15]
In 2023, the firm opened an office in Dublin, Ireland.[16] Later that year, in July, Ropes & Gray announced the relocation of some Shanghai-based lawyers to its Hong Kong operation and the launch of an office in Singapore.[17][18] In November 2023, amid antisemitic incidents at elite U.S. law schools,[19][20][21] Ropes & Gray was among a group of major law firms that sent a letter to top law school deans warning them that an escalation in incidents targeting Jewish students would have corporate hiring consequences. The letter stated: "We look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses."[22]
In 2024, the firm jumped from 24th to 16th in the London Stock Exchange Group's global M&A legal advisor rankings. This was due to the firm working on more than 200 deals worth $136.8 billion.[16]
In September 2025, Ropes & Gray opened its fourth European office, this time an office in Milan.[23] This brought the company’s global office count to 15: 7 U.S. offices (Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Palo Alto) and offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore, Dublin, London, Paris, and Milan.[16][24]
Leadership
[edit]Since 2020, Julie H. Jones has served as Chair of Ropes & Gray, becoming the first woman to lead the firm.[25] A member of the firm's management committee since 2011, Jones was re-elected in September 2024 to a second five-year term as chair.[15]
Practice areas
[edit]Ropes & Gray's major practice areas include:
- Antitrust[26][27][3]
- Appellate Practice[27]
- Asset Management[26][3]
- Business Restructuring[26]
- Capital Markets[28][26]
- Corporate Law[27]
- Data, Privacy, & Cybersecurity[27][3]
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law[28][26]
- Employment Law[27]
- Finance[26][3]
- Healthcare[26][27][3]
- Life Sciences[28][26]
- Intellectual Property[28][3]
- Investment Banking[26]
- Investment Management[28]
- Litigation & Enforcement[28][27][26][3]
- Mergers & Acquisitions[28][27][26][3]
- Private Equity[28][3][26]
- Real Estate Law[28][27][3]
- Securities[27][3]
- Tax Law[3][27]
- Technology[28][26]
Prominent transactions
[edit]Ropes & Gray lawyers have advised on business transactions including:
2008
[edit]- The acquisition by private equity firms Thomas H. Lee and Bain Capital of Clear Channel Communications, for $26 billion[29]
- Bain Capital's and the Blackstone Group's acquisition of The Weather Channel, in a multibillion-dollar deal[30]
2009
[edit]- Bain Capital's acquisition of Bellsystem24[31]
- TPG Capital and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board's $5.2 billion acquisition of IMS Health Inc., a provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and health care industries[32]
2010
[edit]- Genzyme Corporation's $2.9 billion deal with Bayer Schering Pharma AG expanded Genzyme's oncology portfolio by giving the company rights to market cancer drugs and control a program in multiple sclerosis. The transaction was recognized as a "Deal of Distinction" by the Licensing Executives Society in September 2010[33]
- NSTAR's merger with Northeast Utilities for $7.1 billion[34]
- TPG Capital's acquisition of J.Crew for $3 billion[35]
- The Bare Escentuals merger with Shiseido of Japan, a $1.7 billion deal[36]
2011
[edit]- Bain Capital's acquisition of MYOB, Australia's largest financial software developer[37]
- Genzyme's acquisition by Sanofi-Aventis, for $20.1 billion[38]
2012
[edit]- China Everbright's acquisition of Focus Media for $3.7 billion[39]
- Berkshire Partners' acquisition of Lightower Fiber Networks and Sidera Networks for $2 billion[40]
2017
[edit]- Crown Castle International’s acquisition of Lightower Fiber Networks for about $7.1 billion[41]
- Genstar Capital investment in Alera Group[42]
2018
[edit]- Bain Capital's 2018 sale by Toshiba Corp. of its semiconductor business to a group that included Apple, Seagate, Kingston, Hoya, Dell Technologies, and SK Hynix. The transaction was Asia's largest leveraged buyout and private equity deal ever, and was valued at approximately $18 billion[43]
2020
[edit]- Inspire Brands' acquisition of Dunkin' Donuts, for $11.3 billion[44]
2021
[edit]- Altimeter Growth Corp., in its merger to take Grab public for $39.6 billion, the largest special-purpose acquisition company merger in history[45]
2022
[edit]- Nippon Steel Corporation's 2023 definitive agreement to purchase U.S. Steel for $14 billion[46]
2025
[edit]- Evident Corporation $1.8B sale of Inspection Technologies division to Wabtec Corporation[47][48]
- New Mountain Capital And Francisco Partners growth investment in Office Ally[49][50]
- NIQ Global Intelligence $1.1B initial public offering[51]
Prominent cases
[edit]Ropes & Gray lawyers have litigated high-profile cases, including:
- Defending physicians’ First Amendment rights in Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida. The case concerned a Florida law banning doctors from inquiring about patients’ gun ownership.[52]
- Representing Gawker in its Chapter 11 filing.[53]
- Leading a 10-month independent investigation for the U.S. Olympic Committee into sexual abuses by former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar.[54]
- Representing Willkie Farr & Gallagher (then) co-chairman Gordon Caplan, JD, who was arrested in March 2019 as a parent participant in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. Caplan is represented by firm partners Joshua Levy, co-chairman of global litigation and enforcement practice, and Michael McGovern, co-chairman of government enforcement practice.[55] A guilty plea deal in United States v. Gordon Caplan was filed by United States Attorney Andrew Lelling on March 27, 2019.[56][57] An Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting the case, Leslie Wright, is a Ropes & Gray alumna.[58]
- Representing Harris Associates in a seminal case for the mutual funds industry. In March 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. Harris Associates, which established the standard governing claims of excessive mutual fund fees under § 36(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940.[59]
- Defending former BP engineer Kurt Mix against obstruction of justice charges related to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[60]
- Representing the plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges. Attorney Doug Hallward-Driemeier argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that states must recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.[61][62][63][64][65]
Recognition
[edit]In 2025, the firm was ranked across numerous practice areas in Chambers Global[28] and Chambers USA[66] and was listed in Vault’s Best Law Firms to Work For.[67] The firm received an IFLR Americas Award for advising on First Quantum Minerals’ $1.6 billion high-yield offering, the largest mining high-yield deal in a decade.[68] LMG Life Sciences recognized the firm as Licensing & Collaboration Firm of the Year in the Americas in 2024[69][70] and Venture Capital Firm of the Year in the EMEA region in 2025.[71] The American Lawyer ranked Ropes & Gray second on its A-List in 2025, its fourth consecutive year in the top three.[72]
Notable current and former attorneys
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Founding & Named Partners
[edit]- John Chipman Gray (founding partner), property law scholar and half-brother of Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray
- John Codman Ropes (founding partner), military historian
- William Loring (named partner), Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Harvard Law School professor, and general counsel of the New York and New England Railroad
Current partners
[edit]- Mark Barnes (partner), activist, academic, former Chief Research Compliance Officer at Harvard University[73][74]
- Neill Jakobe - Vice Chair, private-equity partner, member of management committee, previously led Ropes & Gray’s Chicago office and was co-head of the firm’s global private equity practice[15][75]
- Julie Jones - M&A partner, Chair, and the first woman to lead Ropes & Gray[15][25]
- Joshua S. Levy (partner), United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts[76]
- Jane Willis (partner), a member of the MIT Blackjack Team fictionalized in Bringing Down the House and 21[77]
- R. Bradford Malt (chairman, 2004–19), sole trustee of Mitt Romney’s blind trusts during his tenure as Governor and two presidential campaigns.[78]
- Doug Hallward-Driemeier, managing partner of Ropes & Gray's Washington, D.C. office, graduate of Oxford University and Harvard Law School, represented the plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges[61][62][63][65][64]
Former partners
[edit]- Eleanor D. Acheson (associate 1974–83; partner, 1983–93), Amtrak executive and Assistant Attorney General of the United States[79]
- Stephen L. Braga (partner), criminal defense attorney known for successful pro bono representation of Martin Tankleff[80]
- Diane Bemus Patrick (partner), First Lady of Massachusetts (2007–15)[81]
- Elliot Richardson (associate, 1949–53, 1955–57; partner, 1961–65), U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1970–73), U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973), U.S. Attorney General (1973), U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1975–76), and U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1976–77)[82]
- John Richardson (1911–1970s; hiring partner), Republican National Committeeman from Massachusetts (1932–36)
- James Vorenberg (associate, 1954–60; partner, 1960–62), Dean of the Faculty of Law of Harvard University[83]
- Dalila Argaez Wendlandt (partner), Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court[84]
- Keith Wofford (partner), candidate for New York Attorney General in 2018[85]
Judiciary Association
[edit]- Michael P. Allen, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims[86]
- Janis M. Berry (partner, 1986–97), Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court
- Levin H. Campbell, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- Jennifer Choe-Groves, Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
- Bessie Dewar (associate), Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Olin M. Jeffords (associate, 1919–21), Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
Government and Political Association (Executive & Legislative Branches, Public Service Roles)
[edit]- Michael J. Astrue, associate (1984–85), poet, and Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
- William Birdthistle (associate, 2001–06), director of the Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Investment Management
- Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts
- Allison G. Catheron, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Archibald Cox (associate, 1938–45), U.S. Solicitor General and special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal
- John Demers (associate, 2000–03), United States Associate Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice National Security Division
- Rebecca Haffajee (associate), acting Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation
- George S. Hawkins, general manager of the DC Water and Sewer Authority
- Horace Hildreth, 59th Governor of Maine
- Nikolas P. Kerest (associate, 2001–04), United States Attorney for the District of Vermont
- Cheryl LaFleur, commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Henry Cabot Lodge (associate, 1875–80), United States Senator from Massachusetts
- Heather Sanborn, member of the Maine Senate
- Henry Lee Shattuck, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, member of the Boston City Council, and philanthropist
- Christopher Taylor (associate), Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Robert Troyer (associate, 1990–93), United States Attorney for the District of Colorado
- Louis C. Wyman, (associate) United States Senator and United States Representative from New Hampshire
- Henry Adams, historian and member of the Adams political family
- Brooks Adams, historian and member of the Adams political family
- George H. Lyman (associate), chairman of the Massachusetts Republican state committee and Collector of the Port of Boston
- Frederick Charles Lough, decorated veteran of World War II and brigadier general in the United States Army
Academia/education
[edit]- Yochai Benkler (associate, 1994–95), professor at Harvard Law School
- Robert C. Clark (associate, 1972–74), Dean of the Faculty of Law at Harvard University
- Lee M. Friedman (associate, 1895–97), lawyer and historian
- Theodore Ruger, dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
- Clayton Spencer (associate, 1986–1989), president of Bates College
- David O. Stewart, author
Other notable fields/diverse disciplines
[edit]- Marta Belcher (attorney), blockchain law pioneer
- Eric Bjornlund, co-founder of Democracy International
- John F. Bok (associate, 1955–c. 1960s), an influential Boston municipal lawyer
- Joan Toland Bok (associate, 1955–59), chair of New England Electric and director of Avery Dennison
- Isabelle Kinsolving (associate, 2012–22), member of the 2004 United States Olympic rowing team
- John Kingston III (associate), general counsel of Affiliated Managers Group and candidate for United States Senate in 2018
- John Palfrey (associate, 2001–02), president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Charles Soule, comic book writer for Marvel Comics
See also
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