Ropes & Gray LLP

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Chair: Julie H. Jones
Managing Partner: David Djaha
Number of partners: 300
Number of lawyers: 1,600
Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Others
Greater China Offices: Hong Kong, Shanghai
International Offices: Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.

Firm Overview
Ropes & Gray is one of the world’s most respected law firms, with offices in key business and financial centres throughout Asia, the U.S. and Europe. The firm’s Greater China-based attorneys counsel global, Chinese and Asian corporate clients, investment banks, and many of the world’s largest private equity funds on a wide range of complex legal matters that span industries and geographies.

The firm’s lawyers in China focus on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, special situations, finance, restructuring, capital markets, intellectual property, life sciences, real estate, anti-corruption, and securities enforcement and litigation.

The team offers clients in-depth local market knowledge and a global perspective from a fully integrated team that seamlessly represents clients around the world.

Main Areas of Practice

• Corporate and M&A

• Disputes/Anti-Corruption

• Finance

• Fund Formation

• Hedge Funds

• Intellectual Property

• Life Sciences

• Private Equity

• Restructuring & Insolvency

Corporate/M&A:
The China-based M&A team focuses on advising public and private companies, private equity funds and financial institutions in inbound and outbound and complex cross-border transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, securities offerings and other capital raising activities.
Contacts: Peng Yu, Oliver Nip

Disputes & Anti-Corruption:
The team has deep experience guiding clients through all manner of investigations, enforcement actions, and compliance issues. The China team is a trusted partner both before and after the commencement of enforcement activity. Clients look to the team to conduct sensitive internal investigations and to provide counselling on risk assessment, prevention and compliance.
Contacts: Geoffrey M. Atkins, Andrew J. Dale

Finance:
The China finance team has established itself as the preeminent and most active sponsor-side leveraged finance practice. Through the firm’s seamless integration with its teams globally, Ropes & Gray has an unrivalled, on-the-ground understanding of Chinese, Asian, European and U.S. deal structures across the entire capital structure.
Contacts: Daniel Anderson, Jackie Kahng

Fund Formation:
The investment funds team has earned a place as lead adviser on many of the largest fund mandates across the Greater China and Asian markets in recent years, earning a position of trust among domestic venture capital funds. The team has become one of the largest and most experienced private funds groups operating in Asia in collaboration with asset management teams around the globe.
Contacts: Vincent W. Ip, Chune Loong Lum

Intellectual Property:
The firm is a go-to adviser in intellectual property matters on both transactions and litigation. With a particular strength in life sciences and technology, this group draws on its deep knowledge of U.S. IP law for effective client representation.
Contact: Geoffrey Lin

Life Sciences:
With the life sciences sector across China and Asia undergoing a surge in investor interest, this team has based its services on the premise that the ability to access top tier M&A, private equity, regulatory and IP legal advice is critical to client success. The team works seamlessly across practices and jurisdictions to serve its life sciences clients.
Contacts: Arthur Mok, Katherine Wang, Eric Wu

Private Equity:
Ropes & Gray’s global private equity team has steered some of China and Asia’s largest private equity deals, setting records for deal size and complexity. The firm offers experienced counsel in every area of private equity sector activity and is active in market-leading deals across the Greater China region.
Contacts: Peng Yu, Oliver Nip

Restructuring & Insolvency:
Ropes & Gray advises some of Asia’s leading investors in a broad range of restructuring and insolvency transactions. Its clients include the special situations groups at top-tier financial institutions, the private debt arms of global private equity funds, and global and regional hedge funds. The firm’s coordinated capabilities in finance, private equity, restructuring and capital markets enables it to structure and execute transactions across a group’s capital structure.
Contact: Daniel Anderson