Offering extensive expertise across a range of competition matters, the team at Ropes & Gray LLP maintains an active practice, advising on merger control, FDI clearances, conduct, compliance, and antitrust counseling. The team is frequently engaged by blue-chip corporates, pharmaceutical companies, and private equity clients on complex, multijurisdictional merger control matters. Practice head Ruchit Patel is a key adviser to some of the world’s largest companies on matters before the CMA and the European Commission.

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Key clients

  • Advent International
  • Avista Capital Partners
  • Bloomberg L.P.
  • Charlesbank Capital Partners
  • CIRCOR International
  • ImmunoGen
  • Liberty Global
  • MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
  • Monster Energy
  • Nippon Steel Corporation
  • PG Investment Services
  • Qorvo
  • TPG

Work highlights

  • Advised Bloomberg L.P. on its acquisition of Broadway Technology, LLC.
  • Advised Monster Energy in relation to its complaint to the European Commission against Red Bull’s alleged anticompetitive conduct in the energy drinks market across various EU Member States.
  • Advised Advent International and Warburg Pincus in their $4.25 billion co-investment in Baxter International Inc.’s BioPharma Solutions (BPS) business.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ruchit Patel

Other key lawyers

Lisa Kaltenbrunner, Dervla Broderick, Rupert Phillips, Anna Pugh, Vincenzo Volpe