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Ropes & Gray
The ‘top-notch’ team at Ropes & Gray LLP attracts considerable praise from clients, who turn to the team for its wide-ranging capabilities across various competition matters, ranging from merger control and FDI clearances to conduct, compliance and antitrust counselling. The team is routinely engaged by blue-chip corporates, pharmaceutical companies and private equity clients on complex multi-jurisdictional merger control matters. Practice head Ruchit Patel is a key port of call for some of the word’s largest companies on matters before the CMA and European Commission.
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Testimonials
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‘The EU competition team at Ropes is top notch. They are lean and nimble and always able to provide the services we need, and often very quickly. They have taken the time to educate our in-house team on the subject and provide close guidance on the process.’
'Ruchit Patel stands out for his quick thinking on day-to-day matters, combined with an enviable ability to provide bigger picture strategic advice. Lisa Kalttenbrunner is very capable and polished.'
‘Lisa Kaltenbrunner is an expert at anti-trust analysis across more jurisdictions than I can count. She is an incredible source for market practice, the nuances of the regulations and the risk-based decisions to be made.’
Key clients
- Adaptimmune
- Altice USA, Inc.
- America’s Test Kitchen
- Apollo Therapeutics Limited
- Bloomberg, Inc.
- Datavan
- Envision Pharma Group
- Focusrite PLC
- Fortis Life Sciences
- Galderma Laboratories LP
- Ginkgo Bioworks
- Google LLC
- HUTCHMED
- ImmunoGen, Inc.
- Jounce Therapeutics
- Kioxia Corporation
- Liberty Global
- McAfee Corp.
- Medtronic plc
- Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
- Monster Energy Company
- Novartis
- Pfizer Inc.
- Provention Bio
- Sanofi S.A.
- Sarepta Therapeutics
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- System C
- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
- The Wittur Group
- Zai Lab Limited
- Zoetis Inc.
- 3i Group plc
- Advent International Corporation
- AEA Investors LP
- Altamont Capital Partners
- American Industrial Partners
- Angelo Gordon & Co., L.P.
- Audax Group
- Avista Capital Partners L.P.
- Bain Capital, LP
- Bain Capital Credit
- Baring Private Equity Asia
- BDT Capital Partners, LLC
- Berkshire Partners LLC
- Bridgepoint Advisers II Limited
- Cinven
- Genstar Capital LLC
- GHO Capital Partners LLP
- GI Partners
- H.I.G Capital, LLC
- Invesco Ltd.
- Kohlberg & Company LLC
- Sightway Capital
- Silver Lake Partners LP
- Sixth Street Partners LLC
- TPG Inc.
- TSG Consumer Partners LLC
- Two Sigma Investments, LP
- Xerox
Work highlights
- Advised on all antitrust issues on two major transactions for Pfizer, including its $5.4bn acquisition of Global Blood Therapeutics and its $11.6bn acquisition of Biohaven Pharmaceuticals.
- Advised Medtronic Inc., a leader on the global medical technology market, on the antitrust aspects of its $1.1bn acquisition of Intersect ENT, a well-known publicly traded healthcare equipment company, and its acquisition of Affera, a developer of medical devices designed to treat cardiac arrhythmias.
- Advised TPG on the merger control and foreign direct investment aspects of several transactions, including the sale of Immucor, inc. to Werfen for approximately $2bn and its $4bn joint acquisition of Covetrus.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Ruchit Patel