International
The firm has opened offices since 2007 in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and London.
Chambers Global recognized Ropes & Gray in 15 practices, and the firm’s lawyers received 28 rankings in the 2011 edition of Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Chambers UK cited five Ropes & Gray practice areas, and Chambers Asia-Pacific recognized five Ropes & Gray practices in China and Japan.
The firm's work in Asia, which focuses on private equity, M&A, life sciences and intellectual property, has already received recognition. In 2010, for the second year in a row, Ropes & Gray received the Asian Legal Business “Technology, Media and Telecommunications Deal of the Year” award for Japan, for representing long-term client Bain Capital on its acquisition of Bellsystem24, the leading call center operator in Japan, in the largest buyout by a foreign private equity firm in Japan in nearly two years. Asian Legal Business also honored the firm's Hong Kong-based lawyers for their role in China's “M&A Deal of the Year,” GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd.’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Jiangsu Zhongneng. The firm also was recognized for having one of the leading patent firms in Japan by both Managing IP and Asia IP magazines.
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