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Practicing law in Chicago presents many unique opportunities to our associates. As the largest city in the Midwest and the third largest city in the United States, Chicago is not only a key legal market, but a preeminent center for business and finance. Centrally located in the heart of the "Loop" financial district, nestled between the Chicago River and Lake Michigan and surrounded by Chicago's "L" trains, our office is an easy commute for professionals. The court houses, the futures and options exchanges and the Federal Reserve Bank are all within a few blocks of each other. |
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Associates in Ropes & Gray's Chicago office have the opportunity to work with an impressive list of clients in the following practice areas:
Ropes & Gray is one of the few global firms that makes serving the needs of private equity clients a major focus. For more than 25 years, our lawyers have regularly represented all of the various participants in the formation of private equity funds, including leveraged private equity sponsors, investors and placement agents. We have one of the largest and most sophisticated private investment fund practices in the country. Structuring these funds requires an intimate familiarity with the relevant securities and commodities rules, and a significant amount of tax, ERISA, and industry knowledge. We represent a large number of university endowments, foundations, funds of funds, pension funds, and other institutional investors in hundreds of private equity, mezzanine, venture, CDO, hedge, and other funds. We have one of the nation’s leading practices advising transaction sponsors and other participants in all aspects of leveraged acquisitions and related private equity transactions, including:
Our Securities and Public Companies Practice provides advice to clients with sophisticated corporate, securities and transactional law issues. We represent clients in all facets of public company and capital markets. While each client has specific needs, all of our clients benefit from our expertise centered around four major areas:
Ropes & Gray's Investment Management Practice is among the largest and most diversified of any law firm. We serve as regular counsel for more than 900 mutual funds (or their independent directors or trustees). The principal focus of our practice in Chicago is the representation of investment advisers, commodity trading advisors, hedge fund sponsors, commodity pool operators and their service providers. We represent numerous fund sponsors in the organization and offering of alternative investment fund products, both U.S. and off-shore vehicles. In addition to our regular representation of investment advisers and commodity trading advisors, we have an active mergers and acquisitions practice representing buyers and sellers of money management businesses. |
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In addition to our general Commercial Litigation practice in Chicago, the Chicago office's Government Enforcement Group handles a wide array of criminal and regulatory matters. We represent both corporations and individuals in criminal cases, internal investigations and regulatory enforcement proceedings. The Group also assist clients in developing compliance programs and employee training so that companies remain up to date on recent enforcement trends. Consistently ranked as one of the top IP litigation practices nationwide, our dynamic IP Litigation Group has multiple trials in progress at any time. We litigate intellectual property cases across the country and counsel in the areas of patents, trade secrets, trademarks and unfair competition on a world wide basis. We represent numerous major corporations in patent litigation in a wide variety of industries, including the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. |
Click here to see the 2010 NALP form for the Chicago office