What do we do?
Ropes & Gray LLP’s High Technology initiative is a cross-practice group effort that serves companies that invent, develop, manufacture, service and/or sell technology good and services, as well companies that consume high technology goods and services, and investors and lenders who buy, sell and finance these organizations. We represent a wide range of industries including the telecom and wireless sectors, energy and Cleantech companies, SaaS, software and hardware, semiconductor and robotics companies.

• Represented TravelCLICK in ongoing complex strategic alliance, licensing, outsourcing, developmental and collaboration arrangements, domestic and international.
• Represented American Express in crafting an ultra complex marketing alliances and collaboration agreements in tandem with its strategic investment in Concur Technologies Inc, the world’s leading provider of end-to-end solutions that seamlessly unite online travel booking with automated expense reporting.
• Represented State Street Corporation in its $900 million sale of its joint venture with CitiGroup Inc. to ING Group.
• Represented Bain Capital in its investment in LinkedIn, from legal and intellectual property due diligence, to structuring access to certain intellectual property assets and to the actual transaction itself.
• Represented Silver Lake, a private equity fund, in its acquisition of Sungard Data Systems.
• Represented Avaya in its $915 million acquisition of Nortel's enterprise solutions business.
• Initial public offering of LogMeIn, Inc., provider of on-demand, remote-connectivity, and support solutions to small businesses, IT service providers, and consumers.
• Represented ARC International, an multi-media technology company, in their acquisition of a start-up company with an innovative consumer electronic technology platform.