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Marta Kelly has joined Ropes & Gray as an antitrust partner in the New York office. Marta’s extensive experience advising on high-value, complex antitrust matters further enhances the firm’s ability to guide clients through competition and regulatory challenges in transactions worldwide. Please join the firm in welcoming her. To learn more about Marta, click here: https://lnkd.in/dFt5cuxR

Join Ropes & Gray in welcoming Noah Yavitz, who has joined the litigation & enforcement practice in the New York office. Noah brings deep experience across a broad range of complex commercial disputes, with a background in high-stakes merger litigation, federal securities actions, and derivative claims involving corporate fiduciaries. To learn more about Noah, click here: https://lnkd.in/dxxDdG9z

Ropes & Gray is pleased to welcome Michael P. McGuigan as a partner in its finance practice in the New York office. With over two decades of experience in fund finance and infrastructure development, Michael’s arrival strengthens the firm’s ability to meet growing client demand for sophisticated financing solutions across a broad spectrum of transactions and landmark projects. Learn more about Michael here: https://lnkd.in/drsW-b_n

Welcome new partners Edouard Chapellier and Jonathan Abensour, alongside a team of eight associates, who have joined the firm’s Paris office, strengthening its position as a firm with deep experience in fund formation and transactional matters across Europe and globally.   Edouard is recognized as one of France’s preeminent practitioners in both funds and tax, advising corporates, private equity firms, and investment banks on domestic and international tax matters, as well as all aspects of fund formation.   Jonathan has extensive experience advising on both the tax aspects of M&A and private equity transactions – including structuring – and on the full spectrum of fund formation matters for private equity and other fund clients.   Together, Edouard and Jonathan offer deep capabilities across fundraising, transactional, and tax matters, enhancing the firm’s ability to support clients in a broad range of matters and across sectors.

Health care partner David Peloquin and health care counsel Leslie Thornton, PhD, JD will present at the American Health Law Association 2026 Winter Institute: Advising Providers & AI in Health Care Conferences in Las Vegas on February 11–12. David will discuss regulatory and privacy considerations for AI in clinical research, while Leslie will address recent developments and future predictions in federal research funding for universities, academic medical centers, and research institutions. For more information: https://lnkd.in/e3NBPukh

The DOJ’s recent prosecution targeting global telehealth operations signals a significant expansion in criminal enforcement risk for telehealth providers and their partners. Read our latest alert for key takeaways: https://lnkd.in/etGq52HS

Litigation & enforcement partners Amy Jane Longo and Jeremiah Williams, CFA have been named to Securities Docket’s 2026 Advisory Board, continuing their service from 2025. Amy, Jeremiah, Eva C., and R Daniel O'Connor were also recognized as members of the 2025 Enforcement Elite. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eAg_jJB9

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Ropes & Gray is pleased to welcome Paul Dali as a partner in our London office, where he will focus on private equity and M&A. Paul’s extensive international experience, with a particular emphasis on private equity and asset management M&A transactions, strengthens our European platform and enhances our ability to deliver sophisticated private capital solutions for clients across Europe and globally. For more information, click here: https://lnkd.in/eUcqmm7K

Ropes & Gray has advised EQT Group on its acquisition of global secondaries firm Coller Capital, one of the world’s largest dedicated secondaries platforms, with $49 billion in total assets under management. The deal, which has a purchase price of $3.2 billion, is understood to be the largest-ever secondaries fund manager acquisition.   Ropes & Gray is proud to have worked alongside EQT to navigate the complex considerations that define transactions of this scale and sophistication. Congratulations to everyone involved.   The Ropes & Gray team was led by private equity transactions partners Ariel Deckelbaum, Shona Ha, Elizabeth Langton, and Neill Jakobe with support from associates Hayley Stokes-White, Lisa McJohn, Luke Wetmore, Alex Pattisson, Mike Augustyn, and Michael Asprou, and trainee Lauren Aurelius. Other members of the team included partners Scott Abramowitz, Ruchit Patel, Ama Adams, Chris Agnoli, Christopher Roman, Jen Cormier, Peter Laybourn, Katie Waite, Eve Ellis, Nicole Krea, Chelsea Childs, and Jordan Altman; associates Charlie Critchley, Connor Stevens, Katherine Fielding, Junsuk Lee, Charlie Voisey, Madeline Cooper, Sophie B. Duffy, Jonas Køster Madsen, Andrew McCall, Aliza S. Dominey, Tegan Shyne, and Jacob Green; and trainee Nyah Clark. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eY72xYit