Ropes & Gray LLP

Renowned for its cross-border capabilities, the team Ropes & Gray LLP provide clients with full-service capabilities with regard to fund formation, operational and regulatory matters. With recent developments within the tech sector, the team has adapted its practice to include advice on matters related to cryptocurrency, insider trading issues around alternative data sources, and novel operational issues. The team is co-led by San Francisco and Silicone Valley based Melissa Bender and New York’s Marc Biamonte. Bender’s practice concerns private credit and debt, with particular experience in raising closed-end, open-end, hybrid and evergreen funds while Biamonte assists general partners with fundraising across a diverse range of fund types, including buyout, venture, hedge, and special focus funds. Leigh Fraser , sitting across Boston and New York, has extensive experience assisting with the formation of onshore and offshore open-end and closed-end private funds advises such entities on an ongoing basis with regulatory matters and the structuring of new investment products. Based in New York, Laurel FitzPatrick advises on credit fund formations across an impressive range of fund types including evergreen, treaty and rated notes structures, as well as traditional closed end credit funds while Sarah Davidoff , who is also based in New York, is well regarded with the alternative asset management space, guiding clients on aspects of raising and operating their buyout, credit, growth equity and venture capital funds. Laura Hirst is also a key contact in Boston, offering guidance across a variety of private investment funds and investment strategies.