John Ayer > Ropes & Gray LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Ropes & Gray LLP Offices
800 BOYLSTON STREET
BOSTON, MA 02199
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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John Ayer
Work Department
Asset Management
Position
Partner
Career
https://www.ropesgray.com/en/biographies/a/john-b-ayer?AK=John%20Ayer
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
Ropes & Gray LLP has a strong investor and sponsor side private funds practice that covers endowments, fund of funds and sovereign wealth funds across diverse asset classes, particularly buyout, venture capital, credit and real estate. Four practitioners oversee the team; In New York Morri Weinberg advises clients on primary, secondary and co-investment private funds, in San Francisco is Melissa Bender, who works with funds using novel hybrid structures, while in Boston jointly leading are Leigh Fraser and Peter Laybourn, with the latter advising on domestic and international fund formations, fundraising, and transactions. Marc Biamonte and John Ayer are further key points of contact, in New York and Boston respectively. The asset management group grew in 2023 with the additions of Warren Goodworth from Kirkland & Ellis LLP in May and Jonathan Rash from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in November, while in the same month Catherine Skulan was made partner.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism