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Ropes & Gray LLP Offices
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800 BOYLSTON STREET
BOSTON, MA 02199
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Elaine Murphy
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Work Department
Head of the firm’s tax, employment & benefits department
Position
Partner
Career
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Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Ropes & Gray LLP’s transactional tax team advises a wide range of clients, including public and private companies, private equity firms, tax-exempt organizations, and asset managers on the tax aspects of M&A, financings, restructurings, and spin-offs, among other issues. The team has a particularly strong reputation for its work in the biotech/ life sciences space, including in relation to licensing and collaboration agreements. Elaine Murphy, with considerable experience advising institutional and global investors, fund sponsors and advisers, and multinational companies on international and US tax matters, chairs the practice. James Brown in New York advises several leading private equity sponsors and investment advisors on a wide range of matters, including M&A, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and fund structuring. Pamela Glazier represents middle-market and premier private equity firms operating in the banking, tech, retail, and life sciences sectors, among others, as well as registered investment companies on transactional and mutual funds matters. Adam Greenwood in New York advises global asset managers and private equity sponsors, while David Saltzman concentrates on international tax matters, advising multinationals, financial institutions investment funds, and global investors. Amanda Holt focuses on transactional tax, including corporate and partnership taxation. Tristan Evans-Wilent, Samuel Duncan, Franziska Hertel, and Brandon Dunn were all promoted to partnership in November 2023. All lawyers mentioned are based in Boston, unless stated otherwise.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > M&A 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