Mr Ruchit Patel > Ropes & Gray LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Offering extensive expertise across a range of competition matters, the team at Ropes & Gray LLP maintains an active practice, advising on merger control, FDI clearances, conduct, compliance, and antitrust counseling. The team is frequently engaged by blue-chip corporates, pharmaceutical companies, and private equity clients on complex, multijurisdictional merger control matters. Practice head Ruchit Patel is a key adviser to some of the world’s largest companies on matters before the CMA and the European Commission.

Ropes & Gray LLP‘s National Security and Foreign Investment practice boasts capabilities in CFIUS, cybersecurity, trade, antitrust, and economic sanctions. Washington DC managing partner Ama Adams has vast experience advising on these issues in the context of international transactions and international investigations. Brendan Hanifin, based in Chicago, evaluates international risk compliance programs and conducts risk assessments to develop or enhance these processes. Edward McNicholas heads the firm’s Global Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity practice which contributes to wider National Security mandates, whilst Emerson Siegle, a recently promoted partner, represents clients in CFIUS reviews and assesses transactional CFIUS risks. Ruchit Patel, based in London, focuses his practice on antitrust issues. All lawyers are based in Washington DC unless stated otherwise.