Richard Batchelder, Jr. > Ropes & Gray LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Ropes & Gray LLP Offices
1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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Richard Batchelder, Jr.
Work Department
Richard has advised Ropes & Gray clients for nearly 30 years in a wide range of high stakes litigation matters before courts throughout the country. In recent years, Richard has handled a number of significant contractual and indemnification disputes for life sciences and health care clients of the firm.
Position
He has advised many of the firm’s private equity clients and their portfolio companies in numerous capacities, such as analyzing litigation risk in proposed transactions, representing them in court post-acquisition, and in bankruptcy-related litigation. In addition, Richard actively participates in the data, privacy & cybersecurity group, helping clients respond to incidents and defending them in any related proceedings. Richard’s experience in this area includes defending TJX and Target in class action lawsuits brought by financial institutions in the wake of two of the largest data breaches in U.S. history.
Career
Richard served as the firm’s hiring partner from 2011 to 2016, and was a member of the firm’s diversity committee. Richard is active in pro bono matters at the firm, including submitting amicus briefs to the Supreme Court in Barber v. Bryant, on behalf of GLAD and NCLR, Gloucester County Sch. Bd. v. G.G. on behalf of The Equality Foundation, Fisher v. University of Texas on behalf of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and assisting in the successful appeal before the 11th Circuit in an important free speech case involving a physician’s right to discuss gun safety with their patients (Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida). Richard serves on several charitable boards, including Greater Boston Legal Services. He joined Ropes & Gray in 1991 following a federal court clerkship in Boston, and became a partner in 1999.
Education
- JD, cum laude , Cornell Law School, 1990; Senior Editor, Cornell Law Review
- BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984
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