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Ropes & Gray LLP Offices

Ropes & Gray LLP
1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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John Sorkin

Work Department
John advises a broad range of clients on U.S. and cross-border M&A transactions, including strategic and private equity acquisitions and dispositions, leveraged buyouts and other transactional and corporate governance matters. He also regularly counsels many of the world’s leading investment banks on financial advisory matters. John has been a frequent speaker on M&A and tender offer transaction topics and has served as adjunct professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he led a class on private equity transactions.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Industry focus > Education
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- 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
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions