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Julie Jones

1-617-951-7294 julie.jones@ropesgray.com

Work Department

Mergers & Acquisitions

Position

Chair

Career

Julie Jones is chair of Ropes & Gray and has been a member of the firm’s management committee since 2011. One of the world’s premier corporate lawyers, Julie has won accolades for her work on behalf of clients that include some of the world’s largest companies and investors. She was honored as one of The American Lawyer’s prestigious “45 Under 45,” and later named “Corporate Lawyer of the Year” for both 2017 and 2019 and as “M&A Lawyer of the Year” in 2016 and 2018 by The Best Lawyers in America. Chambers ranks Julie in its Band 1 for Corporate/M&A.

Over the course of her career, Julie has led numerous multibillion-dollar deals, prompting clients to describe her as a “preternaturally cool-headed negotiator.” She has guided blockbuster deals across industries, including in health care (represented IASIS Healthcare in its sale to Steward Health Care, creating the largest for-profit hospital operator in the United States), technology (represented TPG in its investment in Etsy), medical devices (represented TPG in its acquisition of Exactech, a leading provider of innovative bone and joint restoration products) and retail (represented Petco in its sale to CVC Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board).

Julie’s ability to combine her market-leading knowledge of federal securities laws with business acumen has caused clients to describe her as unique in the marketplace. Chambers commented that “she can get down into the nitty-gritty and go head to head with the nerdiest, but she can also step back and be a field general for the client, seeing the big picture.”

Working out of the firm’s New York and Boston offices, Julie is a member of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Cornell Law School.

Memberships

• Massachusetts Bar Association
• New York Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association
• Business Law Section of ABA

Education

• JD, magna cum laude, Cornell Law School, 1994; Order of the Coif
• BA, magna cum laude, Wellesley College, 1991