Andrew Thomases > Ropes & Gray LLP > East Palo Alto, United States > Lawyer Profile
Ropes & Gray LLP Offices
1900 UNIVERSITY AVENUE
EAST PALO ALTO, CA 94303
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Andrew Thomases
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Partner
Career
https://www.ropesgray.com/en/biographies/t/andrew-thomases?AK=Andrew%20Thomases
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Fintech
Ropes & Gray LLP is particularly active in fintech-related corporate M&A and private equity, with lawyers acting on a regular flow of high profile deals. In addition to banking and payments-related fintech businesses, the firm is also increasingly involved in transactions in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, where a team led by San Francisco-based Melissa Bender is assisting on digital asset launches, fund formations, web3 technologies, and related regulatory and enforcement work. This can be seen through some of the clients the team represents, with traditional funds increasing their involvement, such as Bain Capital Crypto. Other key partners include TMT co-heads Edward Black (Boston), Andrew Thomases (Silicon Valley), and Los Angeles-based litigation and enforcement partner Amy Jane Longo, who joined in 2022 from the SEC.
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
Ropes & Gray LLP has vast experience at the ITC, with attorneys who familiar with the intricacies of the proceedings. The global nature of the firm and international capabilities make it a strong choice for multi-forum proceedings, with vast experience also in acting on parallel ITC and PTAB proceedings. The team has seen significant victories including for Roku against Universal Electronics, NetApp against Proven Networks, and Marvell against Bell Semiconductor. Steven Pepe in New York is the intellectual property litigation practice head, with great experience litigating multijurisdictional and complex patent infringement cases. Matthew Rizzolo in Washington DC leads the firm’s ITC practice, frequently working with tech companies to defend clients from infringement claims. Silicon Valley-based Andrew Thomases is another key figure in the team – a first chair trial lawyer with deep experience litigating complex patent cases.
Lawyer Rankings
- Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission) United States > Intellectual property
- Fintech United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- 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
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- 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)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- 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
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- 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
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- 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
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions