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Richard Batchelder, Jr.

Richard Batchelder, Jr.

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.
Randall Bodner

Randall Bodner

Partner, Member of the Policy Committee Randy, who is a member of Ropes & Gray’s governing Policy Committee and former head of the firm’s business and securities litigation practice group, focuses on securities litigation, corporate governance matters, deal-related litigation, contentious insolvency litigation, securities enforcement matters, D&O insurance coverage, and other complex commercial disputes. Called “an engaged, passionate advocate of superior creativity” by Chambers USA, Randy has considerable experience in both the courtroom and the boardroom from his successful representations of corporations, financial services companies, private equity clients, hedge funds and individual officers and directors in corporate and securities disputes across the country. Randy has also conducted numerous internal investigations for clients involving highly sensitive matters, successfully defended against investigations and threatened actions by the SEC, DOJ and other government agencies, and guided companies through grand jury investigations to avoid criminal prosecution.
Edouard Chapellier

Edouard Chapellier

Édouard is widely recognised as one of the leading tax practitioners in France and heads the firm’s French tax practice. Édouard advises corporates, private equity firms and investment banks on domestic and international tax law, especially on the tax structuring of complex cross-border corporate, banking and capital markets transactions, including Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), joint ventures and real estate acquisitions. Édouard also has extensive experience in structuring private equity and real estate investment funds in a range of jurisdictions, including Luxembourg, Jersey and France.
Giorgia Lugli

Giorgia Lugli

Giorgia Lugli advises multinational private equity firms, financial institutions, and companies doing business in Italy on a range of investments, M&A transactions, and restructurings. Drawing on her experience in complex, cross-border transactions, Ms. Lugli delivers pragmatic and creative counsel to international and Italian clients. She regularly navigates multifaceted transactions in tight timeframes by effectively managing multiple work streams and collaborating closely with clients’ legal counsel. An accomplished private equity practitioner, Ms. Lugli counsels clients throughout every stage of the investment lifecycle — from negotiating investment agreements to assisting clients on corporate governance matters to executing sales. She fosters strong relationships with stakeholders from target companies across diverse industries to help ensure efficient deal closings. Ms. Lugli brings particular experience in cross-border transactions involving companies in highly regulated sectors. Ms. Lugli’s practice work also includes joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, and acquisitions of insolvent companies.
Andrew Minear

Andrew Minear

Andrew Minear represents debtors, creditors, sponsors, banks, hedge funds, lenders, asset purchasers and other strategic parties in a wide range of corporate restructuring transactions. These include out-of-court workouts, prepackaged and traditional bankruptcies, debtor-in-possession and exit financing transactions, asset sales, bankruptcy litigation, cross-border insolvencies and liability management transactions. Andrew has been involved in numerous complex transactions, including acting as counsel to the ad hoc group of 2024/2026 noteholders in the landmark Wesco/Incora chapter 11 cases, RedBird Capital Partners in its acquisition, alongside Dany Garcia and Dwayne Johnson, of the XFL, a consortium of Simon Property Group and Authentic Brands Group in its acquisition of Forever 21 through a truncated 363 sale process, Mubadala in its acquisition of a significant stake of Anthropic in FTX’s chapter 11 cases, CX Re Insurance Company Limited in its chapter 15 administration and scheme recognition proceedings and various private equity funds in restructurings of portfolio companies.
Andrew Mordkoff

Andrew Mordkoff

Andrew Mordkoff represents debtors, creditors, sponsors and investors in large, complex, chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Andrew has been significantly involved in numerous complex deals, including acting as counsel to Momentive in its landmark chapter 11 cases, Core Media (the owner of American Idol) in its complex cross-border filing, and Aegerion Pharmaceuticals in its successful reorganization which was nominated for The Deal’s Restructuring Deal of the Year.
Christopher Roman

Christopher Roman

Tax Partner. Mr. Roman’s practice focuses on tax aspects of alternative investment funds and fund-related M&A, with significant experience in both corporate transactional work and matters involving real estate and real estate investment trusts (REITs). In addition to representing both sponsors and investors in fund formations, he has extensive experience representing investors in secondary sales of interests in private funds on both the sell-side and buy-side, as well as investors and sponsors in debt and equity co-investment transactions. Mr. Roman also has significant experience involving REITs, including representation of companies and underwriters in REIT formations, securities offerings, debt financings, asset acquisitions, dispositions, M&A and other transactions. Mr. Roman’s practice also focuses on mergers & acquisitions transactions, particularly cross-border transactions, representing clients in a range of industries, including real estate, telecommunications, health care and manufacturing.
Morri Weinberg

Morri Weinberg

Morri Weinberg is a partner in the asset management group and co-head of the firm’s private funds practice. He works with private fund sponsors in connection with fundraising, organizational/governance, regulatory and compliance related matters. He also represents institutional investors in connection with their private fund-related investments on a primary, secondary and co-investment basis. Morri's experience also includes transactions involving investment management firms, including joint ventures, spin-offs and acquisitions.  
Kate Withers

Kate Withers

Kate Withers is a trusted advisor to clients on their most complex corporate transactions and a partner in Ropes & Gray’s global private equity transactions group based in New York and Los Angeles. Kate advises private equity investors and their portfolio companies on structured corporate transactions in the software, digital infrastructure, consumer, technology, health care, life sciences and financial services sectors. Kate’s broad transactional experience—spanning private equity, strategic M&A, special situations, growth and venture capital transactions—and commercial focus on structuring and executing sophisticated corporate transactions to achieve her client’s business objectives enable her to represent clients on their most complex and bespoke corporate transactions, including: Technology-focused carve-out transactions; Domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions; Technology-focused joint ventures; Leveraged buyouts; Pharma and music royalty sales and purchases; Distressed acquisitions and special situations; Restructurings and recapitalizations; and Preferred equity and convertible debt investments. In recent years, Kate’s private equity clients have included GI Partners, TPG, KKR & Co., Lindsay Goldberg, HPS Investment Partners, Vista Equity Partners, Crosspoint Capital, and West Coast middle market funds. Kate also has extensive experience representing strategic acquirers across industries on M&A transactions, including Facebook (now Meta), Abcam, Tencent Holdings, The National Geographic Society, Peloton Interactive, Bonobos, BBVA, Humana, Cisco, American Airlines, Allergan, J&J and numerous biotechnology companies on M&A matters. Kate’s passion for advising clients on technology acquisitions and her deep understanding of financial services, software, data and life sciences businesses have their roots in her prior work as a quantitative data analyst in the financial services and health care industries, including at Bank of America, the World Bank, and for an interdisciplinary team of physician and economics researchers at the Wharton School of Business. Prior to attending law school, Kate studied economics as a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics and was a research assistant to George Akerlof (2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics) at the Brookings Institution. Kate has been recognized as a 2022 Top Woman in Dealmaking by The Deal, by The Legal 500—the world’s largest legal referral guide—for her work in “Technology Transactions,” and by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in M&A in the New York Metro Area. For more information, please visit https://www.ropesgray.com/en/people/w/kate-withers