Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, LAW FIRM NEWS: Ropes & Gray adds antitrust partner Ruchit Patel in London, (Oct 27, 2015)

Global law firm Ropes & Gray LLP has welcomed Ruchit Patel as a partner in the firm’s Antitrust Practice. He joins the firm’s London office from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Patel has extensive experience handling antitrust matters before the European Commission, UK Competition and Markets Authority, UK sectoral regulators, UK High Court, and UK Competition Appeal Tribunal. He has represented some of the largest companies in the world in the financial services, health care, private equity, technology, and other industries. In addition, Patel has experience advising clients on antitrust matters in Asia.

“We are delighted to welcome Ruchit to Ropes & Gray,” stated London Managing Partner Mike Goetz. “His experience is invaluable to the firm’s expansion in London. Clients have demonstrated a clear desire for the London office to have competition law expertise and the addition of Ruchit really rounds out our European practice. He’s already played a critical role in establishing a top-flight antitrust practice in London and is a real find among antitrust lawyers. I am certain our clients will agree.”

Ropes & Gray employs over 1,100 attorneys in 11 cities across the globe, including offices in Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.

Attorneys: Ruchit Patel (Ropes & Gray LLP)

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