Why Join Ropes & Gray in Italy

Our Milan office, founded in 2025, welcomes experienced lawyers from a range of backgrounds and practice areas. If you choose to continue your career with us, you will build upon the firm’s first-class reputation across some of the currently most active sectors in private capital and strategic M&A, such as healthcare and life sciences, technology, infrastructure, and more.

You will have all the benefits of working for a large global firm, including ongoing career support from award-winning training programs and global cohort retreats, as well as the hands-on training and close-knit culture offered in our smaller Milan office. 

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Our Values

Fostering a welcoming work environment, where people of all backgrounds have the opportunity to succeed, is one of our most important missions. Welcoming and valuing people of all backgrounds in all aspects of the firm’s operations is fundamental to our core values of excellence, fairness and integrity. Here are just a few programs and initiatives we have established to support our commitment to our values.

Press

See what the press is saying about our people, our impact, and our innovation, and learn about our market-leading work that makes the news.

Ropes & Gray is proud to have been recognized in the Chambers and Partners 2026 Europe Guide with three practice rankings and 11 individual lawyer rankings. 

Ropes & Gray deepens commitment to European private equity with Milan expansion.

GLI details the launch of our Milan office, spotlighting our opening team.

IFLR details the “client centric” decision to open an office in Milan.

The Boston Globe speaks to Will Shields about the opening of Ropes & Gray’s Milan office.

Chambers Europe describes partner Cataldo (Aldo) Piccarreta as “an outstanding professional with strong commercial acumen and client dedication.” 

Business Insider highlights how Ropes & Gray attorneys are integrating AI into daily legal work, transforming how complex matters are analyzed and delivered.