Ropes & Gray in a global law firm that operates across 17 time zones and has more than 1,500 lawyers based in the United States, Europe and Asia who collaborate seamlessly to provide clients with high-quality representation in innovative industries that shape the global economy. Our clients include private equity firms, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, financial institutions, mutual funds, hospital systems, and more. Client by client, we’ve built a reputation for first-class work, a pragmatic approach, and impeccable standards of service and ethics. We count many of the world’s most respected companies and institutions as longtime clients, and serve organizations at all stages of development. Clients trust us with their most important matters because they know we understand their businesses and deliver the results they need.
Our deeply rooted culture of teamwork means that our lawyers work closely with colleagues around the world to provide support to clients. This collaborative approach encourages our lawyers to work alongside partners and clients on sophisticated matters. We work as a team to support a range of leading legal practices, including private equity, M&A, capital markets, finance, asset management, real estate, tax, antitrust, life sciences, health care, intellectual property, litigation & enforcement, data, privacy & cybersecurity, and business restructuring.
Ropes & Gray London is one of the largest offices in the Ropes & Gray network, and the hub of the firm’s EMEA network and set up in London in 2010. While we are now an established presence in the UK, we’ve retained all the buzz of our start-up years. It makes us a little bit different: it means we have the stature and resources of a major international law firm combined with the pace, inclusivity and career progression of a specialist firm. Our clients like to work with us. We are, of course, always professional, but we are personal, and personable with it. As a group, we’re international, diverse and our team is always professional, but uniquely personable. With around 33 partners and 130+ fee earners everybody in the office knows everyone else. That means that every hire we make is an important investment for the firm, because each team member has a distinct role to play in delivering excellent service to our clients. |
This role reports to the Senior Business Development (BD) Manager supporting the European BD efforts of the Asset Management and Tax practices. This role will require the candidate to be in the office 3 days per week whereby helping to develop and deliver business development support to our relationship development across clients, industries and international law firm relationships.
The core of the role focusses on coordinating projects and working with lawyers and business teams along with implementing client and business development priorities of the London office within the context of the London business plan and global firm strategy. The role will work closely with members of the European Marketing and Business Development Team, including those based outside of the UK.
The role will also provide the candidate the opportunity to lead on projects involving BD specialists and other business team members. |
Primary responsibilities include:
- Support the implementation of the Asset Management and Tax practice group’s business development and client plans initiatives, including:
- strategy and client relationship meetings;
- workshops and roundtables;
- contact mapping;
- activity tracking;
- market research; and
- reporting etc.
- Manage and support the preparation of pitches, proposals and capability statement documents.
- Responsible for maintaining the Asset Management, and Tax practice’s marketing collateral infrastructure including pitches, capability statements, brochures, lawyer profiles, and intranet pages
- Project manage and prepare directory and league table submissions.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to create and implement integrated branding and profile-raising campaigns
- Co-ordinate with the Events team on practice-related events and assess conference opportunities, including advising the lawyers on selection, participation in and execution
- Identify opportunities to promote knowledge sharing including market insights and best practices – leading to cross-selling initiatives.
- Working with the European Director for Marketing and Business Development, support on building international law firm relationships including setting up and attending relationship meetings, co-ordinating referral requests, maintaining international counsel database, and form part of the project team for the annual IBA Annual Conference etc.
- Supporting on the delivery of thought leadership campaigns and other digital and media profiling initiatives
- Contribute to the weekly London business development newsletter.
- Support on new product launches and industry specific campaigns.
- Support with budget planning processes.
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