Raphaël Durand

Counsel at Ropes & Gray

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

About

Raphaël Durand serves as a trusted advisor to financial sponsors — including private equity firms, infrastructure investors, and sovereign and pension funds — as well as corporate clients engaged in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, with extensive experience in private capital transactions. Clients look to Raphaël for strategic counsel on a wide range of transactional matters, including leveraged buyouts, equity and quasi-equity investments, structured equity, and management incentive plans, as well as carve-outs, co-investments and secondaries. His experience encompasses a diverse range of industries, including TMT, healthcare, infrastructure, industrials and retail. Raphaël has been recognized as a “Rising Star” for Private Equity and M&A in France by International Financial Law Review (IFLR).

Experience

  • Counsel at Ropes & Gray LLP
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    Counsel at Ropes & Gray (Paris) M&A / Private Equity & Infrastructure

  • Clifford Chance (10 yrs 5 mos)
    • Counsel
      May 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      M&A / Private Equity & Infrastructure at Clifford Chance

    • Avocat à la Cour
      Oct 2014 - May 2022 · 7 yrs 8 mos

  • Legal Intern at Allen & Overy
    Jan 2014 - Jun 2014 · 6 mos

    Corporate, M&A, Private Equity ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Assisting on public and private M&A bids / transactions, including private equity transactions.

  • Legal Intern at Linklaters
    Apr 2013 - Jul 2013 · 4 mos

    Investment management / Investment Funds ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Advising on regulatory and contractual matters applicable to investment funds (UCITS / AIFs) and their managers / management companies.

  • Legal Intern at Weil Gotshal and Manges
    Mar 2012 - Jul 2012 · 5 mos

    M&A / Private Equity / LBO ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Assisting on large M&A and private equity transactions / LBO