Bio

Emily Oldshue brings a leading transactional lawyer’s perspective to mergers and acquisitions and the full range of capital markets transactions. Her insight into how to navigate challenging business issues and complex transactions has made her a trusted advisor for a diverse base of public and private companies, investment banks and private equity funds. Clients involved in capital markets transactions benefit from Emily’s broad perspective—she represents issuers and underwriters across industries and draws on her extensive securities law experience to help clients manage complicated disclosure issues and execute successful transactions. Emily’s strategic M&A experience is equally broad, and includes spin-offs, cross-border deals, divestitures and bolt-ons, as well as a variety of other complex strategic transactions. In addition to her transactional work, Emily counsels clients on ongoing corporate governance matters, including ESG. Emily’s passion for helping clients achieve their goals extends to her pro bono practice. She leads Ropes & Gray’s name change project, a collaboration with GLAD that matches attorneys with transgender clients seeking assistance with the legal name change and gender marker update process. She also represents clients through the firm’s medical-legal partnership, which matches patients of Dorchester House, Boston Medical Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute seeking legal assistance with attorney volunteers. In recognition of her commitment to pro bono service, Emily was selected to participate in the Boston Bar Association’s 2018 Public Interest Leadership Program.