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Have offers from both firms in NY, think I'd be interested in funds work but not 100%. Also thinking about asking both firms if I could split with their respective HQ offices. Any and all advice is welcome!

I think Ropes has the much stronger general funds practice unless you’re specifically interested in doing hedge funds.

Bump - I've also narrowed down my offers to these two firms but am curious what people would say in general for them, not as interested in funds but they seem to be in kind of a similar tier in NY in regards to corporate work or am I wrong on that?

Both are headquartered outside of NY, but it seems to me that they also have fairly large NY firms such that you won't feel a "stigma" that it's a satellite office.

I encounter Sidley NY occasionally and have never viewed them to be particularly notable in any area, at least reputationally (but have certainly viewed them to be a fairly large, full-service firm). Ropes NY is probably best known for being very active in the PE market (mostly in the middle market), and as mentioned above, they have a lot of active funds work as well.

You're probably not wrong that they're reasonably comparable for corporate work, but maybe with a slight edge to Ropes given their notable PE work.