Lawyers from across the US and Canada gathered on Sept. 13 at the Essex House in New York to celebrate the annual LMG Life Sciences Awards, which recognized this year’s top firms and legal professionals operating in the life science market. The awards were based on the research conducted for the 2017 edition of LMG Life Sciences, and categories corresponded with the four main practice areas detailed in the publication.
In addition to highlighting some of the strongest legal work over the past year, part of the night was dedicated to honoring the careers of five veteran life science attorneys by inducting them into the LMG Hall of Fame.
The awards recognizing achievements in intellectual property will be featured in a special section of LMG's October edition of Managing IP Magazine. To obtain reprints for the awards section for your firm, please contact Kevin Dansky; +1 212 224 3673, kevin.dansky@euromoneyny.com.
Below is a list of this year’s award winners.
2017 Hall of Fame Inductees
Jeffrey Handwerker, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Jorge Goldstein, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
James Farrington, Wiggin and Dana
Richard Cooper, Williams & Connolly
Frederick Degnan, King & Spalding
Life Cycle Firm of the Year
WilmerHale
Regulatory
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: FDA
Coleen Klasmeier, Sidley Austin
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: Medical Devices
Jeffrey Senger, Sidley Austin
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: Pricing & Reimbursement
Jeffrey Handwerker, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Regulatory Firm of the Year
Sidley Austin
Finance & Transactional
Finance & Transactional Attorney of the Year: Corporate
Charles Ruck, Latham & Watkins
Finance & Transactional Attorney of the Year: Licensing & Collaboration
Judith Hasko, Latham & Watkins
Finance & Transactional Attorney of the Year: M&A
Joseph Barbeau, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Finance & Transactional Firm of the Year: Corporate
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Finance & Transactional: Licensing & Collaboration
Latham & Watkins
Finance & Transactional Firm of the Year: M&A
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Financial & Transactional In-House Team of the Year
AbbVie
Venture Capital Firm of the Year
Cooley
Finance & Transactional Impact Cases of the Year
The Representation of Biotech Value Fund
Grail $900 million financing
Editas Med licensing and collaboration with Allergan
Novan Inc License Agreement with Sato Pharmaceutical Co Ltd
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals $670 million license and collaboration agreement with Amgen
Litigation & Enforcement
Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Heidi Hubbard, Williams & Connolly
Product Liability Firm of the Year
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
Government Investigations Attorney of the Year
Reed Brodsky, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Government Investigations Firm of the Year
Kirkland & Ellis
Antitrust Litigator of the Year
Mark Gidley, White & Case
Antitrust Firm of the Year
White & Case
Litigation Firm of the Year
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
Non-IP Litigation Impact Cases of the Year
Partner Fund Management Theranos-related Litigation
Abbott white-collar litigation
Merck K-Dur 20 antitrust litigation
Johnson & Johnson ovarian cancer product liability litigation
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Boutique Firm of the Year
Fish & Richardson
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Branded
Adam Perlman, Williams & Connolly
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Branded
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Generic
Elizabeth Holland, Goodwin Procter
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Generic
Goodwin Procter
Hatch-Waxman Impact Cases of the Year
AstraZeneca AB v Aurobindo Ltd et al
Merck Sharp & Dohme BV v Warner Chilcott Company LLC et al
Novartis Pharmaceuticals et al v Roxane Laboratories Inc et al
Purdue Pharma LP et al v Watson Laboratories Inc et al
General Patent Litigator of the Year – California
David Gindler, Irell & Manella
General Patent Litigator of the Year - District of Columbia
Deanne Maynard, Morrison & Foerster
General Patent Litigator of the Year – Illinois
David Pritikin, Sidley Austin
General Patent Litigator of the Year - New England
Lisa Pirozzolo, WilmerHale
General Patent Litigator of the Year - New York
Elizabeth Weiswasser, Weil Gotshal & Manges
General Patent Litigation Firm of the Year
Fish & Richardson
Patent Impact Cases of the Year
Coherus BioSciences Inc v AbbVie Biotechnology Ltd
Gilead Sciences Inc v Merck & Co, Inc et al
GlaxoSmithKline LLC et al v Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc
Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC et al v Gilead Sciences Inc et al
Sandoz Inc v Amgen Inc
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – California
Catherine Polizzi, Morrison & Foerster
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year - District of Columbia
Thomas Irving, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – Massachusetts
Brenda Jarrell, Choate Hall & Stewart
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – Midwest
John Kilyk, Leydig Voit & Mayer
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year - New York
Benjamin Hsing, BakerHostetler
Patent Strategy and Management Firm of the Year
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Post Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year
Eldora Ellison, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Goodwin Procter
Inter-Partes Review Firm of the Year
Fish & Richardson
Intellectual Property In-house Team of the Year
Sandoz
Canada
Canadian Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Sylvie Rodrigue, Torys
Canadian Product Liability Firm of the Year
Torys
Canadian In-House Team of the Year
Bayer
Canadian Life Cycle Firm of the Year
Torys
Canadian Patent Litigation Attorney of the Year
Steven Mason, McCarthy Tétrault
Canadian Patent Contentious Firm of the Year
Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith
Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Attorney of the Year
Micheline Gravelle, Bereskin & Parr
Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Firm of the Year
Bereskin & Parr
Canadian Rising Star
Melanie Baird, Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith
Canadian IP Impact Cases of the Year
AstraZeneca Canada Inc v Apotex Inc
Janssen Inc v Teva Canada Limited
Gilead Sciences et al v Apotex Inc et al
Canadian Deals of the Year
Advisory of OrbiMed Partners
Aquinox $75.4 million financing
Sale of Laborie Medical Technologies
Rising Stars & Firms to Watch
US Intellectual Property Rising Star
Bryan C Diner, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garret & Dunner
US Non-IP Rising Star
Kim Dunne, Sidley Austin
US Regulatory Rising Star
Michael Heyl, Hogan Lovells
US Transactional Rising Star
Kristopher Brown, Dechert
Firm to Watch: IP
McNeill Baur
Firm to Watch: Transactional
Lowenstein Sandler
Firm to Watch: Regulatory
Kleinfeld Kaplan & Becker
Firm to Watch: Non-IP Litigation
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
Firm to Watch: Canada
Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin