The LMG Life Sciences Awards aim to recognise complex and innovative work completed in the life sciences sector across various practice area categories. Our editorial and awards teams would like to express their deepest gratitude to every firm, lawyer, and company that participated in the research for this year’s awards.
This year's awards event was held on May 12 at the Andaz Hotel in London, where numerous legal professionals in the life sciences sector gathered to congratulate the best in the business during the 2022 research period.
A big congratulations to all the winners and the shortlisted nominees! Photos from the 2022 gala ceremony.
And the winners are…
In-house Team of the Year
Teva
General Counsel of the Year
Dan Ireland, Exscientia
Competition & Antitrust Firm of the Year
Dorda
Corporate Firm of the Year
Latham & Watkins
Licensing & Collaboration Firm of the Year
Allen & Overy
M&A Firm of the Year
Latham & Watkins
Opposition Procedure Firm of the Year
De Clercq & Partners
Parallel Import Firm of the Year
Taylor Wessing
Patent Litigation Firm of the Year: Biologics / Biosimilars
Powell Gilbert
Patent Litigation Firm of the Year: Biotech
Powell Gilbert
Patent Litigation Firm of the Year: Medical Devices
Powell Gilbert
Patent Litigation Firm of the Year: Pharmaceuticals
Allen & Overy
Patent Strategy Firm of the Year
Greenberg Traurig
Product Liability Firm of the Year
S Horowitz & Co
Regulatory Firm of the Year
Esin Attorney Partnership (a Member Firm of Baker McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein)
SPC Litigation Firm of the Year
Carpmaels & Ransford
Venture Capital Firm of the Year
Cooley
White Collar Crime Firm of the Year
King & Spalding
Advisory Lawyer of the Year
Tal Band, S. Horowitz & Co
Competition & Antitrust Lawyer of the Year
Heinrich Kühnert, Dorda
Corporate Lawyer of the Year
Philipp Haas, Niederer Kraft Frey
Licensing & Collaboration Lawyer of the Year
John Wilkinson, Cooley
M&A Lawyer of the Year
Eduardo Nogueira Pinto, PLMJ
Parallel Import Lawyer of the Year
Ulf Grundmann, King & Spalding
Patent Litigator of the Year: Biologic / Biosimilars
Penny Gilbert, Powell Gilbert
Patent Litigator of the Year: Biotech
Okan Can, Deris Attorney Partnership
Patent Litigator of the Year: Medical Devices
Tim Powell, Powell Gilbert
Patent Litigator of the Year: Pharmaceuticals
Tim Powell, Powell Gilbert
Patent Strategy & Management Lawyer of the Year
Oya Yalvac, Deris Attorney Partnership
Product Liability Lawyer of the Year
Dovev Apel, S. Horowitz & Co
SPC Litigator of the Year
Jennifer Antcliff, Carpmaels & Ransford
White Collar Crime Lawyer of the Year
Illya Kostin, Legal Alliance
Corporate Rising Star
Tom Goodman, Cooley
Financial Rising Star
Eliana Bernardo, PLMJ
IP Rising Star
Joel Coles, Powell Gilbert
Non-IP Litigation Rising Star
Andreas Seling, Dorda
Regulatory Rising Star
Can Sözer, Esin Attorney Partnership (a Member Firm of Baker McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein)
Baltics Firm of the Year
TGS Baltic
Belgium Firm of the Year
Latham & Watkins
Bulgaria Firm of the Year
Dimitrov, Petrov & Co
Central Europe Firm of the Year
Dorda
Czech Republic Firm of the Year
Kinstellar
Eastern Europe Firm of the Year
Mușat & Asociații
France Firm of the Year
Allen & Overy
Germany Firm of the Year
Latham & Watkins
Greece Firm of the Year
Reed Smith
Israel Firm of the Year
S Horowitz & Co
Italy Firm of the Year
Portolano Cavallo
Netherlands Firm of the Year
Allen & Overy
Poland Firm of the Year
Allen & Overy
Portugal Firm of the Year
SRS Advogados
Scandinavian Firm of the Year
Roschier
Spain Firm of the Year
Grau & Angulo
Switzerland Firm of the Year
Homburger
Turkey Firm of the Year
Esin Attorney Partnership (a Member Firm of Baker McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein)
UK Firm of the Year
Powell Gilbert
Acerus Pharmaceuticals v Recipharm
Brick Court Chambers
Hogan Lovells
Knights
Antonin Cohen successful appeal before French Court of Appeals of Aix-en-Provance re: marketing CBD products
Latham & Watkins
CE - 450163 Doctolib successful before Conseil d'État
Bird & Bird
Pharmaceutical Works Polpharma SA v European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Bird & Bird
Secretary of State for Health and another v Servier Laboratories Ltd and others <2021> UKSC 24
Brick Court Chambers
Sidley Austin
Jazz Pharmaceuticals / GW Pharmaceuticals
Arthur Cox
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Macfarlanes
Slaughter and May
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Sanofi / Translate Bio
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Sanofi / Kymab
Goodwin
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Vifor Pharma / CSL
Bär & Karrer
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Vifor Pharma / Sanifit
Baker McKenzie
VC Biolaw
We aim to mention all firms that took part in each of our Impact Cases and Impact Deals. If your firm has been omitted please contact LMG Life Sciences Senior Awards Researcher John Harrison.