Winners for the 2022 LMG Life Sciences Americas Awards were revealed on September 8 at the Essex House in New York City. The full list of the year's recognized firms and attorneys can be found below. The LMG Life Sciences team sends its sincerest congratulations to all of this year's deserving winners.
If you are recognized and would like to inquire about attendance or sponsorship opportunities, please contact george.reeves@euromoneyny.com.
To view this year's finalists, please visit here.
Last year's winners resulting from the 2021 research period can be found here.
Life Cycle Firm of the Year – Canada
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Life Cycle Firm of the Year – United States
Ropes & Gray
Corporate Attorney of the Year
Arthur McGivern, Goodwin Procter
Licensing & Collaboration Attorney of the Year
Kay Chandler, Cooley
M&A Attorney of the Year
Barbara Borden, Cooley
Venture Capital Attorney of the Year
Stuart Cable, Goodwin Procter
Corporate Firm of the Year
Latham & Watkins
Licensing & Collaboration Firm of the Year
Cooley
M&A Firm of the Year
Ropes & Gray
Venture Capital Firm of the Year
Gunderson Dettmer
US Rising Star – Financial & Corporate
Emily Oldshue, Ropes & Gray
Firm to Watch – Financial & Corporate
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Financial & Corporate In-House Team of the Year
Pfizer
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: FDA Pharmaceutical
Julie Tibbets, Goodwin Procter
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: FDA Medical Device
Janice Hogan, Hogan Lovells
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: Pricing & Reimbursement
Jeffrey Handwerker, Arnold & Porter
US Rising Star – Regulatory
Dennis Gucciardo, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
FDA Litigation & Enforcement Firm of the Year
Goodwin Procter
Regulatory Firm of the Year
Hogan Lovells
Intellectual Property Boutique Firm of the Year
Fish & Richardson
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Branded
Juanita Brooks, Fish & Richardson
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Branded
WilmerHale
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Generic
Jake Holdreith, Robins Kaplan
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Generic
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
General Patent Litigator of the Year – California
Edward Reines, Weil Gotshal & Manges
General Patent Litigator of the Year – DC Metro
Michael Morin, Latham & Watkins
General Patent Litigator of the Year – Midwest
David Anstaett, Perkins Coie
General Patent Litigator of the Year – New England
Elaine Blais, Goodwin Procter
General Patent Litigator of the Year – New York
John Desmarais, Desmarais
General Patent Litigator of the Year – South
John Livingstone, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
General Patent Litigation Firm of the Year
Fish & Richardson
Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year – California
Gargi Talukder, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year – DC Metro
Jill MacAlpine, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year – Massachusetts
David Dykeman, Greenberg Traurig
Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year – Midwest
Christopher Betti, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year – New York
David Kappos, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Patent Strategy Attorney of the Year – South
Scott Marty, Ballard Spahr
Patent Strategy Firm of the Year
Morrison & Foerster
Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year
Michael Rosato, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Appellate Litigator of the Year – Intellectual Property
Joshua Rosenkranz, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
US Rising Star – Intellectual Property
Sharonmoyee Goswami, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Inter-Partes Review Firm of the Year
Knobbe Martens
Firm to Watch – Intellectual Property
Allen & Overy
Firm of the Year – Intellectual Property
Fish & Richardson
In-House Team of the Year – Intellectual Property
Viatris
Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Bart Williams, Proskauer Rose
Product Liability Firm of the Year
O’Melveny & Myers
Government Investigations Attorney of the Year
Gary Giampetruzzi, Paul Hastings
Government Investigations Firm of the Year
Ropes & Gray
Antitrust Practitioner of the Year
Robert Milne, White & Case
Antitrust Firm of the Year
White & Case
Canadian Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Sylvie Rodrigue, Torys
Canadian Product Liability Firm of the Year
McCarthy Tétrault
Canadian Patent Litigator of the Year
Julie Desrosiers, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Canadian Patent Litigation Firm of the Year
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Canadian Patent Strategy Practitioner of the Year
Daphne Lainson, Smart & Biggar
Canadian Patent Strategy Firm of the Year
Bereskin & Parr
Canadian Regulatory Attorney of the Year
Mathieu Gagné, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Canadian Financial & Corporate Attorney of the Year
Philippe Leclerc, McCarthy Tétrault
Canadian Financial & Corporate Firm of the Year
Torys
Canadian Rising Star
Mark Pidkowich, Smart & Biggar
Canadian In-House Team of the Year
Merck Canada
Hatch-Waxman Impact Cases of the Year
Adapt Pharma v Teva (Fed Cir 2022)
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Biogen v Mylan (Fed Cir 2021)
Perkins Coie
Celgene v Mylan (Fed Cir 2021)
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
GlaxoSmithKline v Teva (Fed Cir 2021)
Fish & Richardson
Novartis v Accord (Fed Cir 2022)
Skiermont Derby
Patent Impact Cases of the Year
Juno Therapeutics v Kite Pharma (Fed Cir 2021)
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe; Fish & Richardson
Nippon Shinyaku v Sarepta Therapeutics (Fed Cir 2022)
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Collegium v Purdue (PTAB 2021)
Robins Kaplan
Plexxikon v Novartis (ND Cal 2021)
Durie Tangri
ModernaTx v Arbutus (Fed Cir 2021)
Williams & Connolly; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Auris Health v Intuitive Surgical (Fed Cir 2022)
Sidley Austin
Impact Deals of the Year -- in association with CAS
Intellia Therapeutics $690 million underwritten public offering
Goodwin Procter
Pfizer $11.6 billion acquisition of Biohaven
Ropes & Gray; Sullivan & Cromwell
Poseida Therapeutics $3.6 billion research collaboration with Takeda
Cooley; Baker McKenzie
Impact Deals of the Year - United States
Novartis $1 billion license agreement with BeiGene
Arnold & Porter; Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
ProKidney $825 million SPAC combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings
Davis Polk & Wardwell; Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo; Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Sanofi $6.15 billion collaboration with IGM Biosciences
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Non-IP Litigation Impact Cases of the Year
Stephens v Monsanto et al (Superior Ct of CA 2021)
Proskauer Rose
Ramirez v Gilead Sciences (CA Court of Appeal 2021)
Cooley
Hunter v Johnson & Johnson et al (Supreme Ct of Oklahoma 2021)
O’Melveny & Myers
Impact Cases of the Year - Canada
Seedlings v Pfizer (2021 FCA 154)
Belmore Neidrauer
Merck Canada et al v Canada (2022 QCCA 240)
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Janssen et al v Sandoz Canada (2021 FC 1265)
Fineberg Ramamoorthy
Impact Deals of the Year - Canada
Aptose Biosciences $408 million license agreement with Hanmi Pharmaceutical
McCarthy Tétrault
Government of Canada agreement with Moderna
Torys
Pfizer’s acquisition of Trillium Pharmaceuticals for $2.2 billion
Norton Rose Canada, Baker McKenzie Canada
Launched in 2020, the LMG Life Sciences Europe Awards is the latest effort to capture one of the most dynamic life sciences markets. For more information about the research and methodology, visit here.
A full list of the 2021 winners for Europe can be found here.
Research has concluded for the 2022 awards program covering the United States and Canada. The results above reflect the latest research conducted in the Spring and Summer of 2022. The next research cycle for the awards will commence in March 2023.
