Entries for the LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA 2026 will open for entries once again in late 2025 - dates TBD. The awards seek to recognise the most outstanding law firms and lawyers specialised in the life sciences industry across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The annual awards ceremony for the 2025 awards took place in June 2025 at The Waldorf Hilton, London. The event brings together leading individuals from the industry to celebrate the most impressive achievements and breakthoughs of the previous calendar year, as well as the firms, teams and individuals who are setting the standard.
The Life Sciences Award’s distinctive structure is designed to showcase firms that specialise and excel in life sciences work, with categories that cover the sector and the range of legal disciplines that service it. A full description of the categories and awrads methodology can be seen in our Awards Guidelines.
The most recent winners for the 2025 can be seen here.
We award law firms and lawyers working in life sciences and publish the shortlists and winners on our websites and social media.
Projecte dates - subject to confirmation
• LAUNCH – Novermber
• ENTRY DEADLINE – January
• RESEARCH INTERVIEWS – January - February
• AWARDS CEREMONY – June
To take part in our research simply:
1. Register on our Entry Portal
2. Download the Entry Forms
3. Complete the your entry forms for the categories you wish to enter
4. Submit the entry forms via the entry portal - you nust submit via the portal, we cannot accept entries by email
We will be rewarding legal work in the life sciences that has taken place between January 1 to December 31 2025.
• Accurate and in-depth representation of your firm’s activities
• Exposure to our global readership including in-house counsel to the industry’s leading development corporations
The EMEA Awards are based primarily on Deal and Case evidence.
We ask firms to provide recent deal and case highlights. The awards are primarily based on the role that firms and individuals played on the most impactful deals and cases of the year. Firms should provide their most complex and interesting matters in the research forms and explain clearly why these pieces of work are important to the industry, why they are innovative and how they can influence market practice, and what challenges they had to overcome to get the deals/cases to a successful resolution.
We will also speak corporate and in-house contacts to get their opinions on key pieces of work. To this end, within the entry forms we have asked firms to provide referees to the most important deals, cases and projects.
Throughout the research, we will also engage with lawyers throughout EMEA in life sciences legal field to get their opinions on notable deals and cases, and to understand the highlights and trends in the life sciences industry during the year in review.
In covering EMEA, we focus on the work being completed by firms, individuals, and in-house teams across different practice areas and we shortlist them within focused categories:
• Firm awards – These awards look to recognise the accomplishments of firms in various practice areas, looking at the cases and/or transactions completed from all lawyers in the firm that have worked on behalf of the life sciences industry in the previous calendar year.
• Individual awards – These awards look to recognise the specific accomplishments of leading lawyers for their work in specific practice areas that had been completed in the previous calendar year.
• Rising stars awards – These awards look to recognise the accomplishments of up coming leading lawyers for their work in more open practice area categories that had been completed in the previous calendar year.
• In-house awards – These awards look to recognise the accomplishments of inhouse legal teams and General counsels that operate on behalf of companies, that make up the life sciences industry, from work they completed in the previous calendar year.
• Jurisdiction awards – These awards look to recognise the accomplishments of firms for their accomplishments across the scope of the life sciences legal practices within the jurisdictions that they are based, from work completed in the previous calendar year.
• Impact case and deal awards – These awards look to recognise those firms and inhouse teams that have been involved in the more impactful case decisions and/or transactions within the life sciences industry from the previous calendar year.
You can view the categories by downloading our methodology.
No. All submissions must made be made through our Entry Portal.
Yes. So long as it relates to your life sciences practice and the information included speaks directly to the award category you are entering.
Firms are encouraged to tell their story via our research form and through interviews. We then measure the firm’s input against the feedback we receive via studying the market. If our studies are in harmony with the firm’s assertions, we weight them equally. If there is an extreme disparity between the firm’s views and a pronounced percentage of the market, we will provide greater weight to the market consensus.
We cannot guarantee awards or shortlist nominations. The awards are open to all participants and highly competitive, and we will assess the work and the achievements on their own merit.
You can provide confidential clients/cases if you feel we should be aware of these, and we will certainly be respectful of confidential agreements – please mark confidential information clearly within the submission. Ex.
Our research team will contact client referees provided to us directly via personal email. Any feedback that clients provide will be handled sensitively, for awards research purposes only and strictly on a non-attributable basis. Referees may be contacted to provide testominals, clarification and validation for the nominated deal/cases.
There are rare exceptions where an attorney of counsel or senior associate will be recognised for performing at a partner level.
Because LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA focuses on a number of practice areas within the industry, smaller firms stand a very good chance of being awarded and in some cases. The awards rest on the merit of the work and achievements within the industry, and not on the size of the organisation.
Those attending our awards night include law firms and in-house counsel.
Firms cannot pay to receive an award and will only be shortlisted based on the merit of their work and achievements, supported by client feedback. It is free to participate in the awards and judging is independent.
