LMG Life Sciences Awards 2017 – shortlist announced
The shortlist for the fifth annual LMG Life Sciences awards has been announced. For the 2017 nominees, please see below.
The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, September 13 at Essex House in New York. To reserve your place, please email Kevin Dansky at kevin.dansky@euromoneyny.com or call +1-212-224-3673.
There will be a cocktail reception at 6.30pm and the ceremony starts at 7.30pm. Formal dress for the event is business attire.
Regulatory
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: FDA
Beth Roberts, Hogan Lovells
Coleen Klasmeier, Sidley Austin
Dan Kracov, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
David Fox, Hogan Lovells
Michael Labson, Covington & Burling
Scott Lassman, Goodwin Procter
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: Medical Devices
Jeffrey Senger, Sidley Austin
Jeffrey Shapiro, Hyman Phelps & McNamara
Yarmela Pavlovic, Hogan Lovells
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: Pricing & Reimbursement
Beth Roberts, Hogan Lovells
Jeffrey Handwerker, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
John Shakow, King & Spalding
Regulatory Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Covington & Burling
Hogan Lovells
Hyman Phelps & McNamara
Sidley Austin
Financial/Transactional
Finance & Transactional Attorney of the Year: Corporate
Amy Toro, Covington & Burling
Barbara Kosacz, Cooley
Charles Ruck, Latham & Watkins
Mitchell Bloom, Goodwin Procter
Ryan Murr, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Steven Singer, WilmerHale
Finance & Transactional Attorney of the Year: Licensing & Collaboration
Barbara Kosacz, Cooley
Judith Hasko, Latham & Watkins
Kenneth Clark, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Kingsley Taft, Goodwin Procter
Marc Rubenstein, Ropes & Gray
Michael Gordon, Sidley Austin
Ryan Murr, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Steven Barrett, WilmerHale
Finance & Transactional Attorney of the Year: M&A
Christopher Comeau, Ropes & Gray
Joseph Barbeau, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kenneth Clark, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Matthew Zisk, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Finance & Transactional Firm of the Year: Corporate
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Goodwin Procter
Latham & Watkins
Sidley Austin
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Finance & Transactional: Licensing & Collaboration
Dechert
Goodwin Procter
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins
Ropes & Gray
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Finance & Transactional Firm of the Year: M&A
Cooley
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Goodwin Procter
Latham & Watkins
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Financial & Transactional In-House Team of the Year
AbbVie
Cardinal Health
Celgene
Merck
Pfizer
St Jude Medical
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Venture Capital Firm of the Year
Cooley
Goodwin Procter
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Litigation & Enforcement
Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Robert Adams, Shook Hardy & Bacon
Barbara Binis, Reed Smith
Sheila Birnbaum, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Michael Brown, Reed Smith
William Hoffman, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Heidi Hubbard, Williams & Connolly
Christy Jones, Butler Snow
Leslie Smith, Kirkland & Ellis
Bart Williams, Proskauer Rose
Product Liability Firm of the Year
Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott
Butler Snow
Goldman Ismail
Kirkland & Ellis
Pepper Hamilton
Proskauer Rose
Reed Smith
Sidley Austin
Williams & Connolly
Government Investigations Attorney of the Year
Reed Brodsky, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Adam Hoffinger, Schulte Roth & Zabel
Paul Kalb, Sidley Austin
Katie McDermott, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Brien O’Connor, Ropes & Gray
Kirk Ogrosky, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Paul Radensky, McDermott Will & Emery
Peter Spivack, Hogan Lovells
Government Investigations Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Hogan Lovells
Kirkland & Ellis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Ropes & Gray
Sidley Austin
Antitrust Litigator of the Year
Mark Gidley, White & Case
Timothy Hester, Covington & Burling
Saul Morgenstern, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Steven Newborn, Weil Gotshal & Manges
John Scribner, Weil Gotshal & Manges
John Treece, Sidley Austin
Antitrust Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Goldman Ismail
Sidley Austin
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Williams & Connolly
Litigation Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Goldman Ismail
Sidley Austin
Williams & Connolly
Life Cycle Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Cooley
Dechert
Goodwin Procter
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins
Sidley Austin
WilmerHale
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Boutique Firm of the Year
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Marshall Gerstein & Borun
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Branded
Dominick Conde, Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto
Dimitrios Drivas, White & Case
William Gaede, McDermott Will & Emery
Lisa Pensabene, O’Melveny Myers
Adam Perlman, Williams & Connolly
Amy Wigmore, WilmerHale
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Branded
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fitzpatrick Harper Cella & Scinto
Paul Hastings
Williams & Connolly
WilmerHale
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Generic
Jake Holdreith, Robins Kaplan
Elizabeth Holland, Goodwin Procter
George Lombardi, Winston & Strawn
Kenneth Schuler, Latham & Watkins
Steve Smerek, Winston & Strawn
William Zimmerman, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Generic
Goodwin Procter
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Robins Kaplan
Winston & Strawn
General Patent Litigator of the Year – California
Wayne Barsky, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Richard de Bodo, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Daralyn Durie, Durie Tangri
David Gindler, Irell & Manella
Anthony Insogna, Jones Day
Joseph Re, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Edward Reines, Weil Gotshal & Manges
General Patent Litigator of the Year - District of Columbia
Bruce Genderson, Williams & Connolly
Jeffrey Kushan, Sidley Austin
Deanne Maynard, Morrison & Foerster
Sanya Sukduang, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Matthew Wolf, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
General Patent Litigator of the Year – Illinois
James Hurst, Kirkland & Ellis
George Lombardi, Winston & Strawn
Richard McCaulley, Ropes & Gray
Sandip Patel, Marshall Gerstein & Borun
David Pritikin, Sidley Austin
General Patent Litigator of the Year - New England
Eric Marandett, Choate Hall & Stewart
Lisa Pirozzolo, WilmerHale
Emily Whelan, WilmerHale
Daryl Wiesen, Goodwin Procter
General Patent Litigator of the Year - New York
Jim Badke, Sidley Austin
Sona De, Sidley Austin
Nicholas Groombridge, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Robert Gunther, WilmerHale
Jane Love, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Elizabeth Weiswasser, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Bruce Wexler, Paul Hastings
General Patent Litigation Firm of the Year
Fish & Richardson
Goodwin Procter
Irell & Manella
Jones Day
Morrison & Foerster
Sidley Austin
Williams & Connolly
WilmerHale
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – California
Anthony Insogna, Jones Day
Salima Merani, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Judy Mohr, McDermott Will & Emery
Catherine Polizzi, Morrison & Foerster
Michael Shuster, Fenwick & West
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year - District of Columbia
Courtenay Brinckerhoff, Foley & Lardner
Jorge Goldstein, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Thomas Irving, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Gaby Longsworth, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
David Marsh, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Suzannah Sundby, Canady + Lortz
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – Massachusetts
David Dykeman, Greenberg Traurig
Todd Garcia, Fish & Richardson
Ed Gates, Wolf Greenfield & Sacks
Brenda Jarrell, Choate Hall & Stewart
Leslie McDonell, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – Midwest
Steven Goldstein, Frost Brown Todd
John Kilyk, Leydig Voit & Mayer
Katherine L. Neville, Marshall Gerstein & Borun
Li-Hsien Rin-Laures, RinLaures
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year - New York
Ivor Elrifi, Cooley
Benjamin Hsing, BakerHostetler
Alicia Russo, Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto
Ha Kung Wong, Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto
Patent Strategy and Management Firm of the Year
Choate Hall & Stewart
Cooley
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear
Marshall Gerstein & Borun
McDermott Will & Emery
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Wolf Greenfield & Sacks
Post Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year
Erika Arner, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Eldora Ellison, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Naveen Modi, Paul Hastings
David Pritikin, Sidley Austin
Chad Shear, Fish & Richardson
Dorothy Whelan, Fish & Richardson
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Goodwin Procter
Jones Day
Marshall Gerstein & Borun
Sidley Austin
WilmerHale
Inter-Partes Review Firm of the Year
Cooley
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Paul Hastings
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Intellectual Property Firm to Watch
Bookoff McAndrews
McNeill Baur
Merchant & Gould
RinLaures
Intellectual Property In-house Team of the Year
Gilead Sciences
GlaxoSmithKline
Johnson & Johnson
Masimo
Merck
Regeneron
Sandoz
Sanofi
Canada
Canadian Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Jill Lawrie, Blake Cassels & Graydon
Peter Pliszka, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Sylvie Rodrigue, Torys
Mary Thomson, Gowling WLG
Canadian Product Liability Firm of the Year
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Gowling WLG
Torys
Canadian In-House Team of the Year
Bayer
Bristol Myers Squibb
Eli Lilly
Johnson & Johnson
Novartis
Roche Laboratories
Takeda
Zimmer
Canadian Life Cycle Firm of the Year
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Gowling WLG
Norton Rose Fulbright
Torys
Canadian Patent Litigation Attorney of the Year
David Aitken, Aitken Klee
Ron Dimock, DLA Piper
Gunars Gaikis, Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
Steven Mason, McCarthy Tétrault
Andrew Skodyn, Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith
Christopher Van Barr, Gowling WLG
Canadian Patent Contentious Firm of the Year
Aitken Klee
Belmore Neidrauer
DLA Piper
Goodmans
Gowling WLG
Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith
McCarthy Tétrault
Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
Torys
Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Attorney of the Year
Julie Desrosiers, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Micheline Gravelle, Bereskin & Parr
Eileen McMahon, Torys
Anthony Prenol, Blake Cassels & Graydon
Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy, DLA Piper
Jay Zakaïb, Gowling WLG
Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Firm of the Year
Bereskin & Parr
Blake Cassels & Graydon
DLA Piper
Gowling WLG
Canadian Rising Star
Melanie Baird, Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith
Sangeetha Punniyamoorthy, DLA Piper
Steve Tanner, McCarthy Tetrault
US Intellectual Property Rising Star
Bryan C Diner, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garret & Dunner
Martina Hufnal, Fish & Richardson
Alicia Russo, Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto
Ha Kung Wong, Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto
US Non-IP Rising Star
Allison Brown, Weil Gotschal & Manges
Jason Mendro, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kim Dunne, Sidley Austin
Leigh Oliver, Hogan Lovells
US Regulatory Rising Star
Joshua Soven, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Michael Heyl, Hogan Lovells
Nancy Stade, Sidley Austin
Preeya Pinto, King & Spalding
US Transactional Rising Star
Aaron Gardner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Cynthia Mazareas, WilmerHale
Kristopher Brown, Dechert
Monica Kolinsky, Wiggin & Dana
Pran Jha, Sidley Austin