The shortlist for the seventh annual LMG Life Sciences awards has been announced. For the 2019 nominees, please see below.
The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, September 18 2019 at Essex House in New York. To reserve your place, please email Nick Heath on nheath@managingip.com or call +44 (0) 20 7779 8692.
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 Pharmaceuticals
Albert Cacozza, Ropes & Gray
David Fox, Hogan Lovells
Coleen Klasmeier, Sidley Austin
Daniel Kracov, Arnold & Porter
Josephine Torrente, Hyman Phelps & McNamara
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: FDA Medical Devices
Jonathan Kahan, Hogan Lovells
Gregory Levine, Ropes & Gray
Vernessa Pollard, McDermott Will & Emery
Paul Rubin, Debevoise & Plimpton
Jeffrey Shapiro, Hyman Phelps & McNamara
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: Pricing & Reimbursement
Alice Valder Curran, Hogan Lovells
Jeff Handwerker, Arnold & Porter
Paul Radensky, McDermott Will & Emery
John Shakow, King & Spalding
Allison Shuren, Arnold & Porter
US Rising Star – Regulatory
Jacqueline Berman, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Mahnu Davar, Arnold & Porter
Serra Schlanger, Hyman Phelps & McNamara
Christopher Schott, Hogan Lovells
Regulatory Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter
Covington & Burling
Hogan Lovells
Hyman Phelps & McNamara
Sidley Austin
Regulatory Firm to Watch
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Debevoise & Plimpton
Lassman Law+Policy
Mayer Brown
Financial & Corporate
Corporate Attorney of the Year
Laura Berezin, Cooley
Stuart Cable, Goodwin Procter
Stuart Falber, WilmerHale
Peter Handrinos, Latham & Watkins
Asher Rubin, Hogan Lovells
Licensing & Collaboration Attorney of the Year
Adam Golden, Hogan Lovells
Judith Hasko, Latham & Watkins
Barbara Kosacz, Cooley
Kingsley Taft, Goodwin Procter
Steven Wilcox, Ropes & Gray
M&A Attorney of the Year
Michael Bison, Goodwin Procter
Barbara Borden, Cooley
Graham Robinson, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Marc Rubenstein, Ropes & Gray
Charles Ruck, Latham & Watkins
Corporate Firm of the Year
Cooley
Goodwin Procter
Latham & Watkins
Ropes & Gray
WilmerHale
Licensing & Collaboration Firm of the Year
Cooley
Covington & Burling
Goodwin Procter
Hogan Lovells
WilmerHale
M&A Firm of the Year
Cooley
Goodwin Procter
Latham & Watkins
Ropes & Gray
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Finance & Corporate In-House Team of the Year
AbbVie
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Celgene
Gilead Sciences
Novartis
Venture Capital Firm of the Year
Cooley
Goodwin Procter
Latham & Watkins
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
US Rising Star – Financial & Corporate
Nathan Ajiashvili, Latham & Watkins
Sarah Ashfaq, Goodwin Procter
Megan Baca, Ropes & Gray
Amanda Rose, Fenwick & West
Firm to Watch – Financial & Corporate
Baker McKenzie
Duane Morris
Lowenstein Sandler
Litigation & Enforcement
Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Michael Brown, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Lori Cohen, Greenberg Traurig
Tripp Haston, Bradley
Heidi Hubbard, Williams & Connolly
Sherry Knutson, Tucker Ellis
Diane Sullivan, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Pamela Yates, Arnold & Porter
Product Liability Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter
Butler Snow
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
King & Spalding
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Tucker Ellis
Venable
Williams & Connolly
Government Investigations Attorney of the Year
Adam Hoffinger, Schulte Roth & Zabel
Enu Mainigi, Williams & Connolly
Kirk Ogrosky, Arnold & Porter
Edward Sitarchuk, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Wick Sollers, King & Spalding
Peter Spivack, Hogan Lovells
Government Investigations Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter
Goodwin Procter
Hogan Lovells
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Ropes & Gray
Sidley Austin
Williams & Connolly
Antitrust Litigator of the Year
Christopher Curran, White & Case
Saul Morgenstern, Arnold & Porter
Steven Newborn, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Stephen Wu, McDermott Will & Emery
Antitrust Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
McDermott Will & Emery
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Williams & Connolly
Trial Lawyer of the Year – Non-IP Litigation
Allison Brown, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Lori Cohen, Greenberg Traurig
James Hurst, Kirkland & Ellis
Tarek Ismail, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
Diane Sullivan, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Beth Wilkinson, Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz
Bart Williams, Proskauer Rose
Firm to Watch – Non-IP Litigation
Bowman and Brooke
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Drinker Biddle & Reath
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Boutique Firm of the Year
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Knobbe Martens
Rakoczy Molino Mazzochi Siwik
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Branded
Martin Black, Dechert
Gerald Flattmann, King & Spalding
Bruce Genderson, Williams & Connolly
Charles Lipsey, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Lisa Pensabene, O’Melveny Myers
Bruce Wexler, Paul Hastings
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Branded
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Paul Hastings
Venable
Williams & Connolly
WilmerHale
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Generic
Shannon Bloodworth, Perkins Coie
E Anthony Figg, Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck
Elizabeth Holland, Goodwin Procter
George Lombardi, Winston & Strawn
William Rakoczy, Rakoczy Molino Mazzochi Siwik
William Zimmerman, Knobbe Martens
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Generic
Goodwin Procter
Perkins Coie
Rakoczy Molino Mazzochi Siwik
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Winston & Strawn
General Patent Litigator of the Year – California
Juanita Brooks, Fish & Richardson
Daralyn Durie, Durie Tangri
William Gaede, McDermott Will & Emery
David Gindler, Irell & Manella
Siegmund Gutman, Proskauer Rose
Edward Reines, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Michelle Rhyu, Cooley
General Patent Litigator of the Year – District of Columbia
David Berl, Williams & Connolly
James Monroe, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Michael Morin, Latham & Watkins
Christopher Sipes, Covington & Burling
Amy Wigmore, WilmerHale
Matthew Wolf, Arnold & Porter
General Patent Litigator of the Year – Midwest
David Anstaett, Perkins Coie
David Callahan, Latham & Watkins
Sharon Hwang, McAndrews Held & Malloy
David Pritikin, Sidley Austin
Maureen Rurka, Winston & Strawn
General Patent Litigator of the Year – New England
Elaine Blais, Goodwin Procter
Sarah Columbia, McDermott Will & Emery
Barbara Fiacco, Foley Hoag
Anthony Fitzpatrick, Duane Morris
Eric Marandett, Choate Hall & Stewart
Lisa Pirozzolo, WilmerHale
General Patent Litigator of the Year – New York
Jim Badke, Sidley Austin
Nicholas Groombridge, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Robert Gunther, WilmerHale
Keith Hummel, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Jane Love, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Raymond Nimrod, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Elizabeth Weiswasser, Weil Gotshal & Manges
General Patent Litigation Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter
Fish & Richardson
Goodwin Procter
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Sidley Austin
WilmerHale
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – California
Lisa Haile, DLA Piper
Jeffry Mann, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Mika Reiner Mayer, Cooley
Salima Merani, Knobbe Martens
Vern Norviel, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Lorna Tanner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – District of Columbia
Courtenay Brinckerhoff, Foley & Lardner
R Danny Huntington, Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck
Thomas Irving, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Dinesh Melwani, Bookoff McAndrews
Eric Steffe, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – Massachusetts
Scott Bluni, Kacvinsky Daisak Bluni
Fangli Chen, Proskauer Rose
Duncan Greenhalgh, Goodwin Procter
Brenda Jarrell, Choate Hall & Stewart
Andrea Reid, Dechert
Anita Varma, White & Case
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – Midwest
William Boudreaux, Brinks Gilson & Lione
Pamela Cox, Marshall Gerstein & Borun
John Kilyk, Leydig Voit & Mayer
Teresa Lavoie, Fish & Richardson
Jonathan O’Brien, Honigman
Li-Hsien Rin-Laures, RinLaures
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – New York
Adriane Antler, Jones Day
Ivor Elrifi, Cooley
Lisa Ferri, Mayer Brown
Alicia Russo, Venable
Kenneth Sonnenfeld, King & Spalding
Patent Strategy and Management Firm of the Year
Choate Hall & Stewart
Cooley
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Knobbe Martens
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Wolf Greenfield & Sacks
Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year
Eldora Ellison, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Thomas Irving, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Naveen Modi, Paul Hastings
Dorothy Whelan, Fish & Richardson
Emily Whelan, WilmerHale
Appellate Litigator of the Year – Intellectual Property
Nicholas Groombridge, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
William Jay, Goodwin Procter
Deanne Maynard, Morrison & Foerster
Raymond Nimrod, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Edward Reines, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Goodwin Procter
Perkins Coie
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
WilmerHale
Inter-Partes Review Firm of the Year
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Paul Hastings
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
WilmerHale
Intellectual Property Firm to Watch
Desmarais
Carlson Caspers
Honigman
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Intellectual Property In-house Team of the Year
AbbVie
Amgen
Boehringer Ingelheim
Genentech
Gilead Sciences
Mylan
Novartis
Teva
US Rising Star – Intellectual Property
Timothy Best, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Katherine Helm, Dechert
Margaret Ives, Choate Hall & Stewart
Kevin Prussia, WilmerHale
Nimalka Wickramasekera, Winston & Strawn
US Life Cycle Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter
Covington & Burling
Goodwin Procter
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Sidley Austin
WilmerHale
Canada
Canadian Life Cycle Firm of the Year
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Norton Rose Fulbright
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Torys
Canadian Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Scott Maidment, McMillan
Gordon McKee, 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
DLA Piper
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Torys
Canadian In-House Team of the Year
Apotex
Bayer
Gilead Sciences
Janssen
Pfizer Canada
Sandoz Canada
Teva Canada
Canadian Patent Litigation Attorney of the Year
Andrew Brodkin, Goodmans
Gunars Gaikis, Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
Jason Markwell, Belmore Neidrauer
Jordana Sanft, Norton Rose Fulbright
Andrew Shaughnessy, Torys
Peter Wilcox, Belmore Neidrauer
Canadian Patent Contentious Firm of the Year
Aitken Klee
Belmore Neidrauer
Goodmans
Gowling WLG
McCarthy Tétrault
Norton Rose Fulbright
Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Attorney of the Year
Micheline Gravelle, Bereskin & Parr
Brian Kingwell, Gowling WLG
Daphne Lainson, Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
Eileen McMahon, Torys
Anthony Prenol, Blake Cassels & Graydon
Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Firm of the Year
Bereskin & Parr
Gowling WLG
McCarthy Tétrault
Norton Rose Fulbright
Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
Canadian Regulatory Attorney of the Year
Mark Austin, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Eileen McMahon, Torys
Alice Tseng, Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
Ingrid VanderElst, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Sara Zborovski, Norton Rose Fulbright
Canadian Rising Star
Stephanie Anderson, Belmore Neidrauer
Zohaib Maladwala, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Ryan Unruch, Torys
Canadian Financial & Corporate Attorney of the Year
Sylvie Bourdeau, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Joseph Garcia, Blake Cassels & Graydon
Noam Goodman, DLA Piper
Vanessa Grant, Norton Rose Fulbright
Cheryl Reicin, Torys
Canadian Financial & Corporate Firm of the Year
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Norton Rose Fulbright
Stikeman Elliott
Torys