Attorneys from across the US and Canada gathered last night on September 18 at Essex House in New York for the annual LMG Life Sciences Awards, which honors top-ranking firms and individuals for outstanding legal work in the life sciences sector. This event, which is part of the 2019 research cycle for LMG Life Sciences, presented categories that recognize work in the four main practice areas covered by the guide, including: regulatory; intellectual property; financial and corporate; and litigation and enforcement.
Among the highlights of the night was the induction of three exceptional life sciences attorneys into the Hall of Fame for their remarkable careers dedicated to clients in the industry.
Below is a list of this year’s award winners.
Hall of Fame Inductees
Hemmie Chang
Foley Hoag
Jonathan Kahan
Hogan Lovells
Ann Malester
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Life Cycle awards
US Life Cycle Firm of the Year
Latham & Watkins
Canadian Life Cycle Firm of the Year
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Regulatory
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: FDA Pharmaceuticals
Josephine Torrente
Hyman Phelps & McNamara
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: FDA Medical Devices
Gregory Levine
Ropes & Gray
Regulatory Attorney of the Year: Pricing & Reimbursement
Alice Valder Curran
Hogan Lovells
US Rising Star – Regulatory
Mahnu Davar
Arnold & Porter
Regulatory Firm of the Year
Hogan Lovells
Regulatory Firm to Watch
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Financial & Corporate
Corporate Attorney of the Year
Stuart Cable
Goodwin Procter
Licensing & Collaboration Attorney of the Year
Judith Hasko
Latham & Watkins
M&A Attorney of the Year
Charles Ruck
Latham & Watkins
Corporate Firm of the Year
Goodwin Procter
Licensing & Collaboration Firm of the Year
Cooley
M&A Firm of the Year
Latham & Watkins
Finance & Corporate In-House Team of the Year
Gilead Sciences
Venture Capital Firm of the Year
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
US Rising Star – Finance & Corporate
Megan Baca
Ropes & Gray
Firm to Watch – Finance & Corporate
Baker McKenzie
Litigation & Enforcement
Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Diane Sullivan
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Product Liability Firm of the Year
Butler Snow
Government Investigations Attorney of the Year
Kirk Ogrosky
Arnold & Porter
Government Investigations Firm of the Year
Williams & Connolly
Antitrust Litigator of the Year
Steven Newborn
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Antitrust Firm of the Year
Arnold & Porter
Trial Lawyer of the Year – Non-IP Litigation
Diane Sullivan
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Firm to Watch – Non-IP Litigation
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
WilmerHale
Intellectual Property Boutique Firm of the Year
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
General Patent Litigation Firm of the Year
WilmerHale
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Branded
Bruce Genderson
Williams & Connolly
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Branded
Williams & Connolly
Hatch-Waxman Litigator of the Year – Generic
Shannon Bloodworth
Perkins Coie
Hatch-Waxman Litigation Firm of the Year – Generic
Goodwin Procter
General Patent Litigator of the Year – California
Juanita Brooks
Fish & Richardson
General Patent Litigator of the Year – District of Columbia
Matthew Wolf
Arnold & Porter
General Patent Litigator of the Year – Midwest
David Anstaett
Perkins Coie
General Patent Litigator of the Year – New England
Sarah Columbia
McDermott Will & Emery
General Patent Litigator of the Year – New York
Raymond Nimrod
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – California
Mika Reiner Mayer
Cooley
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – District of Columbia
R Danny Huntington
Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – Massachusetts
Fangli Chen
Proskauer Rose
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – Midwest
Li-Hsien (Lily) Rin-Laures
RinLaures
Patent Strategy & Management Attorney of the Year – New York
Ivor Elrifi
Cooley
Patent Strategy and Management Firm of the Year
Knobbe Martens
Post-Grant Proceedings Attorney of the Year
Eldora Ellison
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Appellate Litigator of the Year – Intellectual Property
Deanne Maynard
Morrison & Foerster
Inter-Partes Review Firm of the Year
Paul Hastings
Intellectual Property Firm to Watch
Desmarais
Intellectual Property In-house Team of the Year
Amgen
US Rising Star – Intellectual Property
Katherine Helm
Dechert
Canada
Canadian Product Liability Attorney of the Year
Gordon McKee
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Canadian Product Liability Firm of the Year
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Canadian In-House Team of the Year
Sandoz Canada
Canadian Patent Litigation Attorney of the Year
Jason Markwell
Belmore Neidrauer
Canadian Patent Contentious Firm of the Year
Belmore Neidrauer
Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Attorney of the Year
Eileen McMahon
Torys
Canadian Patent Non-Contentious Firm of the Year
Bereskin & Parr
Canadian Regulatory Attorney of the Year
Alice Tseng
Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh
Canadian Rising Star
Stephanie Anderson
Belmore Neidrauer
Canadian Finance & Corporate Attorney of the Year
Cheryl Reicin
Torys
Canadian Finance & Corporate Firm of the Year
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Impact Matters of the Year
Canadian Impact Deals of the Year
Sandoz Canada collaborative agreement with Tilray
ABK Biomedical C$40 million Series B financing
CDRD and NEOMED Institute combination to create adMare BioInnovations
Canadian Patent Impact Cases of the Year
Janssen et al v Teva Canada
Bayer v Apotex
Non-IP Litigation Impact Cases of the Year
Johnson & Johnson talcum powder mass tort litigation
Hsu et al v Puma Biotechnology et al
Merck Sharp & Dohme v Albrecht
Financial & Corporate Deals of the Year
AbbVie acquisition of Allergan for $63 billion
Roche acquisition of Spark Technologies for $4.8 billion
Goldfinch Bio collaboration with Gilead Sciences valued at $2.59 billion
Nurix Therapeutics collaboration with Gilead Sciences valued at $2.48 billion
Bristol-Myers Squibb acquisition of Celgene for $74 billion
Patent Impact Cases of the Year
Bayer Healthcare v Baxalta et al
Regents of the University of California et al v Broad Institute et al
Momenta Pharmaceuticals v Bristol-Myers Squibb
Amgen v Sandoz
Hatch-Waxman Impact Cases of the Year
Novartis Pharmaceuticals et al v Breckenridge Pharmaceutical et al
Novartis Pharmaceuticals et al v Ezra Ventures
Teva Pharmaceuticals et al v Sandoz et al
Helsinn Healthcare v Teva Pharmaceuticals
Novartis Pharmaceuticals et al v Breckenridge Pharmaceutical et al
Vanda Pharmaceuticals v West-Ward Pharmaceuticals
Galderma Laboratories v Amneal Pharmaceuticals