Managing IP Asia-Pacific Awards 2025: the shortlists

The Managing IP Awards programme recognises remarkable intellectual property achievements and developments in the last year. Now in its 20th year, the awards cover several IP practice areas and more than 50 jurisdictions. Our research methodology can be found below.

The format of the programme is to publish the shortlists (see below) and then announce the winners at a special ceremony.

The winners, including Impact Case winners, will be announced during a gala dinner at Hilton Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, on November 6 2025.

If you would like to attend or learn more about the ceremony, please contact Fan Yeung. If you have any feedback or suggestions about the shortlists or believe your firm's cases should be recognised as Impact Cases, please contact our research team.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted firms, companies, and practitioners.

The Managing IP Awards programme is the most comprehensive and widely respected IP law firm awards event in the legal industry. Now in its 20th year, the programme covers several IP practice areas and more than 50 jurisdictions. Read about the practice areas and award categories here.

Each year, our research analysts obtain information from thousands of firms, IP practitioners, and their clients through interviews, email, and online surveys. We ask firms and in-house teams to complete their respective research forms here. This year's awards are based on last year's developments and information.

Before compiling the shortlists, our researchers evaluated work data supplied by firms and, where applicable, reviewed publicly available information such as court and IP office records. They focused on work done or concluded in the previous year, particularly looking for case studies that were of great significance to clients and/or IP law and practice. Firms, companies, and individuals can also win an award or be shortlisted based on our independent research findings alone.

Except for the Global Firm of the Year award, we can only shortlist up to eight firms for the national firm award categories and up to 10 firms for the Global Firm of the Year award. The in-house and practitioner award categories can have up to 12 nominees.

The research for the IP STARS rankings and the Managing IP Awards programme is rigorous and impartial. There is no fee to pay to participate in our research, but participation does not guarantee recognition. The awards are not influenced by any commercial relationship with Managing IP, and no firm or individual can pay to influence the results. Any firm, regardless of its ranking in IP STARS, can win the Managing IP award.

The Managing IP Awards programme is distinct and separate from any other legal industry awards programmes organised by the Legal Benchmarking Group and promoted on our website.

Please contact our research team if you have research-related enquiries about the Managing IP Awards programme.

Managing IP launched its awards programme in 2006. The ceremonies attract hundreds of guests, including in-house counsel and prominent public officials in the IP industry. The programme is widely regarded as the premier IP law firm awards event in the legal industry. Previous winners of the Managing IP Awards can be found here.