The Americas shortlists for the 17th annual Managing IP Awards ceremony are now live. The event will be returning to an in-person format and will be hosted at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel.
The Managing IP Awards programme recognises remarkable achievements and developments over the past year. Please read about our research methodology below.
The traditional format of the programme is to publish the shortlists online and then reveal all the winners at a special gala dinner. We hosted a virtual Americas Awards ceremony last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are delighted to announce that this year’s ceremony will be hosted at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York City on April 7.
Our Americas business development manager George Reeves will contact all the shortlisted law firms, companies and individuals about the ceremony.
2022 programme timeline
April 6: Asia-Pacific Awards shortlists announcement
April 7: Americas Awards ceremony (Lotte New York Palace Hotel, New York City)
April 27: EMEA Awards shortlists announcement
June 1: Asia-Pacific Awards ceremony (virtual event)
June 15: EMEA Awards ceremony (London, venue TBC)
Below are the categories and shortlists for this year’s awards. The impact case awards will be revealed at the ceremony. We will publish further announcements about this year’s programme in due course.
Congratulations to all the firms and individuals shortlisted this year.
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
ARGENTINA
Firm of the Year
Berton Moreno IP Law
Marval O’ Farrell & Mairal
Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno
Ojam Bullrich Flanzbaum
Palacio & Asociados
BOLIVIA
Firm of the Year
Cervieri Monsuárez
Ferrere Abogados
Moreno Baldivieso
PPO Abogados
BRAZIL
Patent
Bhering Advogados
Daniel Law
Dannemann Siemsen
Di Blasi Parente & Associados
Gusmão & Labrunie
Licks Attorneys
Trademark
Barbosa Müssnich Aragão (BMA)
Daniel Law
Dannemann Siemsen
Gusmão & Labrunie
Licks Attorneys
Montaury Pimenta Machado & Vieira de Mello
Copyright & Design
Bhering Advogados
Daniel Law
Demarest Advogados
Gusmão & Labrunie
Montaury Pimenta Machado & Vieira de Mello
Trench Rossi Watanabe
CARIBBEAN
Firm of the Year
HSM IP
Miniño Abogados
Troncoso y Cáceres
Troncoso Leroux
Ulises Cabrera
CENTRAL AMERICA
Firm of the Year
Arias
BLP
Central Law
LatinAlliance
CHILE
Firm of the Year
Albagli Zaliasnik
Alessandri
Carey
Sargent & Krahn
Silva
COLOMBIA
Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Brigard Castro
Cavelier Abogados
Lloreda Camacho & Co
Olarte Moure & Asociados
ECUADOR
Firm of the Year
Bustamante Fabara
CorralRosales
Fabara Abogados
Romero Corral Abogados
Tobar ZVS
MEXICO
Patent
Arochi & Lindner
Becerril Coca & Becerril
Dumont
Olivares
Uhthoff Gómez Vega & Uhthoff
Trademark
Arochi & Lindner
Baker McKenzie
Dumont
Mendez + Cortes
Olivares
Uhthoff Gómez Vega & Uhthoff
PANAMA
Firm of the Year
Estudio Benedetti
Cedeño & Méndez
Guinard & Noriega
Icaza González-Ruiz & Alemán
PERU
Firm of the Year
Allende & Garcia
BARLAW - Barrera & Asociados
Barreda Moller
Estudio Colmenares & Asociados
Estudio Echecopar
URUGUAY
Firm of the Year
Cervieri Monsuárez
Fernández Secco & Asociados
Fischer Abogados
Fox & Lapenne
VENEZUELA
Firm of the Year
Antequera Parilli & Rodríguez
Bolet & Terrero
Hoet & Partners
Baker McKenzie
PRACTITIONER OF THE YEAR
Juan Carlos Amaro, Becerril, Coca & Becerril (Mexico)
Adriana Barrera, BARLAW - Barrera & Asociados (Peru)
Alberto R Berton Moreno Jr, Berton Moreno IP Law (Argentina)
Laura Collada, Dumont (Mexico)
Juan Pablo Concha, Baker McKenzie (Colombia)
João Vieira da Cunha, Gusmão & Labrunie (Brazil)
José Carlos Vaz e Dias, Vaz e Dias Advogados & Associados (Brazil)
Audrey Williams, Estudio Benedetti (Panama)
NORTH AMERICA
CANADA
Copyright
Cassells Brock & Blackwell
Gowling WLG
McCarthy Tétrault
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Torys
Patent Contentious
Goodmans
Gowling WLG
McCarthy Tétrault
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Smart & Biggar
Patent Prosecution
Bereskin & Parr
Borden Ladner Gervais
Gowling WLG
Smart & Biggar
Torys
Trademark Contentious
Bereskin & Parr
Borden Ladner Gervais
Gowling WLG
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Smart & Biggar
Trademark Prosecution
Bereskin & Parr
Borden Ladner Gervais
Gowling WLG
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Smart & Biggar
IP Transactions
Bennett Jones
Gowling WLG
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
McCarthy Tétrault
Smart & Biggar
IP Boutique
Bereskin & Parr
CPST Intellectual Property
Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus
Marks & Clerk
Smart & Biggar
Practitioner of the Year (Copyright)
Casey Chisick, Cassels Brock & Blackwell
John Cotter, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Barry Sookman, McCarthy Tétrault
D Lynne Watt, Gowling WLG
Practitioner of the Year (Trademark)
Shelagh Carnegie, Gowling WLG
Mark Evans, Smart & Biggar
Lorne Lipkus, Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus
Donna White, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Justine Wiebe, Borden Ladner Gervais
Practitioner of the Year (Patent)
Steven Garland, Smart & Biggar
Dominique Hussey, Bennett Jones
Eileen McMahon, Torys
Christopher Van Barr, Gowling WLG
Bradley White, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
UNITED STATES
REGIONAL CATEGORIES
Patent Prosecution (Northeast)
Banner Witcoff
Bookoff McAndrews
Choate Hall & Stewart
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Goodwin Procter
McDermott Will & Emery
Patent Prosecution (South)
Baker McKenzie
Conley Rose
Haynes and Boone
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Munck Wilson Mandala
Patent Prosecution (Midwest)
Armstrong Teasdale
Banner Witcoff
Brooks Kushman
Dickinson Wright
Honigman
McAndrews Held & Malloy
Patent Prosecution (West)
Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness
Dorsey & Whitney
Fenwick & West
Holland & Hart
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
Patent Contentious (Northeast)
Arnold & Porter
Desmarais
Goodwin Procter
Paul Hastings
Williams & Connolly
WilmerHale
Patent Contentious (South)
Fish & Richardson
Haynes and Boone
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
McKool Smith
Susman Godfrey
Patent Contentious (Midwest)
Dickinson Wright
Husch Blackwell
Kirkland & Ellis
McAndrews Held & Malloy
Robins Kaplan
Sidley Austin
Patent Contentious (West)
Cooley
Durie Tangri
Fish & Richardson
Knobbe Martens
Kramer Levin
O'Melveny & Myers
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Trademark Prosecution (Northeast)
Arent Fox
Cowan Liebowitz & Latman
Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu
Kelly IP
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Trademark Prosecution (South)
Alston & Bird
Baker McKenzie
Haynes and Boone
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Pirkey Barber
Trademark Prosecution (Midwest)
Brooks Kushman
Crowell & Moring
Greenberg Traurig
Honigman
Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson
Trademark Prosecution (West)
Dickinson Wright
Fenwick & West
Holland & Hart
Loeb & Loeb
Perkins Coie
Trademark Contentious (Northeast)
Debevoise & Plimpton
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu
Kelly IP
Kirkland & Ellis
Trademark Contentious (South)
Alston & Bird
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
King & Spalding
Haynes and Boone
Pirkey Barber
Trademark Contentious (Midwest)
Greenberg Traurig
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Loeb & Loeb
Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson
Robins Kaplan
Trademark Contentious (West)
Cooley
Fenwick & West
Kirkland & Ellis
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Sideman & Bancroft
Copyright (East)
Cowan Liebowitz & Latman
Kirkland & Ellis
Oppenheim + Zebrak
Proskauer
Pryor Cashman
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Copyright (West)
Durie Tangri
Fenwick & West
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
King & Spalding
Loeb & Loeb
O’Melveny & Myers
NATIONAL CATEGORIES – US
Patent Prosecution
Fenwick & West
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Patent Contentious
Arnold & Porter
Fish & Richardson
Kirkland & Ellis
O'Melveny & Myers
Sidley Austin
WilmerHale
Trademark Prosecution
Arent Fox
Fenwick & West
Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu
Kelly IP
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Trademark Contentious
Debevoise & Plimpton
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Kirkland & Ellis
Pirkey Barber
Copyright
Fenwick & West
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Loeb & Loeb
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Appellate
Arnold & Porter
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Kirkland & Ellis
Sidley Austin
WilmerHale
ITC
Adduci Mastriani & Schaumberg
Alston & Bird
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Kirkland & Ellis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Life Sciences IP Litigation
Arnold & Porter
Durie Tangri
Goodwin Procter
Perkins Coie
Rakoczy Molino Mazzochi Siwik
Weil Gotshal & Manges
IP Transactions
Arnold & Porter
Cooley
Fenwick & West
Ropes & Gray
Weil Gotshal & Manges
PTAB
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Haynes and Boone
Ropes & Gray
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
IP Boutique
Desmarais
Durie Tangri
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Firm to Watch
Allen & Overy
BrownRudnick
Crowell & Moring
Practitioner of the Year (PTAB)
Brent Babcock, Loeb & Loeb
Monica Grewal, WilmerHale
Yung-Hoon (Sam) Ha, Desmarais
Scott McKeown, Ropes & Gray
Naveen Modi, Paul Hastings
Sandip Patel, Marshall Gerstein & Borun
Karl Renner, Fish & Richardson
Practitioner of the Year (Patent Prosecution)
Les Bookoff, Bookoff McAndrews
Michael Drapkin, Holland & Hart
Brenda Jarrell, Choate Hall & Stewart
Jonathan O’Brien, Honigman
Rajiv Patel, Fenwick & West
Ahsan Shaikh, McDermott Will & Emery
Terri Shieh-Newton, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
Practitioner of the Year (Trademark Prosecution)
Glenn Gundersen, Dechert
Jennifer Ko Craft, Dickinson Wright
Anthony Lupo, Arent Fox
Purvi Patel Albers, Haynes and Boone
Monica Riva Talley, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
Karen Webb, Fenwick & West
Brian Winterfeldt, Winterfeldt IP
Practitioner of the Year (IP Transactions)
Hannah England, Ropes & Gray
Bruce Goldner, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Devika Kornbacher, Vinson & Elkins
Alan Leeds, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Thomas Magnani, Arnold & Porter
Jeffrey Osterman, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Practitioner of the Year (Appellate)
Debbie Berman, Jenner & Block
Thomas Goldstein, Goldstein & Russell
Robert Hochman, Sidley Austin
John O’Quinn, Kirkland & Ellis
Mark Perry, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Joshua Rosenkranz, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
STATE CATEGORIES
Litigator of the Year
California
Adam Alper, Kirkland & Ellis
Morgan Chu, Irell & Manella
Daralyn Durie, Durie Tangri
Heidi Keefe, Cooley
Lisa Kobialka, Kramer Levin
Edward Reines, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Chad Shear, Fish & Richardson
Darin Snyder, O’Melveny & Myers
Colorado
Timothy Getzoff, Holland & Hart
Justin Krieger, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Evan Rothstein, Arnold & Porter
Mindy Sooter, WilmerHale
Amanda Tessar, Perkins Coie
Delaware
Jack Blumenfeld, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell
Frederick Cottrell, Richards Layton & Finger
Anne Shea Gaza, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor
Martina Tyreus Hufnal, Fish & Richardson
Karen Keller, Shaw Keller
DC Metro
Danny Awdeh, Finnegan Henderson Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Shannon Bloodworth, Perkins Coie
Shamita Etienne-Cummings, Allen & Overy
Bassam Ibrahim, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
Gregory Lantier, WilmerHale
Michael McKeon, Fish & Richardson
Thomas Steindler, McDermott Will & Emery
Matthew Wolf, Arnold & Porter
Georgia
Russell Blythe, King & Spalding
Bill Brewster, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Amanda Groover Hyland, Taylor English Duma
Robin McGrath, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Jason Rosenberg, Alston & Bird
Illinois
Caryn Borg-Breen, Green Griffith & Borg-Breen
Gianni Cutri, Kirkland & Ellis
Thomas Duston, Marshall Gerstein & Borun
Floyd Mandell, Katten Muchin Rosenman
Douglas Masters, Loeb & Loeb
Thomas Rein, Sidley Austin
Massachusetts
Sarah Chapin Columbia, McDermott Will & Emery
William Lee, WilmerHale
Eric Marandett, Choate Hall & Stewart
Michael Renaud, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo
Frank Scherkenbach, Fish & Richardson
Daryl Wiesen, Goodwin Procter
Michigan
John S Artz, Dickinson Wright
Glenn Forbis, Harness IP
J Michael Huget, Honigman
John LeRoy, Brooks Kushman
Minnesota
Betsy Flanagan, Fish & Richardson
Andrew Hansen, Fox Rothschild
Christopher Larus, Robins Kaplan
J Derek Vandenburgh, Carlson Caspers
J Thomas Vitt, Jones Day
New York
Bruce Baber, King & Spalding
David Bernstein, Debevoise & Plimpton
Dale Cendali, Kirkland & Ellis
John Desmarais, Desmarais
Eric Dittmann, Paul Hastings
Robert Gunther, WilmerHale
Deepro Mukerjee, Katten Muchin Rosenman
Elizabeth Weiswasser, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Pennsylvania
Robert Baron Jr, Ballard Spahr
Martin Black, Dechert
Julie Goldemberg, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Philip Hirschhorn, Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel
Steven Maslowski, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Texas
Samuel Baxter, McKool Smith
William Peterson, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Hilary Preston, Vinson & Elkins
Theodore Stevenson, Alston & Bird
Travis Wimberly, Pirkey Barber
Washington
Theo Angelis, K&L Gates
John Denkenberger, Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness
Andres Healy, Susman Godfrey
Melanie Mayer, Fenwick & West
Carol Pitzel Cruz, Knobbe Martens
SPECIAL AWARDS
Firm of the Year for IP – Americas
Baker McKenzie
DLA Piper
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Norton Rose Fulbright
In-house IP Leader of the Year
Brett Alten, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Trevor Arnold, Arthrex
Blake Biederman, The Dow Chemical Company
Colette Durst, 3M
Kerry Flynn, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Renny Hwang, Google
Colman Ragan, Teva Pharmaceuticals
Sara Ramos, Novartis
In-house Copyright Team of the Year
Cloudflare
Getty Images
Google
Oracle
Sirius XM Radio
In-house Patent Team of the Year
American Axle
Arthrex
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Intel
Regeneron
Samsung Electronics America
Teva Pharmaceuticals
Verizon
In-house Trademark Team of the Year
Adidas
The Coca-Cola Company
Frito-Lay
Hetronic International
Nike
Walmart
The Walt Disney Company
Research methodology
The Managing IP Awards programme is the most comprehensive and widely respected IP law firm awards event in the legal industry. Now in its 17th 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.
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 or individuals can also be shortlisted based on the researcher's independent research findings.
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 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 Euromoney and promoted on our website.
Please contact Chris Adams or Kingsley Egbuonu if you have any questions about the Managing IP Americas Awards.
History of the Managing IP Awards
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. It is widely regarded as the premier IP law firm awards event in the legal industry. In total, more than 1,000 guests attended the ceremonies in 2019 and 2020.
The Managing IP Awards programme has evolved and grown over the years. We now host regional ceremonies instead of a global ceremony in London, and the research covers more than seven practice areas and over 50 jurisdictions.
See all the previous winners here.
