Choate provides leading life sciences companies and institutions with integrated legal services that enable our clients to achieve success. Our team of life sciences attorneys, many with advanced degrees, use their scientific and strategic expertise to advise clients on IP protection and strategies, financings, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic transactions. Choate stands out in a legal marketplace which is crowded, intensely competitive and populated by firms which increasingly look, act and think alike. Our unique model leads to a special client experience.

Dechert is a global law firm. Focused on sectors with the greatest complexities, legal intricacies and highest regulatory demands, we excel at delivering practical commercial judgement and deep legal expertise for high-stakes matters. In an increasingly challenging environment, clients look to us to serve them in ways that are faster, sharper and leaner without compromising excellence. We are relentless in serving our clients —delivering the best of the firm to them with entrepreneurial energy and seamless collaboration in a way that is distinctively Dechert.

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value through practical and innovative legal solutions that help our clients succeed. We deliver consistent services across our platform of practices in all matters we undertake. Our clients range from multinationals to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies and include more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 or their subsidiaries. We also advise governments and public sector bodies.

With more than 1,400 legal professionals in 19 cities across the UK, Canada, Continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Gowling WLG provides clients with top-tier legal advice at home and abroad in a range of areas. Our clients have access to in-depth expertise and experience in key global sectors including advanced manufacturing, life sciences, energy, financial services, infrastructure, natural resources, real estate and tech. We see the world through our clients’ eyes, and collaborate across countries, offices, service areas and sectors to help them succeed, no matter how challenging the circumstances. Our culture is, above all, about people and teams.

HGF is one of Europe’s largest firms of IP specialists, with 20 offices throughout Europe. The firm’s patent attorneys, trademark attorneys and IP solicitors provide an integrated IP solution for clients. HGF offers the full range of services expected from leading patent and trademark attorneys and solicitors, but it is our dynamic approach to oppositions and appeals, strategic portfolio development and acquisition due diligence that distinguishes HGF within the IP marketplace. Our specialist teams have expertise and experience covering a range of technical fields including chemistry, engineering, electronics and life sciences.

Our team of life sciences IP lawyers are part of Hogan Lovells’ global network which includes more than 500 life sciences and healthcare lawyers. We work closely with you and each other to tackle tough issues and difficult-to-enter markets—no matter where you are today or want to be tomorrow. We combine a global outlook with local knowledge across the life cycle of IP assets: from development to commercialisation, and licensing through to maturity. We don’t only defend, we help you create and grow. Whether you operate in a traditional life sciences industry or are part of a new generation at the intersection of industries, we are the team for you.

Marshall Gerstein & Borun is exclusively focused on intellectual property law. We are among the world’s leading IP law firms, helping clients achieve their IP goals in more than 150 countries on six continents. The firm assists clients in all phases of the IP life cycle, including securing rights, conducting transactions, and litigating and resolving disputes. Our professionals offer depth of talent and seasoned experience in devising and executing IP strategy and comprehensive IP solutions.

McDermott Will & Emery is an industry-leading law firm offering mission-first business solutions that are equally informed by market intelligence and proven experience. Working with life sciences companies around the world, McDermott’s IP team—most of whom have advanced scientific and technical degrees—provides strategic counselling to develop and manage our clients’ patent portfolios and ensure alignment with business objectives. Combining our top-notch courtroom experience with deep scientific capabilities, we partner with clients to develop comprehensive strategies to maximise the value of their IP. Clients appreciate—and value—our ability to deliver real results.

Milbank is a pre-eminent international law firm operating out of 12 offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more than 150 years, we have provided a broad range of innovative legal services and solutions to our clients, including many of the world’s leading commercial, financial and industrial enterprises, institutions, individuals and governments. Our lawyers offer a highly integrated and collaborative range of services across key practice groups worldwide to help clients achieve their strategic objectives. Milbank’s integrated practice is underpinned by our attorneys’ widely recognised technical excellence, sectoral expertise and strong tradition of innovation and client service.

No firm is better situated than MoFo to understand the convergence of the life sciences industry and data analytics. Our Life Sciences Group advises clients on all legal aspects of life sciences data analytics businesses, including patenting software and AI-related life science inventions, licensing of data, providing counsel on the steps to ensure data privacy and ethical use of data, and guiding clients through the FDA approval process for data-driven diagnostic assays and medical devices. Our life sciences team works with companies at every phase of their growth cycle from conception, protecting and enforcing our clients’ rights.

Pierce Bainbridge is a top-tier litigation firm that is changing the way companies and individuals approach major disputes. We are relentless, creative, and aggressive, and we’re always on the hunt for strategic and tactical advantages that can benefit our clients and secure victory. Our team comprises the finest trial lawyers from the best law schools who trained at the world’s biggest law firms. No matter the odds, we do what it takes to ensure that our clients’ mission-critical litigation objectives are achieved in a way that decisively supports their larger business strategies in the market.

Powell Gilbert is one of the UK’s leading law firms specialising in intellectual property litigation and advisory work. The firm is recognised as top tier for patent litigation in the life sciences sector, its lawyers having been involved in precedent-setting, highly complex pharma, biotech and medical device cases for decades.
With a successful record before the UK Patents Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and in referrals to the European Court of Justice, the team frequently advises on dispute resolution strategy and supports multinational litigation across Europe, in coordination with other jurisdictions.
All the firm’s lawyers have technical backgrounds, ranging from immunology, biochemistry and chemical engineering to molecular biology and computer sciences. Combined with its European litigation experience this makes Powell Gilbert ideally placed to assist clients in the forthcoming Unified Patents Court (UPC), with its Life Sciences Central division due to be based in London.

Ropes & Gray’s life sciences IP team consists of experienced litigators and counsellors, patent agents, and technical advisors who provide clients with a full range of IP-related services covering all stages of the business cycle, from initial patent strategy and litigation to licensing and transactions. Our litigation team includes nationally recognised trial and appellate lawyers who combine scientific expertise with courtroom savvy. Bolstered by solid foundations in chemistry and biotechnology, our team has argued in all the important patent venues: the CAFC, PTAB, and federal district courts, including extensively in the districts of Delaware and New Jersey.

RoyaltyStat is the best-in-class, most up-to-date, and reliable source of royalty rates extracted from licence agreements. RoyaltyStat’s royalty rates are used in transfer pricing, purchase price allocation, reasonable royalty infringement damages, and due diligence connected with tax and intellectual property litigation, business development connected with the acquisition or licensing of intellectual property, bankruptcy, and mergers and acquisitions.

Smart & Biggar is Canada’s largest IP and technology law firm. We work with global and domestic businesses and law firms, to help them secure, protect and maximise the value of their innovations and IP investments in Canada. We are consistently recognised as the leading Canadian IP firm by a wide range of third party domestic and international rankings. Our life sciences practice is one of the leading and most experienced teams in Canada for patent prosecution, IP transactions and licensing, litigation and regulatory issues. The firm works with a variety of clients to develop IP strategies from procurement, to enforcement, to licensing of innovations.

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox is dedicated exclusively to the protection, transfer, and enforcement of IP rights. The firm’s integrated practice helps clients develop IP strategy and freedom-to-operate; prepare and prosecute patents and trademarks globally; and defend and enforce patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the US Supreme Court, and all forums in between. Our team of attorneys, patent agents, students and technical specialists includes some of the most respected practitioners of IP law. Most of our professionals hold advanced level degrees, including more than 50 with master’s degrees and more than 55 with a doctorate in science or engineering.

Sun IP provides streamlined solutions for complex and deadline-driven IP translations and international patent filings needs, including PCT national phase entry, EP validations, and direct national filings. Our industry-leading translation and filing services are reinforced by a world-class technology platform and excellence in client service that seamlessly propels your IP casework throughout the globe. Sun IP’s accurate, timely, and transparent solutions enable clients to reduce costs, streamline the global IP workflow, and efficiently manage international patent budgets. Our translation and foreign filing services are reinforced by a secure, cloud-based technology solution and an unparalleled commitment to client service.

Venable is an American Lawyer Global 100 law firm headquartered in Washington, DC, that serves as primary counsel to a worldwide clientele of large and mid-sized organisations, nonprofits, and high-net-worth entrepreneurs and individuals. With more than 700 attorneys across the country, including in California, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Virginia, and Washington, DC, the firm strategically advances its clients’ business objectives in the US and around the globe. Venable advises clients on a broad range of business and regulatory law, legislative affairs, complex litigation, international trade, and the full range of IP services.

White & Case is a truly global law firm, uniquely positioned to help our clients achieve their ambitions in today’s G20 world. As a pioneering international law firm, our cross-border experience and diverse team of local, US and English-qualified lawyers consistently deliver results for our clients. In established and emerging markets, our lawyers are integral, long-standing members of the community, giving our clients insights into the local business environment alongside our experience in multiple jurisdictions. We work with some of the world’s most respected and well-established banks and businesses, as well as startup visionaries, governments and state-owned entities.

Withers & Rogers is a full service practice providing clients with a comprehensive and highly tailored service to meet their exact intellectual property needs. Strategic IP consultancy is at the core of our service and our position as one of Europe’s leading IP firms enables us to offer high level insights. We offer board level support to a wide range of businesses and effectively match IP planning with wider strategic objectives. Withers & Rogers’ core specialist IP areas are electronics, physics and computing, advanced engineering, life sciences and chemistry, trademarks, registered designs, designs, patents and renewals services.