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February 27, 2023
Latham & Watkins LLP lawyers over the past year were part of a legal team that made history by winning an in-house merger challenge at the Federal Trade Commission over an $8 billion Illumina deal, and secured the approval of Mallinckrodt's Chapter 11 plan that trimmed more than $1 billion in opioid-related claims, accomplishments that landed the firm among Law360's 2022 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 24, 2023
Dechert LLP's life sciences practice group helped Endo Pharmaceuticals get wins in litigation over its Opana ER painkiller, and also aided Tiziana Life Sciences in a complex transaction, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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January 13, 2023
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2022, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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February 17, 2022
Williams & Connolly LLP helped Ionis Pharmaceuticals win a $41.2 million arbitral award and Teva Pharmaceuticals keep a generic cancer drug off the market for a decade, earning it a place among Law360's 2021 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 15, 2022
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP last year guided leaders at PRA Health Inc. through its $12 billion cash-and-stock sale to rival Icon PLC, one of the first and biggest consolidations in the clinical research organization industry, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 14, 2022
Lawyers at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP have spent the past year working on major deals for pharmaceutical giants, including Merck's $11.5 billion acquisition of a cancer and rare disease biotech and its spinoff of a $9 billion women's health care company, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2022
Covington & Burling LLP spent the past year helping clients navigate the changing COVID-19 landscape, notably assisting Moderna in obtaining emergency use authorization for its vaccine while also racking up wins in litigation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2022
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its 2021 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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January 14, 2022
Nine law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 52 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, having steered complex deals and won high-profile victories including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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December 10, 2020
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's life sciences group helped Novartis beat a challenge over its multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya and advised on a number of biotech initial public offerings, landing it a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Life Science Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Dechert LLP has helped Eli Lilly fend off a suit accusing it of infringing a Genentech patent through the sale of a psoriasis drug and continued to guide Purdue Pharma LP through sprawling opioid litigation, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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December 08, 2020
Attorneys at Covington & Burling LLP served this year as counsel to Gilead Sciences during its quest for emergency use authorization of a COVID-19 treatment and defeated claims that a pharmaceutical company took part in helping fund an anti-American militia in Iraq, winning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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December 07, 2020
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's life sciences practice group is a small but mighty team of two attorneys who landed a number of litigation wins over the past year, including a $62.5 million settlement in a pay-for-delay class action against Allergan over its birth control drug, landing the group among Law360's 2020 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Arnold & Porter has spent the year helping AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP ink deals to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine developed with the University of Oxford, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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November 25, 2020
The eight law firms topping Law360's Firms of the Year managed to win 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, for guiding landmark deals, scoring victories in high-profile disputes and helping companies navigate uncharted legal seas made rough by the coronavirus pandemic.
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November 25, 2020
Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2020 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.
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February 13, 2020
Sidley Austin LLP led Bayer Healthcare to a $155 million patent verdict against Takeda Pharmaceutical unit Baxalta Inc. for infringing a hemophilia treatment patent and reeled in multibillion-dollar transactions, like Fortive's $2.7 billion purchase of Johnson & Johnson's medical sterilization unit, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2020
Latham & Watkins LLP was rewarded for taking a biotech company's securities class action to trial and backed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as it enforced restrictions on compounding drugs, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
King & Spalding LLP has helped pharmaceutical companies — such as Johnson & Johnson, Actelion and Galderma — fight product liability claims, defend against government investigations and protect their drug products, making it one of Law360's 2019 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
Fish & Richardson PC helped the Mayo Clinic defeat a diagnostic test patent suit and protected patents covering Allergan's eye medication Combigan, all while getting a pair of biotech companies ready for multibillion-dollar acquisitions, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2020
Covington & Burling LLP has defended Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals in various lawsuits over its blood thinner Pradaxa and helped Eli Lilly & Co. get a massive win in arbitration, landing the firm among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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January 11, 2020
Law360's top seven Firms of the Year cleaned up at the 2019 Practice Group of the Year awards, notching a combined 46 wins after spending the past year helping companies navigate blockbuster deals and secure key high court rulings.
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January 10, 2020
Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2019 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.
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January 18, 2019
White & Case LLP helped protect Par Pharmaceuticals from facing class claims in a Georgia drug pricing suit, got a grant of class certification overturned by the First Circuit and represented Pfizer in a key bellwether case against Johnson & Johnson regarding the emerging biosimilar market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2019
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has amassed numerous wins in federal court in the past year — including a nearly $27 million jury win for Illumina Inc. in a patent suit — landing its life sciences team among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.