Ropes & Gray Honored with Managing IP Americas Award for U.S. Firm of the Year—PTAB and Two Impact Deals of the Year

At a ceremony on April 25, Ropes & Gray was honored with the Managing IP Americas Awards 2024 for “U.S. Firm of the Year—PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board).”

The firm was recognized for “Impact Deal of the Year for Novo Nordisk and Valo Health $2.7 Billion Collaboration Agreement” led by IP transactions partner Hannah England and IP transactions associate Ian Nilsen. We advised Novo Nordisk in the Valo Health collaboration to discover and develop novel treatments for cardiometabolic diseases such as heart attack, stroke and diabetes using real-world patient data and artificial intelligence machine learning models to accelerate the process of discovering and developing new small molecule therapies.

We were also awarded “Impact Deal of the Year for Eli Lilly and TRexBio $1.1 Billion Collaboration Agreement” led by IP transactions partner Abigail Gregor and IP transactions associate Ian Nilsen. The firm represented TRexBio in a multi-year research collaboration and exclusive worldwide license agreement with Eli Lily and Company to develop novel therapies for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases.

Ropes & Gray’s intellectual property practice combines a deep understanding of the latest legal developments with cutting-edge technical and scientific knowledge to offer an all-inclusive suite of IP services.

The firm’s global IP work covers a wide range of industries, including life sciences, technology and media, retail and consumer, private equity and financial services, and health care and education. In the highly competitive world of intellectual property, Ropes & Gray’s IP attorneys are regularly recognized for their legal acumen by Chambers, The Legal 500, U.S. News & World Report, Managing Intellectual Property, Intellectual Asset Management and other national and global publications.

The prestigious Managing IP awards cover a broad range of IP practice areas and more than 50 jurisdictions. The research was primarily conducted by the Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars research analysts who obtained information from thousands of firms, IP practitioners and their clients. Winners were selected based upon work completed in the past year and matters of great significance to clients, IP law and the legal practice.