Managing IP EMEA Awards 2025: shortlists revealed

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 online and then announce the winners at a gala dinner.

This year’s ceremony will be hosted at the Royal Lancaster London on April 10.

Our business development manager, Prin Shasiharan, will contact the shortlisted companies, firms, and individuals about the ceremony. In the meantime, you can show your interest by completing this booking form. Please contact Prin if you require the official awards logo or if you or your firm/company would like to attend the event.

We review our categories each year, taking into account market feedback and important industry developments. Below are the categories and shortlists for this year's programme. Special awards, including Impact Cases, will be announced at the ceremony.

Last year we introduced one regional Unified Patent Court (UPC) Firm of the Year award category, which was won by Bardehle Pagenberg. This year, we have expanded the UPC category to cover four jurisdictions. The aim is to recognise more firms that were involved in shaping the law and practice at the UPC in 2024. We have also added Greece and the IP Transactions Lawyer of the Year category for the UK.

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.

We will publish the shortlists for the Americas Awards this month. The ceremony for the Americas Awards will be hosted in New York City on April 24. We are planning to host the Asia-Pacific Awards ceremony later this year.

All the information about this year's awards will be available on our Awards page.

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

Impact Cases

Europe Cross-Border Patent Litigation Team

Last year, more than 600 guests joined us at the London Hilton on Park Lane to find out who won in a whole host of categories. Read about the ceremony and all the winners here, and listen to what some of the guests said in the short video below.

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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 (part of Delinian) 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.