Managing IP Americas Awards 2025: shortlists announced

The Managing IP Awards programme recognises remarkable IP achievements and developments in the last year. Now in its 20th year, the awards cover several intellectual property practice areas and more than 50 jurisdictions. Please read the research methodology below.

After months of research, we have started publishing the shortlists for the 20th annual Managing IP Awards programme. The EMEA Awards 2025 shortlists have already been announced, and the Asia-Pacific shortlists will be published in the summer. Please keep an eye on our social media channels (e.g. here and here) for updates.

The Americas Awards ceremony

We will reveal all the Americas Awards winners, including Impact Case winners, during a gala dinner in New York City.

Our Americas business development manager George Reeves will contact all the shortlisted law firms, companies and individuals about the date and venue for the ceremony.

Please contact George if you require the official awards logo or if you or your firm/company would like to attend the event.

If you have any feedback or suggestions about the shortlists or believe your firm's cases should be recognised as Impact Cases, please contact Chris Adams.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted firms, companies and individuals.

Impact Cases of the Year

 

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.

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.

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.

If you have questions or feedback about the Americas Awards, please contact Chris Adams. Readers can also contact our head of research Kingsley Egbuonu 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. It is widely regarded as the premier IP law firm awards event in the legal industry. The previous winners of the Managing IP Awards can be found here.