Our International Life Sciences Team were honoured to be named International Firm of the Year at the LMG Life Sciences EMEA Awards Ceremony 2026, in London on 4 June 2026. The team took home eight awards in total, with Sally Shorthose being the proud recipient of the coveted Hall of Fame award, recognising her outstanding contribution to the industry.
The wins span a broad range of practice areas and geographies, underscoring the firm’s outstanding depth of expertise across the EMEA region.
The firm’s exceptional performance at this year’s awards reflects its continued commitment to delivering market-leading legal advice to clients across the life sciences industry, from regulatory matters and intellectual property disputes to capital markets transactions.
Bird & Bird secured the following eight awards:
- International Firm of the Year
- Hall of Fame Award: Sally Shorthose
- UK Regulatory Firm of the Year
- Italy Firm of the Year
- Regulatory Rising Star: Pieter Erasmus
- Litigation Impact Case: CureVac/GSK v. Pfizer/BioNTech – EPO Board of Appeal Decision on EP 1 857 122 (2025)
- Capital Markets & Financing Impact Deal: Fujifilm / Aquilant Endoscopy
- Capital Markets & Financing Impact Deal: Owkin – Bioptimus Series A
The Impact Case and Deal awards are particularly highly regarded as they look to recognise firms and in-house teams that have been involved in the more impactful case decisions and/or transactions within the life sciences industry from the previous calendar year.
“Winning such an array of awards, especially International Firm of the Year, UK Regulatory Firm of the Year, and Italy Firm of the Year is a remarkable achievement – but it did not happen by accident. It reflects years of investment in building a genuinely international, multidisciplinary, Life Sciences sector, and an unwavering commitment to the delivery of high quality of advice we provide our clients across every jurisdiction we operate in. We are particularly delighted to see Sally and Pieter recognised for their fantastic individual awards.”
The LMG Life Sciences EMEA annual awards celebrate the region’s most distinguished legal practitioners, law firms, and impactful legal work across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
The full list of awards and winners will be shortly published here.
