Ms Elizabeth Weiswasser > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10153
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Ms Elizabeth Weiswasser
Position
Co-Chair of Weil’s global Litigation Department and Co-Head of Weil’s global Patent Litigation and Life Sciences practices
Career
Elizabeth S. Weiswasser is Co-Chair of Weil’s global Litigation Department. With more than twenty-five years of experience, she is regarded as one of country’s foremost patent litigators, frequently serving as lead counsel on behalf of some of the most sophisticated pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies in the world, and is known for her ability to marry deep scientific and patent law expertise, for achieving excellent results in federal court litigation and IPR proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office, and for her strategic counseling in the space. Liz has received wide recognition from clients, her peers, and the broader life sciences industry as a leader in the life sciences and patent litigation fields, and particularly as one of the top women in the profession. She is a former law clerk to Judge Alan D. Lourie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU Law School, where she taught Biotechnology/Life Sciences Patent Law. She is licensed to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office.
Education
Northwestern University (BA); University of Chicago Law School (JD)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
(Leading lawyers)The team at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP handles intellectual property disputes for its clients nationally, often working on high-stakes patent litigation in federal district courts, at the Federal Circuit, the International Trade Commission, and US Patent Office. Members of the team are well-versed in a wide range of industries, with many of the attorneys possessing technical and scientific college degrees. New York-based Elizabeth Weiswasser co-heads the team, a leading patent litigator on matters across biological, pharma, chemical, medical devices, and life sciences sectors in general. Edward Reines is the second head of the team, based in Silicon Valley. with extensive expertise in litigating complex patent cases in the techn and life science industries.
United States > Healthcare > Life sciences
(Leading lawyers)Working across offices in New York and California, the team at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has a ‘wide and deep knowledge’ of life sciences related antitrust, IP, and M&A matters. The team often advises biotech, medical devices, and pharmaceutical companies on licensing agreements, commercial litigations, and false advertising issues. Edward Reines co-heads the practice from Silicon Valley, contributing his broad knowledge of willful patent infringement and contentious IP issues, while New York-based co-head Elizabeth Weiswasser is known for her focus on life science patent litigation, often appearing before the PRAB and ITC for pharmaceutical companies. Jeffrey Osterman and Charan Sandhu jointly lead the technology and IP transactions practice from New York, leveraging their expertise in joint developing agreements, strategic alliances, and technology transfer agreements. Based in Silicon Valley, Derek Walter is noted for his life sciences IP litigation capabilities.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Healthcare > Life sciences
- Leading lawyers United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Life sciences United States > Healthcare
- Patents: litigation (full coverage) United States > Intellectual property
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense