Debevoise & Plimpton LLP was named 2017 Law Firm of the Year for Trademark Contentious in the Northeast at Managing Intellectual Property’s 10th annual North America Awards. The awards recognize outstanding work by law firms, in-house teams and individuals in the United States and Canada. The Trade Mark Contentious category recognizes the best law firm in the past year that has excelled in matters where there is a dispute or potential dispute involving trademarks between parties.

Consistently placed in the top-tier by Chambers Global, the Intellectual Property Group at Debevoise & Plimpton enjoys a position of extraordinary prominence, including being selected as Managing Intellectual Property’s “Trademark Contentious Firm of the Year” in five of the last ten years. The Group handles a wide variety of cases around the nation, including trademark, trade dress and advertising disputes; copyright matters in media and entertainment; right of publicity issues; and unfair competition and trade secret cases. Many of its cases have cross-border components or including requests for preliminary injunctions, and it has deep experience across a wide range of industries.

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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective and strong New York roots. The firm’s commercially savvy lawyers regularly lead strategic transactions and complex disputes for world-class clients.