Tessa Schwartz Named a Finalist for The American Lawyer Industry Awards 2022
The American Lawyer’s Prestigious Industry Awards Honor ‘History Makers and Innovators’
Tessa Schwartz Named a Finalist for The American Lawyer Industry Awards 2022
The American Lawyer’s Prestigious Industry Awards Honor ‘History Makers and Innovators’
The American Lawyer has chosen firmwide managing partner Tessa Schwartz as a finalist in the competitive “Corporate Attorney of the Year” category for its annual Industry Awards. Selecting from over 700 submissions, the awards highlight the lawyers, business professionals, law firms, and organizations that are elevating the profession to new heights.
Tessa is consistently at the helm of high-impact and headline-making IP, commercial, and M&A transactions for clients, and is highly acclaimed for counseling companies on intellectual property issues and negotiating complex intellectual property and commercial agreements. She advises clients on a range of strategic transactions, including key patent licenses and acquisitions, technology procurement agreements, and complex development, collaboration, joint venture, and distribution deals. Tessa also regularly counsels companies on the IP aspects of their M&A transactions. Tessa was recently honored in Variety’s Dealmakers Impact Report 2021 for her role advising Unity, a leading platform for creating and operating interactive real-time 3D content, on its $1.625 billion acquisition of assets of Weta Digital.
Tessa is one of only eight finalists in the “Corporate Attorney of the Year” category. Other finalists include Michael Aiello of Weil, Gothsal & Manges, Atif Azher of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Scott Barshay of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Cheryl Chan of Davis Polk & Wardwell, Tad Freese of Latham & Watkins, Ken Lefkowitz of Hughes Hubbard & Reed and Rezwan Pavri of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Winners will be named at The American Lawyer Industry Awards gala in New York City on November 10. View the full list of finalists.