Leif Sigmond and his team at Baker & Hostetler land runners-up honors this week for their continued work for Siemens Gamesa in a patent showdown over wind turbine technology with General Electric. After a Massachusetts jury this summer awarded Siemens Gamesa a royalty rate of $30,000 per megawatt for infringement, or roughly $60 million, U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston issued an injunction last week barring GE from making, selling, importing or installing its flagship Haliade-X offshore wind turbines in the U.S. The team representing Siemens Gamesa also included Michael Gannon, Daniel Goettle, Jason Hoffman, Cy Walker, Stephanie Hatzikyriakou and Elizabeth Sneitzer of Baker & Hostetler as well as Alissa Lipton and Cory Bell of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. 

Another runners-up spot goes to Meredith Kotler and Mary Eaton of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, who beat back a securities class action against AstraZeneca, its CEO, and several other executives regarding the company's disclosures surrounding its COVID-19 vaccine. Shareholders alleged the company failed to adequately disclose that some clinical trial participants were only given half the designed dose and that the trial didn't include enough participants over age 55, among other things. But U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken in Manhattan this week dismissed the case with prejudice on the first round of briefing. "Even if defendants had access to the omitted facts, the nondisclosures here do not raise a strong inference of conscious misbehavior or recklessness," the judge wrote. The Freshfield team includes senior associates Marques Tracy and Adam Rosenfeld.

Andrew Rossman and Nicholas Hoy of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan land a runner-up spot for scoring a major reversal at the Delaware Supreme Court for a group of trusts connected to financier Samuel Heyman in a long-running environmental liability showdown with Ashland, a leading global specialty chemical company. Ashland purchased International Specialty Products Inc. from the Heyman parties for $3.2 billion in 2011 and claimed they should pay for off-site cleanup in Arthur Kill, the tidal strait between Staten Island. The Delaware high court, however, found this week that the agreements in question "unambiguously excludes all off-site liabilities," reversing a summary judgment win for Ashland.