Executive summary
- The 2021 Market Makers demonstrates that leading dealmakers got creative amid the pandemic, resulting in a banner year for value creation across both high tech and life sciences.
- Managing partners from world-class IP law and patent attorney firms report that the changes wrought by covid-19 will have a lasting impact on how they run their practices
- Making the public case for IP protection is an increasingly important role as debates intensify in both high tech and life sciences.
- Executives across the space report that diversity and inclusion efforts are at the top of their agendas, but more data is needed to understand the scope of the challenges.