Our Accolades
Year-on-year, Carpmaels & Ransford is ranked in the highest tier for Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) and Intellectual Asset Management (IAM)
Carpmaels & Ransford is renowned as a leader in the European IP market and a premier prosecution firm, with an opposition practice that continues to be one of the largest in Europe supported by a fast growing litigation practice. We are unique in that our solicitors, barristers and patent/trade mark attorneys are all members of the same firm and work in the same office which results in a truly integrated team.
“I have worked with a dozen European patent firms and none can match the synergy of the people of Carpmaels. Their expertise, their dynamism, the energy to tackle problems and find solutions, and their ability to achieve success is incomparable to other firms.” – Legal 500, 2022
Recognition within directories and guides:

Carpmaels & Ransford was awarded SPC Litigation Firm of the Year at the 2022 LMG Life Sciences Awards EMEA. Partner Jennifer Antcliff also received SPC Litigator of the Year at the awards.
The annual awards, which are informed by client and peer recommendations, recognise the accomplishments of leading law firms and individuals responsible for innovative work in the life sciences industry across the EMEA region.
Carpmaels & Ransford was awarded Patent Contentious Firm of the Year at the 2022 Managing IP EMEA Awards held in London. The firm also took home the award for Impact Case of the Year for FibroGen v Akebia Therapeutics (England & Wales Court of Appeal).
The Managing IP awards celebrate the in-house teams, firms, and individuals responsible for the most complex and innovative intellectual property work of the past 12 months.


Carpmaels & Ransford was announced as the UK Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year 2021 at the annual Managing Intellectual Property Awards ceremony in London.
The firm was presented with the award following an outstanding year for the entire team. The firm was also top-ranked again for UK Patent Prosecution in the IP Stars Handbook 2020 published by Managing IP. Eight of our partners were recognised as IP stars with another partner and three senior associates recognised as rising stars.