Litigator of the Week Runners-Up

Dan Donovan, Judson Brown, Leah Hamlin, Neil Joseph and Grace Brier were recognized as runners-up for The American Lawyer Litigation Daily's "Litigator of the Week" for their work for Gilead Sciences' subsidiary Immunomedics.

"... A Kirkland & Ellis team led by Dan Donovan and Judson Brown helped Gilead Sciences’ subsidiary Immunomedics beat back claims from company founder David Goldenberg. Goldenberg claimed that Immunomedics, the developer of Trodelvy, a treatment for triple-negative breast cancer, owed him a billion dollars under the revenue-sharing provision of his former employment agreement, or alternatively 1.5% of Gilead’s aggregate net revenue across all businesses, or $365 million. But Delaware Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster this week sided with the company, finding that the Trodelvy business did not generate positive net income for any year covered under the agreement and that Goldenberg was “entitled to zero.” The team representing Immunomedics included Kirkland’s Leah Hamlin, Neil Joseph and Grace Brier, as well as David Teklits and Alexandra Cumings of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell and Gilead in-house lawyers Janet Kwuon, Shirley Cantin and Christina Wong."