On August 10, 2026, Wilson Sonsini attorney Farah Gerdes was named among the winners of the “Distinguished Leaders” category for Law.com’s 2026 New England Legal Awards. The awards honor attorneys and firms from Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

For nearly a decade in the market, Farah has made herself an integral player in Boston’s thriving life sciences sector, designing collaboration agreements that speed the delivery of innovative treatments to patients who need them. The founder and leader of Wilson Sonsini’s Technology Transactions practice group in Boston, she has built a practice negotiating strategically vital agreements that allow life sciences enterprises to collaborate with partners, develop products, and get to market faster.

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