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Alberto Pliego

Alberto Pliego

Position

Partner at Pérez-Llorca México

Career

Alberto has over 16 years of experience as an Intellectual Property attorney, providing legal counsel to domestic and foreign companies, as well as to individuals, mainly on trademarks, copyrights, litigation, franchising, licensing, and distribution.

His experience includes advising clients from different industries in both consulting and litigation matters related to the protection and defence of intellectual property rights, as well as the negotiation, drafting and execution of franchise agreements, licenses, distribution and, more broadly, different types of intellectual property contracts.

Alberto represents clients from a myriad of industries such as retail, advertising agencies, hospitality and military industries, construction companies, telecom, technology, consumer goods, among others. He also provides corporate intellectual property advice in transactional matters including IP due diligence, IP protection clause drafting, as well as other types of agreements.

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

Mackrell International

Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa, Colegio de Abogados (ANADE Mexican Association of Business Lawyers)

Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI)

Education

Alberto holds an LLM in IP from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois, and a Postgraduate Degree in IP matters from Universidad Panamericana. He also has a certificate on Civil, Family and Criminal Law and holds a law degree (J.D. equivalent) from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City.

Mentions

Mexico

Intellectual property

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