Heffels Spiegeler Advocaten

Attorney at Law - Founding Partner - IP Law - International Tradelaw

Brigitte is founding partner since 2013 of HEFFELS SPIEGELER ATORNEYS AT LAW.

Brigitte is an attorney-at-law in The Netherlands and France. She gained extensive experience in legal services to companies, non-profit organizations and (foreign) governments. From 2002 to 2008 she worked with the Ministry of Economic Affairs as a senior policy advisor on Intellectual Property. In this work she was leading research projects on intellectual property and she did negotiations in a national, European and international context at organizations such as the European Council, the European Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organization and several diplomatic conferences. She was also responsible for legislation in the field of Intellectual Property. In 2008 she graduated successfully in fine arts at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. With her art she has participated in many international exhibitions among which the Venice Biennial in 2017.

Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish

INTA - member Anti counterfeiting Committee APRAM - member Advoselect - member GRUR - member Union IP - secretary BMM - member AIPPI - member

Brigitte’s eductional background includes: University of Amsterdam  Dutch law and European Studies (1995); In 1992, she studied at the Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble II, French law (1992); scholarship of the Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD) to participate in Germany in an exchange at the University of Tübingen and at the High Court in Düsseldorf.

Brigitte is also a visual artist, graduated successfully from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. She has done exhibitions in The Hague, but her work was also on show all over the world ; China, Turkey, Paris, Dusseldorf and Singapore.