Mr Manuel Lobato > Bird & Bird > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile

Bird & Bird offers food and beverage clients a ‘one-stop-shop’ for a wide range of legal services, including competition, intellectual property, data protection, and transactional matters. Lourdes Ayala leads the corporate and M&A department, while Antonio Cueto handles IP issues. Manuel Lobato and Mariano Santos are also experts in IP issues, with Lobato specialising in patent litigation and Santos focusing on trade mark prosecution. Santiago Lardies oversees the private equity practice.

Bird & Bird handles the full range of employment and corporate mandates, in addition to acting in patent infringement and unfair competition proceedings. Coral Yáñez is a regulatory expert who often acts in judicial reviews. Manuel Lobato is a key name for patent and SPC litigation, while seasoned IP litigator José Miguel Lissén focuses on FRAND litigation. Lourdes Ayala has a great deal of expertise in financing issues and M&A, and Miguel Pastur routinely handles employment matters within the healthcare and life sciences spaces.

With a robust offering that covers patent litigation, prosecution, and advisory services, the IP group at Bird & Bird is well placed to advise on domestic and cross-border matters across an array of sectors, most notably tech,  pharmaceuticals, and life sciences. José Miguel Lissén, who has a wealth of experience in the licensing and protection of patents, heads the team with IP prosecution and enforcement expert Mariano Santos; both practitioners are regularly called upon by clients from the biotech, electronics, and life sciences sectors. The department also benefits from the aptitude of Manuel Lobato, who shines in multijurisdictional patent litigation involving pharmaceuticals,  and Cintia Bernhardt, who focuses on patent litigation and enforcement in the media, telecoms, and e-commerce industries.

Regarded as an ‘agile legal team that fully adapts to the client’s needs’, Bird & Bird‘s IP practice maintains a strong reputation in the Spanish market due to its deep expertise across trade mark litigation, regulatory, and contractual issues, as well as prosecution and enforcement issues. While particularly strong in the pharmaceutical, technology, and cosmetics sectors, the firm advises clients across a wide range of industries. Heading up the department are José Miguel Lissén, an IP litigation and licensing specialist, and Mariano Santos, who focuses on prosecution, enforcement, and anti-counterfeiting matters. Other active practitioners in the team include Manuel Lobato, a key contact for medical devices, pharma, media, retail and fashion clients, María Fernández, who focuses on trade mark protection in Spain and the EU, and Manuela Mendigutía, who specialises in brand prosecution issues.