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Senior Counsel

José Luis Villareal is a Mexico City attorney who represents Mexican and international clients from a wide variety of sectors. Mr. Villareal advises on complex transactions and litigation proceedings related to intellectual property rights, including trademarks, slogans, tradenames, trade secrets, patents, utility models, industrial designs and copyrights.

Mr. Villareal has successfully handled several intellectual property transactions, including the purchase, sale, transfer, licensing and due diligence of intellectual property rights. He also is experienced in advising on numerous administrative procedures and litigations related to intellectual property rights. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants against several highly acknowledged corporations before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property and the Mexican Federal Courts. He also has coordinated the registration and enforcement of intellectual property rights abroad.

As part of his experience, Mr. Villareal collaborated for nearly 10 years with a former senior legal officer of the World Intellectual Property Organization and also former deputy general director of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property. In addition, he has served as guest speaker for one of the Legal Culture Centers of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice, for which he has presented on several industrial property topics.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Villareal formed part of the intellectual property practice of another top-tier global law firm in Mexico.

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Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey, J.D. The University of Texas at Austin, Certificate, Energy Finance