Mr León Weinstok > BLP > Guanacaste, Costa Rica > Lawyer Profile

The team at BLP remains a leader in the market, bringing strength to creating, implementing and monitoring compliance programmes and risk management strategies for domestic and household-name multinational corporates such as Microsoft, Colgate-Palmolive, Pfizer and Samsung, across such sectors as tech, electronics, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, construction and hospitality. The group’s comprehensive service covers matters ranging from anti-money laundering, health and safety, consumer protection and antitrust to corporate human rights, data privacy, corporate regulatory frameworks and ESG. The practice is led by Juan Carlos Tristán, an expert in internal investigations, training, and the drafting and implementation of ethics and anti-corruption programmes, along with Uri Weinstok, a specialist in conducting audits and compliance programmes. Other key figures include Andrés López, who brings AML expertise; experienced litigator and special counsel Alejandro Rojas; and San José office director and data privacy expert León Weinstok.

BLP remains a market leader, employing the full bench strength of offices in San José, Puntarenas, Guanacaste and Marina Flamingo, in addition to branches across Latin America and Europe, to advise global household names including adidas, Bayer and Sony, on the management, licensing and enforcement of their international intellectual property portfolios. With an active client base spanning such sectors as pharmaceuticals, apparel, entertainment, food and beverages, education, tech and financial services, the practice’s full offering covers matters involving trade marks, copyrights and sanitary registrations, in addition to complex patent prosecutions, cross-border registration reports, the seizure of counterfeit goods, third-party infringements and the assignment of rights. The practice is headed by Giselle Reuben, who brings expertise to the anti-counterfeiting litigation practice, and Uri Weinstok, who draws on a multidisciplinary skill set to manage IP issues related to competition and antitrust law and advertising. Other key figures include directors León Weinstok, who specialises in IP data protection matters, and Anel Aguilar, who handles complex trade mark filing strategies.