CorralRosales

Intellectual Property & Regulatory

Partner

Maria Cecilia is a partner at CorralRosales. She has over 25 years of experience in IP matters and co-heads the Intellectual Property and Regulatory areas. Maria Cecilia works across several different industries, especially aviation, distribution and services, energy and natural resources, food and beverage, infrastructure and construction, insurance, pharma, and retail.  Under her leadership, CorralRosales has become an indisputable leader at the local and regional level of Intellectual Property. Maria Cecilia counsels numerous leading international companies as to their protection needs for their Intellectual Property portfolios in Ecuador and Latin America. Likewise, Maria Cecilia is widely recognized for her fight against piracy and counterfeiting with exceptional results.  In the regulatory area, Maria Cecilia oversees processes for obtaining permits and authorizations, due diligence, defense of clients in administrative and judicial processes, management of complex matters and crisis management. She also handles issues of foreign trade and quality standards or any other processes required for the sale and exploitation of products and services.  Maria Cecilia is recognized within the industry for her detail-oriented style, as well as for her ability to find creative solutions to complex problems, all accomplished with impressive speed and precision.  Maria Cecilia participates actively in forums and conferences on Intellectual Property issues. She is the first Ecuadorian both to sit on INTA’s Board of Directors and to form part of the Programming Committee of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).  Maria Cecilia has been recognized in legal directories such as Chambers and Partners Global and Latin America, IP Stars, Latin Lawyer, LACCA, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and WTR 1000. Furthermore, Maria Cecilia received the Chambers Women in Law Award for Ecuador in 2018. She is the only Ecuadorian to have been recognized among the 250 most influential women in IP as selected by IP Stars. María Cecilia is a member of the UEIPO´s Observatory International Panel of Experts. 

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Maria Cecilia has a Juris Doctor degree from Pontifica Universidad Católica del Ecuador, as well as several diplomas in various intellectual property topics. She has acted as an International IP Mediator and Arbitrator. She also has experience in the public sector, from her time as a judge of the Administrative Litigation Court. She has also acted like Chair in the first INTA LATAM Conference Cartagena 2017, International programming leader for INTA Boston 2019 and chair for the ASIPI Conference Quito 2020.