Rais Amils > Pérez-Llorca > Barcelona, Spain > Lawyer Profile

Pérez-Llorca
AVENIDA DIAGONAL 640, 8ºA
08017 BARCELONA
Spain

Work Department

Intellectual Property and Technology

Position

Rais Amils joined Pérez-Llorca in 2022 as an Industrial Property partner.

Career

Rais has more than 20 years of experience and specialises in intellectual property litigation, mostly representing innovative companies in the pharmaceutical sector in the defence of their patents. She also has experience in trademark, design, unfair competition and competition law litigation.

Languages

Spanish, Catalan, English, French and Italian

Memberships

The Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB)

Chair of the ICAB’s Competition and Industrial Property Law Commission (2019)

Member of the Asociación Española de Defensa de la Competencia

Education

Degree in Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Master’s Degree in European Law, College of Europe.
Diploma of Advanced Studies, Universitat de Barcelona

Lawyer Rankings

Spain > Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences

Praised for its ‘phenomenal coordination‘ and ‘excellent‘ experience, the team at Pérez-Llorca regularly assists clients with the assessment of dosing regiment, second medical use, and compound patents, in addition to handling multijurisdictional disputes concerning SPCs. Eduardo Castillo, noted for his vast, longstanding knowledge of IP and unfair competition litigation within the pharma and biotech industries, and Juan Rodríguez Cárcamo jontly head up the Madrid-based team. Rais Amils is an IP litigator in Barcelona with expansive expertise in the intersection between IP right enforcement and antitrust law. Álvaro de Castro maintains an IP and unfair competition-focused practice, regularly acting in cases concerning the infringement and validity of copyrights and patents.

Spain > Intellectual property: patents

Pérez-Llorca continues to build its capability in TMT and IP, and continues to provide ‘security in the approach and execution of the cases‘. In Madrid, practice head Eduardo Castillo is the standout lawyer for IP matters, focusing predominantly on patent litigation in the chemical, life sciences  and telecoms sectors. Counsel and infringement specialist Álvaro de Castro handles litigation concerning the acquisition, exploitation, infringement and validity of intangible assets. In Barcelona, litigation partner Rais Amils frequently acts for innovative pharmaceutical companies. As a whole, the group typically works in multijurisdictional transactional projects and disputes.

Spain > Intellectual property: Trade marks

(Firms to watch)

At Pérez-Llorca, trade marks are a key element of the firm’s broad IP and technology practice, led by the highly respected Eduardo Castillo. Rais Amills and the ‘proactive, efficientÁlvaro de Castro handle the bulk of the work, which encompasses litigation and transactional matters for clients in the pharmaceuticals, life sciences, entertainment and luxury goods sectors.