Mr Miguel Ángel Margáin > ECIJA > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile
ECIJA Offices
Torre Mural. Av. Insurgentes Sur 1605 piso 10
Col. San José Insurgentes, C.P. 03900,
Mexico City
Mexico
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Mr Miguel Ángel Margáin
Work Department
Intellectual Property and TMT
Position
Mike Margáin is a partner in the areas of Intellectual Property and Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) at ECIJA Mexico.
Career
He has over 30 years of experience in intellectual property and innovation protection and exploitation issues at the national and international levels. He has outstanding specialization in the technology and entertainment sector (TMT), both in the private and public sectors. Margáin has been recognized as one of the best intellectual property lawyers in the Latin American region and as one of the most influential professionals in Latin America and the Pacific Rim. For this reason, he is highlighted in the Latin Lawyer 250 guide to the most influential lawyers in Latin America.
In the private sector, he served as the president (2009-2012) of the Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AMPPI). He was also the vice president and spokesperson of the Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico (AmCham). Furthermore, he is an active member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the Inter-American Association of Trademarks (ASIPI).
In the public sector, he was appointed as the general director of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), a position he held from January 2013 to November 2018. During this period, he served as the chairman of the APEC Expert Group on Intellectual Property Rights. He also chaired the Madrid Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and participated in the negotiation rounds of the Treaty between Mexico, the United States, and Canada, known as T-MEC. As legacies of his tenure, it can be noted that he promoted and achieved the most important reform of the trademark system, conducted a total digital transformation in the IMPI, and completed the project of the new legislation of patents and trademarks in Mexico in accordance with the T-MEC.
Margáin holds a law degree from Universidad Panamericana and a Master of Laws degree from Cambridge University. He is a regular columnist for El Universal newspaper, where he writes about innovation and intellectual property.
He speaks English and Spanish.
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > TMT
With the June 2023 hire of Miguel Ángel Margáin (from Pérez Correa González), ECIJA further strengthened its TMT offering in Mexico, a field in which it has been steadily growing and diversifying in recent years. The team focuses on clients from the media, sports and e-sports, IT, and telecoms sectors, with advice varying from corporate governance, commercial agreements and compliance, to IP, data protection and outsourcing. Margáin joins a team of five key partners that jointly oversee the industry group: corporate and commercial law expert Ricardo Chacón; Joaquín Rodríguez, who focuses on data protection and e-commerce; compliance specialist Berenice Sagaón; and Kaynicté Pérez who advises national and international companies on new technologies, internet law, e-commerce, sponsorship agreements and contract negotiations. Both Sagaón and Pérez were raised to the partnership in December 2022.
Mexico > Intellectual property
Leveraging its presence across Latin America and Iberia, ECIJA fields an IP team in Mexico that acts as an integral part of the firm’s coordinated registration and protection offering for the range of IP categories. The firm’s longstanding specialism in TMT matters gives it an extra edge in digital law issues and its IP client base has considerable overlap with the digital technology space. The hire of new practice head Miguel Ángel Margáin (from Pérez Correa González) in June 2023 has substatially strengthened the practice group. Martáin is supported by dedicated senior associate Georgina García – who ‘has an impressive ability to offer straightforward solutions’ and is experienced in portfolio management across a variety of businesses. Additionally, office managing partner Ricardo Chacón oversees the full range of IP work, while TMT-practice co-head Joaquín Rodríguez is also active in relation to IP matters.