McConnell Valdés LLC

The powerhouse intellectual property team at McConnell Valdés LLC remains a market leader, bringing strength to advising financial institutions and such household-name global brands as Cartier, Clorox, T-Mobile and Universal Music Group. With an active client base spanning such sectors as consumer products, entertainment, apparel, jewellery, food and beverages, and telecoms, the group’s full offering covers a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters involving trade marks, trade dress, copyrights, false advertising, moral rights, right of publicity and patents. The team is headed by seasoned trade mark and copyright litigators Dora Peñagarícano, who brings expertise to fashion law and anti-counterfeiting matters, and Roberto Quiñones-Rivera. Other key figures include María Teresa Szendrey‐Ramos, who specialises in trade mark prosecution and IP counselling; counsel Isabel Torres‐Sastre, who brings expertise to media and entertainment matters; and Sonia López del Valle, who draws on experience managing customer arbitration and expungement proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.