Finance Monthly Global Awards 2019 Edition

www.finance-monthly.com 43 Finance Monthly Global Awards 2019 MEXICO VILA Corporate Practice Area provides assistance to national and foreign entities of different industry sectors. Its key clients list proudly includes one of the most important beer commercial groups in Mexico, as well as a famous worldwide professional boxing champion. VILA also integrates other law practices into its work, in order to fulfill the objectives of its clientele. Active across a wide range of sectors and industries -including infringement and prosecution cases that involve trademarks- VILA has shown a fast and solid growth for patent litigation and enforcement of IP rights for key players within the metallurgical and chemical industries, all of these in a period no longer than the past two years. VILA has recently represented clients in auto parts industries, handling litigations resulting in obtaining favorable rulings. Additionally, its team has been largely engaged in administrative litigation, being able to enforce its clients’rights before administrative and Judicial Courts, as well as promoting legal actions before Customs to refrain counterfeited products to entry into Mexican Territory. VILA is the most remarkable IP specialized firm in the West Side of Mexico, with national and international clients and alliances. Although there are other law firms that provide services in this field, such assistance comprises basic services as a complement to other practices; there is certainly no one in the west of Mexico that specializes in IP like VILA does. OTHER FIRM MEMBERS VICTOR VILA Founding Partner He has an extensive experience in planning, auditing, and formalizing strategies in the field of Intellectual Property, Administrative and Corporate law, being appointed as legal counsel of prestigious Mexican and foreign companies, as well as government entities of the three levels of government. Contact details: E: victor@vila.com.mx CESAR RAMIREZ Partner Graduated with a degree in law and an extensive background in the area of Intellectual Property. Always looking to protect the interest of companies, he has specialized in industrial property matters as well as labor law. He is passionate about being at the forefront of knowledge and is constantly updating and training. This has allowed him to specialize its knowledge and experience with organizations like the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Organization for the Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM European Union) and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI). Contact details: E: cesar@vila.com.mx ELIAS RIOS Of Counsel Having +25 years of experience, he is responsible for assisting top universities, pharmaceutical companies and other industries with proficiency and sharp advice in terms of commercial and litigation strategies. His expertise also includes a wide spectrum of matters going from freedom-to-operate opinions to full-scale litigation proceedings as well as the negotiation and drafting of transactional agreements. He is the key player on the firm’s patent litigation practice. Mr. Rios has successfully undertaken competition/antitrust consultation. Copyrights and franchising issues are also a common practice for him, having ample experience in enforcement for Software Industry. With studies in patent practice in Japan, he is actively involved in consulting, strategies for the protection of technological developments and has been lecturer in various national and international universities and business forums in Mexico and abroad. Mr. Rios has participated as co-author in several IP specialized books. Contact details: E: rios.elias@vila.com.mx