Kate Read, Head of Europe, Chambers and Partners

Kate joined Chambers as a researcher in the Europe team, before her promotion to Deputy Editor on the UK team. Before starting at Chambers, she lived and worked in the Cévennes, alongside undertaking freelance translation in the hospitality and legal education fields. She graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in Modern Languages (French and German), including studies at Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, before undertaking an MA in Comparative Literature at Birkbeck University of London.

Andy Ramos Gil de la Haza, Intellectual Property and Technology Partner at Pérez-Llorca

Andy Ramos Gil de la Haza is a partner in Pérez-Llorca’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice. Prior to joining the firm, Andy worked 15 years at a boutique firm in Madrid, an intellectual property rights management agency and a film studio in Los Angeles (California).     Andy Ramos is an expert in technology and intangible assets, Andy advises on the identification, protection, transfer and acquisition of intangible assets, including artwork and creative services, trademarks, patents, data and trade secrets. Andy is also co-founder of and Head of Legal at the Spanish Entertainment Law Association (DENAE).    Andy often speaks at conferences and lectures for specialised seminars and courses on Intellectual Property, the Internet, Technology, Robotics and Entertainment, and has been invited by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to give conferences in Brazil, Switzerland and the Philippines. Andy is also a member of the Academic Committee of FIDE (Fundación para la Investigación sobre el Derecho y la Empresa). He has contributed to articles related to his areas of expertise, and coordinated the international study commissioned by the WIPO entitled “The Legal Status of Video Games: Comparative Analysis in National Approaches”. 

Rais Amils, Intellectual Property and Technology Partner at Pérez-Llorca

Rais Amils is a partner in Pérez-Llorca’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice. Rais has more than 20 years of experience and has spent her entire career at a prestigious international firm. Rais 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.    Rais Amils regularly lectures on competition and industrial property law at the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE) and at the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB). She has also been invited to speak at various specialised forums, such as the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), the Centro de Estudios para el Fomento de la Investigación (CEFI) and the Universidad Central de Barcelona. She has published many articles in specialised journals on competition and industrial property law matters, and has also contributed to joint works on this subject. 

Hugo Barahona Arroyo, Business Affairs Director, Sony Pictures Entertainment (Iberia)

Hugo Barahona Arroyo, Business Affairs Director at Sony Pictures Entertainment (Iberia), is a lawyer registered by the Madrid Bar Association with more than 10 years of experience practising law and specialised in intellectual property. Hugo has a degree in Law and a Master of Laws in LLM, LLM IP&IT and New Technologies from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has also studied at the Escuela de Comunicación. Throughout his professional career Hugo has worked as a lawyer in different Spanish law firms specialising in intellectual property. He was IP Legal Counsel at Vodafone, one of the main telephone companies in Spain, and is currently Business Affairs Director at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Alberto Sempere, Global Director for CyberSecurity Products

Alberto Sempere is the Global Director for CyberSecurity Products at Telefónica. He has more than 15 years of experience in the security, digital security and technology sectors and has held various positions in business development, which allows him to understand customers’ needs from different angles. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE, as well as an Executive MBA from IEDE and an Executive Master’s degree in Digital Business from ESADE. Previously, he worked as a systems engineer and also held several high-ranking positions at Optenet and Telefonica.