Benny Spiewak

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Practice Areas

Benny Spiewak is a Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional International and manages the firm’s intellectual property and life sciences practices, where his clients include a number of multinationals and large Brazilian companies. Life sciences clients include Teva, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo, Johnson & Johnson, Eisai, ABIMED (Brazil’s main medical devices industry association), Dr. Reddy’s, and the UK Patent Office. Food and technology clients include Nestlé, global education company COGNA and JBS S.A., the world’s largest meat processing company.

His recent work from 2020-21 includes:

•Assisting Teva with various matters, importantly including the Brazilian launch of its blockbuster migraine treatment, Ajovy.

•Advising pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingelheim on data exclusivity in Brazil.

•Advising DASA’s Santa Paula Hospital (and investment arm, DNA Capital) in negotiating and rolling out a series of trials and research focused on COVID-19.

•Managing COGNA´s global trademark portfolio, covering prosecution, licensing and anti-counterfeiting.

•Assisting Oxitec Ltd with approval of genetically modified mosquitoes.

Career

Mr. Spiewak is an experienced and certified Brazilian attorney and a registered patent agent. He is a foreign member of the American Bar Association. Roles include serving as head of the International IP Commission, and on the Brazilian IP Association (2010-2019).