Juan Uribe

Partner, Triana, Uribe & Michelsen

Colombia

About me

Assisted by my department members I am in charge of the IP related contractual activities of our clients. We are among the most recognized firms in the country for entertainment, advertising, franchising and licensing business endeavours. We regularly provide advice to the most important media and telecommunications companies of our country such as Casa Editorial El Tiempo and Caracol Television with their copyright contractual issues as well as several independent producers local and foreigners of motions pictures, television shows, theatre productions. Particularly to take advantage of the new tax incentive and subsidies offered by the Colombian government to to companies who bring their audiovisual projects to be shot in this country. From our involvement on copyright and trademark matters we have developed a strong practice on advertising law that focus on compliance with consumer protection statutes and third parties rights. Recently advised the most important credit card brands, and companies involved in cutting edge technology and social media such as Intel and Facebook, as well as many other with equally demanding high standards of legal counsel. From our IP expertise and contractual background we have helped foreign and local companies implement franchise operations in our country that take advantage of of the current propitious business climate. To name a few of the recent Franchise companies that have initiated their operations in Colombia with our help we have The Gap, P.F Chang's, Johnny Rockets, Villa Pizza, Engel & Volkers.

In order to remain sharp and focused on the current issues and needs of our clients we are very active on professional organizations such as the Global Advertising Law Association GALA, the International Distribution Institute IDI for which I am the Country Expert for Colombia, the International Bar Association IBA and the Centro Colombiano para el Estudio del Derecho de Autor Cecolda.

17 February, 2020

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