Miquel Montañá Mora

Miquel Montañá specialises in dispute resolution (including arbitration), intellectual property and competition law. Miquel has worked on multi-jurisdictional intellectual property and commercial disputes involving patents, trademarks, unfair competition, distribution and agency agreements, copyright and breach of confidential information.

Relevant experience

• Advising and representing a major manufacturer of smoking paper in the contractual matters arising from the distribution network and in all its trademark and unfair competition matters in Spain
• Representing one of the largest food and beverages company in patent, trademark and unfair competition proceedings with regard to the selling of coffee capsules
• Representing one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies in patent infringement proceedings against all the companies that launched generics of Viagra
• Representing a multinational electronics and information technology company in an action for declaration of non-infringement filed by its main competitor in relation to a tablet design
• Representing an American global cigarette and tobacco company in an over EUR€8 million claim for damages

Career and qualifications

• University of Barcelona (LLB) 1989
• Lecturer on European Law at several universities since 1990
• Masters Degree in European Community Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona 1991
• Harvard University (LLM) 1992
• Admitted as an abogado in Madrid 1993
• Joined Clifford Chance 1993
• University of Barcelona (LLD) 1995
• Partner since 2000
• Lecturer of International Law at ESADE - Universitat Ramón Llull 2014