Director

Lola Kandelaft, LL.M.

Associate Director

Languages

French
English
Spanish

Lola is the Associate Director for the Firm in the Intellectual Property area. She has 12 years of experience advising clients from all industry sectors in the management, protection, and defense of their IP portfolios, both nationally and internationally, including trademarks, patents, copyrights, domain names, industrial designs, and appellations of origin.

She has experience negotiating and drafting contracts and in judicial representation in cases of IP rights infringement. Furthermore, she was a professor of the Intellectual property diploma at the Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano.

Professional Experience

2018-present – Associate Director, CMS Rodríguez-Azuero, Bogotá, Colombia
2014-2018 – Partner, Muñoz Abogados, Bogotá, Colombia
2012-2014 – Lawyer in Industrial Property, Muñoz Abogados, Bogotá, Colombia
2012 – Stagiaire in Trademark Law, Schmit Chrétien, Paris, France

Awards & Recognitions

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“She is a lawyer who, due to her training, has the knowledge to advise on both local and international issues. She is proactive and assertive as well as thorough. She is close to the client, efficiency, kindness and reasonable cost”.

Legal 500

Publications

Author, Chapter "Trademark Law in the Andean Community of Nations", Trademark Law practice in the world, Editions Larcier, to be published.
Author, "Civil Responsibility for Trademark Infringement. Proposals to grant a dissuasive function to the trademark infringement ", IARCE Magazine nº37, 2016
Speaker of the X International Encounter of Civil Responsibility organized by the Colombian Institute of Civil and State Responsibility, 2015.
Author, "The geographical indication as a ground for the rejection of the trademark application in Colombia: the special protection granted to 'Colombian Coffee'" (French), Revue Francophone de la Propriété Intellectuelle, 2015

Memberships & Roles

Organizer and speaker of the XII Annual Intellectual Property Congress of the Externado de Colombia University, 2016
Member of INTA
Member of the INTA Geographical Indications Committee

Awards & Rankings

Lola Kandelaft, Rising Star and Recommended Lawyer in Legal 500 Latin America 2024 in the area of Intellectual Property.
Best Lawyers 2024, Intellectual Property.
Area recognition: Leaders League 2023, IP litigation (Excellent)

Education

2012 – Masters in Industrial Property Law, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France
2011 – LL.M., McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2010 – Lawyer, Trilingual Corporate Lawyer, Université Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, France
2010 – Lenguajes (English y Spanish), Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

sectors

Consumer Products

Insights

Global Reach