Samuel is the Head of New Technologies / IP at Addleshaw Goddard – Spain. He regularly assists startups, scaleups, SMEs, VC and PE firms, and multinational corporations, in complex cutting-edge projects in an international context encompassing intellectual property, technology and data.

Specialized in the roll out of cross-border data-driven innovative solutions and services in several sectors including Advanced Manufacturing -advising satellite operators and earth observation companies-, Health, Consumer and Retail, Financial Services -FinTech- or Energy & Utilities. He acts as trusted advisor on a wide range of IP matters such as registration, licensing, assignment, cease-and-desist letters, out-of-court settlements, and IP disputes before courts related to trade secrets, copyrights, patents, and trademarks. He is particularly active helping clients to navigate through the interplay of IP, artificial intelligence and blockchain in strongly regulated ecosystems where tech-based business and the setting up of a proper IP ownership scheme are always a challenge. He also assists clients in the framework of IP audits, valuation of IP assets, forensics, IP monetization, spin-offs from universities and research centres, consortiums, and IP related contractual/tax schemes.

He acts as legal arbitrator in the extrajudicial conflict resolution scheme for “.es” domain names managed by Adigital.