Chile’s Sáenz de Santa María promotes IP partner
Sáenz de Santa María Abogados has appointed Alexandra Howard as a partner in the firm’s intellectual property (IP) practice.
Howard (pictured) has more than 14 years’ experience advising several national and international clients in civil and commercial law and industrial and intellectual property. She specialises in the protection, management and enhancement of intellectual property assets, and the processing and prosecution of industrial privileges, registration of plant breeders’ rights and intellectual property litigation, as well as the drafting and review of IP contracts.
Among her former roles include a manager and IP strategy director at CMPC, and as an associate at Villaseca Abogados, and as a foreign lawyer at Australian firm Phillips, Ormonde & Fitzpatrick.
She is a graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, from where she earned a diploma in advanced procedural law and litigation, and studied IP at the University of Melbourne.
