Lara Foncillas
FOUNDING PARTNER
Notable Practitioner 2026 – IP STARS
Lara Foncillas has been recognised as a Notable Practitioner 2026 by IP STARS / Managing IP.
IP STARS client feedback describes Lara as:
She is efficient and has a practical approach.
She is a meticulous lawyer who thoroughly examines every matter, possesses deep expertise in IP law, and provides exceptional client care.
Lara Foncillas has more than 25 years of experience advising on intellectual property, advertising, media and information technology matters.
She began her professional career at the specialist intellectual property firm Socoró y Grau and completed part of her training at the London office of Bird & Bird, an international law firm with a leading intellectual property practice. She subsequently developed her professional practice at Mullerat and Baker McKenzie, where she worked until founding her own firm.
She holds a Law degree from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and completed the Magister Lvcentinus in Intellectual Property and Information Society Law at the University of Alicante (1995-1996). She also completed further training at the Argentine National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), the authority responsible for trademarks, patents and designs.
She is listed as an intellectual property expert in the Experts Guide for Innovation Enterprises of Barcelona Activa. She is also legal adviser to the Advertisers and Public Relations Association of Catalonia on advertising and intellectual property matters, and adviser to the Federation of Furniture Businesses on the legal protection of designs.
She has also developed an extensive teaching activity for more than twenty years. Since 2002, she has taught on the Official Master’s Degree in Sports Law, organised by INEF Catalunya and the Faculty of Law of the University of Lleida, in both its national and international editions. She also teaches on the Master’s Degree in Industrial Property of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) and, since 2005, on its annual Industrial Property and Unfair Competition Course, among other specialised programmes.
She has also participated as a speaker in numerous specialist courses, seminars and conferences.
Professional associations and positions held: She has been a member of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) since 1998. She served as a member of the Governing Board of the ICAB from 2011 to 2015 and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Món Jurídic, the journal published by the ICAB, from 2005 to 2015. From 2012 to 2015, she also served as Editor-in-Chief of Món Jurídic.
LANGUAGES – Spanish – Catalan – English
Ramón Foncillas
OF COUNSEL
Former judge of the High Court of Justice, Civil, Criminal and Administrative Law Division, and the Provincial Court of Appeal of Barcelona. Assigned to the 15th Section of the Provincial Court of Appeal which covers areas including commercial law and intellectual property.
Lara Foncillas
FOUNDING PARTNER
Expert for more than 25 years in the legal defence of innovation in the form of intangible assets: trademarks, patents, designs, copyright, know how, trade secrets, image rights, advertising and unfair competition.