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At Santiago Mediano Abogados, Chris Cooke is in charge of the UK Desk and US Desk. He has extensive experience as a legal practitioner, in which he has worked both in-house and independently. During the first nine years of his career, he worked as a lawyer in London: the first year in litigation and the next eight years as a Director of Commercial and Legal Affairs, both at the European central offices of Warner Bros Filmed Entertainment in London and later at Pathé Productions.

During the last 18 years he has worked in Spain for Santiago Mediano Abogados, where he advises Spanish customers operating or with conflicts abroad, as well as with English and American clients with commercial interests in Spain.

Chris Cooke is part of the Corporate and Commercial Law team at SMA, but also works daily on a wide range of intellectual and industrial property topics.  He has extensive experience in the entire field of commercial and corporate law and intellectual and industrial property in the entertainment and retail & fashion sectors.

His services encompass all types of commercial contractual relations; licenses and franchises; structuring of corporate instruments and joint ventures for entertainment and retail projects; business investments and regulating relations among shareholders; distribution, production and sales of entertainment products; management of IP rights; conflict resolution for violations of intellectual property and in contractual relationships; software development and licenses.