Vicente Arias is Partner of the IP, Data Protection, Media & Entertainment Department at Eversheds Sutherland Madrid office.
Vicente is a specialist in Intellectual Property, Media Law and Information Technology Law. He has extensive consultancy expertise gained both in Spain and internationally and broad experience in the negotiation of audiovisual contracts, phonographic publishing transfers, acquisitions of technological content, and distribution agreements, as well as the design intangible asset protection strategies, assisting in negotiations with rights management entities, e-commerce, data protection, consumer rights, publicity rights, online competition, conflicts between trademarks and domain names, and publicity rights management and litigation.
He is widely known in the entertainment industry (working for clients such as Warner Music, EMI Music Publishing, Sony ATV and Warner Home Video) and academically as the author of numerous books and papers on legal subjects. In this field, he was co-winner of the 2006 Fundación Arte & Derecho award for the best book on copyright law. In addition to his academic credentials, he is widely recognized as a pragmatic and effective lawyer with a deep understanding of economic issues and as a driving force in the markets where he works.
Latest Insights
- Vicente has been recognised as the best media lawyer in 2021 and 2024 in the Iberian Lawyer2024 Awards.
- Vicente was recently named "Lawyer of the Year" in the field of Advertising and Intellectual Property at the TMT/IP Awards organised by Iberian Lawyer.
- Vicente has been recognised by the prestigious legal directory Chambers & Partners in the following areas consecutively since 2021
- IP, Copyright, Europe: Band 2.
- TMT, Europe: Band 2.
- IP, Copyright, Global: Band 2.
- Vicente has been recognised consecutively since 2024 by the prestigious legal directory Legal 500 in the following areas
- IP: Copyrights: Tier 4.
- TMT: Tier 4.
- Shortlisted as “Lawyer of the Year” at the IP/TMT Awards 2021 organized by Iberian Lawyer:
- Copyright
- Advertising
- TMT
- Information Technology
- Media
- The TMT Department lead by Vicente, is shortlisted as “Law Firm of the Year” at the IP/TMT Awards organized by Iberian Lawyer in:
- Copyright
- TMT
- Privacy
- Data Protection
- Partner of the IP, Data Protection, Media & Entertainment Department at Eversheds Sutherland. (2007-Present)
- Director of the Department of Industrial Intellectual Property, New Technologies, and Media at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo. (2000-2007)
- Copyright attorney at Squire and Sanders & Dempsey. (1999-2000)
- Honorary collaborator at the Civil Law Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
- Associate lecturer at Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE).
- Founding member of the Association for the Study and Teaching of Copyright (ASEDA).
- Master LL.M, University College of London in Intellectual and Industrial Property (International and Comparative Law).
- Degree in Law, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE).