Alejandro Negro Esq. LL.B; LLM. is a Spanish legal practitioner at Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira, with a master’s degree in law. He graduated from the Instituto de Empresa and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He is a senior intellectual property and technology lawyer, with extensive experience in both transactional matters and disputes. He is a legal adviser on all areas of intellectual property, information technology, IT/software issues, trademarks and patents. His area of practice covers a wide range of industrial sectors, including retail, IT/telecoms, pharmacy and financial services. He graciously accepted our offer to be a consultant to this project, to give us the benefit of his wealth of experience on the global trends on the law of intellectual property and information technology.