Gabriel F Leonardos

Senior partner, Kasznar Leonardos Intellectual Property

Gabriel F Leonardos maintains a practice encompassing IP litigation; consulting on licensing agreements, patents, trademarks, copyrights and unfair competition; trademark prosecution; and arbitration and mediation in IP and contract law.

Mr Leonardos is a member of the Ethics Court of the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property and honorary president of the Brazilian-German Chamber of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro.

He has a law degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1986), a postgraduate degree in German law from the Ludwig-Maximilian University (1989) and an LLM in financial law from the University of Sao Paulo (1996). He was also a guest research fellow at the Max Planck Institute (1988-1989). In 2015 he received the German Cross of Merit.