Director of the Intellectual and Industrial Property and New Technologies Department at CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo.Areas of expertise: intellectual property, industrial property, telecommunication and e-commerce law; data protection, protection of honour, privacy and own image, advertising law.Chambers Europe/Global‘Blanca Cortés has moved to Roca Junyent as head of the IP practice. She has an established reputation as a strong choice for architecture firms seeking to protect, commercialise or enforce copyright in their works. She also acts for creators of musical or audiovisual works. "She is able to condense and clarify the most complex matters," says one source, while another states: "She is very efficient." Interviewees further praise her active management of ongoing matters, saying: "She follows up and comes back to us frequently to check on the evolution of the file.’Legal 500‘I have worked with many firms on all intellectual property issues throughout my work as an in-house lawyer for different companies and Roca Junyent’s office in the person of Blanca Cortés is frankly good, her work is impeccable and her help at the time to understand the problems and risks is exceptional.’‘I highlight the work carried out by Blanca Cortés, I have raised important problems and complicated issues and she has been able to give me support and help and solutions, she is also directly involved without delegating to others.‘‘The Intellectual Property department of the Roca Junyent office is the best we have ever worked with for their diligence, dedication and understanding of the issues that we put in their hands. Blanca Cortés is a reference for us and our teams for all matters related to Intellectual Property around the world and for the drafting of all our contracts. Her efforts in this regard have an outstanding degree of success.‘‘Blanca Cortés has an extraordinary ability to dialogue with third parties, whether they are clients, opponents or future partners, and a precision and style of writing, even a simple email, which makes her texts very accurate in their effects.’‘Clearly Blanca Cortes is a lawyer with open-mindedness and knowledge, in her specialty, very difficult to match in other firms. She and her entire team have worked with us during this year with great professional excellence.’