VILCHES

VILCHES SPRL specializes in providing strategic support for advocacy campaigns by helping clients define their objectives, develop influence strategies, draft position papers, and coordinate with allies while representing them in meetings with policy makers. The firm also offers services in monitoring legislative developments, developing legal arguments, conducting comparative legal analyses, and assisting in identifying EU funding programs. Their expertise spans various sectors, including audiovisual, music, art & culture, entertainment, sports, media, press, design, and creative industries. They help you identify the core objectives of your advocacy campaign, shape a strategy, and implement it accordingly to best reach European and national policymakers. They draft position papers to support your lobbying strategies. They assist you in identifying and coordinating with potential allies. They organize appointments and represent you at meetings with representatives from public institutions, professional associations, and private stakeholders. They prepare press releases, arrange interviews with European media, and organize PR events. They monitor European and national legislative developments in your areas of interest, including (but not limited to) intellectual property rights, enforcement, digital agenda, sports, competition, and cultural policies. They develop legal arguments to support your business strategies and negotiations or your enforcement actions. They conduct comparative analyses of the EU, US, and Latin American legal regimes. They help you identify EU funding programs to fit your ideas, projects, and innovative processes. They carry out studies on the basis of desk research, network contacts, and/or stakeholders' surveys. They assist you in developing your methodology and help you define the scope of the assignment. Laura Vilches is a legal and policy expert with more than 10 years of experience in counseling and representing companies and public institutions in the entertainment, audiovisual, media, sports, innovation, and cultural sectors. Her areas of expertise encompass copyright and neighboring rights, intellectual property protection and enforcement, e-commerce, data protection, and consumer protection at EU and national levels, including the trade aspects pertaining to the distribution and diffusion of IP-protected materials in and outside the EU. She has gained unique legal and policy expertise in the audiovisual and music sectors through her collaborations with a consultancy specialized in cultural and creative industries as well as with a renowned law firm. Her participation in EU-funded projects and studies while working in a Belgian university’s research center has reinforced her analytical skills. She is a Spanish native fluent in English and French, with a fair knowledge of German.