Catherine Mateu, partner with ARMENGAUD & GUERLAIN, is bilingual in French and

Spanish, and fluent in English and Basque. She holds a post-graduate degree in Domestic and European Business Law from the Université de Nancy II, an LLM in Common Law from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, a DESS in Industrial Property from the Université de Paris II, and a DEA in Private International Law from the Université de Paris I.

Catherine Mateu is an active member of the following associations: AIPPI, (regular participant in AIPPI Working Committees), APRAM, INTA (Chair of the Trade Dress Image Library Subcommittee, member of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Task Force and the French contributor to Trade Dress International Practice and Procedures, an INTA publication) and ADIJ, (member of the Public Markets and New Technologies Committee). She is a regular speaker at various intellectual property conferences.