As a partner of Aguirre, Quintanilla, Soria & Nishizawa Law Firm, Perla heads the Firm’s Intellectual Property Department. She was partner in charge of the same area at the Bufete Aguirre Soc. Civ..
Perla is also a member of the ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE of INTA, and of the Social Action Committee of ABPI.
She was acting Executive General Director of the National Intellectual Property Service “SENAPI”. As Coordinator of the Intellectual Property Roundtable, she participated in the negotiations of the Andean FTA with the United States, as part of the Free Trade Agreement Program “PTLC” of the Ministry of Economic Development.
Perla taught Intellectual Property on several occasions at the Andean University Simón Bolívar, Bolivian Catholic University, Private University of Bolivia and at the Aquino University of Bolivia.
She was Secretary of the ASIPI Women’s Committee and President of the Social Action Committee and the Social Responsibility Committee of ASIPI, leading the ASIPI Mentors program.

EDUCATION:

• LL.M (Lex Magister) in Intellectual Property and Information Technology, University of London, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, London, England.
• Bachelor of Laws, Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”, La Paz, Bolivia, 1998.
• International Human Rights and Indigenous and Minority Rights, University of Oxford and George Washington University, Oxford, England, 1996.

RECOGNITIONS:

• Perla has been listed in Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 publications, as a lawyer in Band 1.

MEMBERSHIPS:

• Bolivian Bar Association.
• La Paz Bar Association.
• Bolivian Intellectual Property Association (ABPI), where she is member of the Board.
• Inter-American Industrial Property Association (ASIPI).
• International Trademark Association (INTA).