As Anti-Counterfeiting Team Leader, Kristina Montanaro Schrader crafts modern brand and content protection strategies for a wide range of multinational businesses. Counterfeiting cuts across virtually every product sector, and Kristina serves clients in various industries, including fashion and luxury goods, food and beverage, software, electronics, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, sports, music and entertainment. In addition to fighting counterfeit sales, Kristina also works to protect celebrity clients from reputational damage caused by online imposters, fake endorsements and other deceptive marketing scams.
Kristina takes a collaborative approach to IP enforcement and frequently draws from an extensive network of brand, law enforcement, and online platform contacts to resolve cases of infringement quickly and effectively. She has negotiated voluntary agreements and developed alliances with various intermediaries, including Alibaba Group and Taobao Marketplace, Amazon, DHgate and the major payment processors, to improve their responsiveness to rights-holder reports of online infringement. Kristina is particularly skilled at IP enforcement through the lens of payment processing, which utilizes a “follow-the-money” approach to attack infringers’ abilities to process payments for their illegal sales.
Year Joined Firm: 2015
Education/Alumni: Vanderbilt University Law School
Network Memberships:
- International Trademark Association
- Anticounterfeiting Committee (Anticounterfeiting Policy Global Project Team Leader – 2022-2023 Term, U.S. Subcommittee Chair – 2020-2021 Term)
- Publications Committee (Anticounterfeiting Guide Editor)
- Nashville Bar Association
