Hey guys, welcome back to Skin Care Anarchy. This is your host, Ecta, and I'm really excited to welcome back our guest today because I feel like legal stuff and law in the beauty industry is an area that a lot of us are, you know, kind of confused about. There's a lot of hazy areas, a lot of gray areas. So without further ado, I want to welcome back Antonella Kala from Kulala Law Firm.

Welcome to show, Entenella.

Thank you.

It's good to be back.

No, it's really great to have you.

And, you know, it's really great to be able to chat with you because you know so much

in this landscape and there's so much we don't know you know not only from my side as a

consumer i don't have a beauty brand in my own but there's so many that tune in that do you know

and it's really i think confusing in terms of figuring out what's you know what what is stuff that

we need to prepare for and i'd love to kind of remind our listeners and all of your background

if you don't mind you know just kind of do a you know, walk down and relaying of your legal background and your expertise.

Sure. So I've been an attorney for 15 years now and always working with businesses, always doing transactional work. And I've worked at law firms. I've worked in-house as a deputy general counsel for a company.

So I have a lot of experience kind of guiding companies through compliance, regulatory matters,

contract, and then also IP. So I went out on my own in 2021 to start my own practice, my own firm, and I

work with all businesses, but I do have a niche with beauty-based businesses. So I work with

businesses that are starting products, manufacturers, and also on the service side.

So, the aestheticians and spas and salons, et cetera. So, you know, the work is a lot of contracts.

It's a lot of trademark and IP protection. And then on the beauty product side, there's also, of course, the regulatory work, Mokra and FTA regulations and kind of getting everybody compliant. And that's, I think that's where a lot of people are scratching their head because especially with Mokra, it's so new. Nobody knows what's going on. Even, you know, know ourselves like the professional service people that are

trying to work through it they have not released regulation so they you know they have not told

everything that we need to know about it yet so we're just kind of like going through it with like a

yeah no i bet and also like i want to actually talk about mokra like, in depth because I don't think a lot of people really understand what it is.

I know if you're a beauty brand founder out there and you're going through it, you know, in terms of getting everything in order, I mean, that's one thing.

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