Felipe Palhares

Practice Areas

Data Privacy and Cybersecurity

Crisis Management

Blockchain and Innovation

Career

Felipe Palhares is a partner in BMA's Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, and Blockchain and Innovation practice areas. He has extensive experience assisting local and international companies in strategic matters that involve the processing of personal data, in managing the response to security incidents, data breaches and ransomware attacks, and in dealing with regulators. He is admitted to the practice of law in Brazil and in the New York State.

Felipe advises clients from various jurisdictions in designing, carrying out, and reviewing privacy programs, assists companies on data privacy matters during the development of new products and services, and provides support in the response to security incidents and cyberattacks.

Felipe also has extensive experience in strategic litigation, both judicial and administrative, acting for clients from a wide variety of sectors, such as technology, payment means, infrastructure, airlines, gaming and entertainment. He also works in M&A transactions and capital markets offerings, conducting due diligence related to technology and data privacy matter.

Felipe is the only person in the world to have earned all current certifications and designations issued by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), including the CIPP/A, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, CDPO/BR, CDPO/FR, FIP and PLS.