Felipe Palhares
Brazil Guide 2024
Band 3 : Data Protection
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About
Provided by 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 Technology and Digital Businesses practices. He has extensive experience assisting local and international companies in strategic matters that involve the processing of personal data, in managing the response to data breaches and ransomware attacks, and in dealing with regulators. He is admitted to practice law in Brazil and in the New York State.
Felipe regularly advises clients in designing privacy programs, assists companies on data privacy matters during the development of new products and provides support in the response to security incidents. He acted for companies in the crisis management of some of the most relevant ransomware attacks that occurred in Brazil in the recent years.
He also has extensive experience in litigation, acting for clients from a wide variety of sectors, such as technology, gaming, payments and entertainment.
Felipe is the only individual in the world to have earned all current certifications and designations issued by the IAPP, and also holds data protection certifications from ISACA and Maastricht University. He is frequently recommended in data protection rankings from legal publications and was recognized as one of the 40 brightest data protection lawyers under 40 in 2021.
Chambers Review
Brazil: Industries & Sectors
Felipe Palhares provides advice to clients regarding data processing agreements, compliance issues and DPO counselling.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"I recommend him for the quality of work, and the way he simplifies a complex topic, making it easy to understand."
"Very commercially oriented, agile and responsive. There was never a case in which we received something vague or unclear. We are quite happy with the work delivered."
"Felipe is one of the best professionals in this field in Brazil."
"Felipe Palhares has a thorough set of skills to deal with privacy matters, not only technically but also from a business perspective."
"I recommend him for the quality of work, and the way he simplifies a complex topic, making it easy to understand."
"Very commercially oriented, agile and responsive. There was never a case in which we received something vague or unclear. We are quite happy with the work delivered."
"Felipe is one of the best professionals in this field in Brazil."
"Felipe Palhares has a thorough set of skills to deal with privacy matters, not only technically but also from a business perspective."
"I recommend him for the quality of work, and the way he simplifies a complex topic, making it easy to understand."
"Very commercially oriented, agile and responsive. There was never a case in which we received something vague or unclear. We are quite happy with the work delivered."
"Felipe is one of the best professionals in this field in Brazil."
"Felipe Palhares has a thorough set of skills to deal with privacy matters, not only technically but also from a business perspective."
"I recommend him for the quality of work, and the way he simplifies a complex topic, making it easy to understand."
"Very commercially oriented, agile and responsive. There was never a case in which we received something vague or unclear. We are quite happy with the work delivered."
"Felipe is one of the best professionals in this field in Brazil."
"Felipe Palhares has a thorough set of skills to deal with privacy matters, not only technically but also from a business perspective."
Articles, highlights and press releases
2 items provided by BMA – Barbosa, Müssnich, Aragão
DAO tokens, collective investment contracts and securities
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6 Months into the LGPD: lessons and challenges
As the first comprehensive legislation focused on personal data processing in all sectors of the economy, the LGPD represents a substantial change in Brazilian law.
DAO tokens, collective investment contracts and securities
Before initiating a DAO project, nonetheless, it is crucial for its founders to evaluate whether the governance tokens to be issued may be considered as securities under the applicable laws.
6 Months into the LGPD: lessons and challenges
As the first comprehensive legislation focused on personal data processing in all sectors of the economy, the LGPD represents a substantial change in Brazilian law.
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