Simone Lahorgue Nunes

Practice Areas

Media, Entertainment and Sports Law

Technology

Privacy and Data protection

Right to privacy and Freedom of expression

Career

Simone Lahorgue is Founding Partner at Lahorgue Advogadas Associadas. Previously, she implemented and was the head of the Media & Entertainment | Privacy & Data Protection Practices of a renowned Brazilian full-service law firm for 11 years. She was also General Counsel at Grupo Globo, the biggest media group in Latin America, from 1997 to 2008. She is a professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Law School where she teaches Media & Entertainment and Privacy & Data Protection Law.

Professional Memberships

Simone is an arbitrator for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and for the Mediation and Arbitration Chamber (CAMITAL) of the Italo-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ITALCAM).

At the International Bar Association (IBA), she is a member of the Advisory Board for the Technology Law Committee, where she served as co-chair (2015-2016). She was also chair of the Sports Law Subcommittee (2020-2021).

She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe CIPP – E; Certified Information Privacy Manager – CIPM; and Certified Data Protection Officer – CDPO/BR by the International Association of Privacy Professional (IAPP).

Publications

She is the author of books on topics related to copyright, financial market and antitrust:

Co-author of “Arbitragem e Mediação: Em Propriedade Intelectual, Esportes e Entretenimento” ("Alternative Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Mediation in IP, Sports and Entertainment") – Curitiba, Ed. Appris, 2014

Author of “Direito Autoral e Direito Antitruste” ("Copyright and Antitrust") – Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Campus/Elsevier, 2011

Author of “Os Fundamentos e os Limites do Poder Regulamentar no Âmbito do Mercado Financeiro” ("Origins and Limits of Regulatory Power in Financial Markets") – Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Renovar, 2000

Personal

Simone is member of the Board and the Executive Board of Equality Now since 2017, an international non-governmental organization committed to using legal advocacy to protect and promote the rights of women and girls worldwide.