Brazil: Industries & Sectors
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 was the head of the Media & Entertainment | Privacy & Data Protection Practices of a Brazilian full-service law firm for 11 years. She was also General Counsel at Grupo Globo, the biggest media group in Latin America. She is a professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Law School where she teaches Media & Entertainment and Privacy & Data Protection Law.
Professional Memberships
Member of the Advisory Board - IBA Technology Law Committee
Member of the Certification Advisory Board - IAPP
Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe CIPP – E
Certified Information Privacy Manager – CIPM
Certified Data Protection Officer – CDPO/BR
Publications
Media and Entertainment Law Textbook (Quartier Latin, 2025)
Copyright and Antitrust Law (Elsevier, 2011)
The Foundations and Limits of Regulatory Power in the Financial Market (Renovar, 2000)
Personal
Arbitrator for the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center and for the CDD-ABPI and CArb-ABPI of the ABPI.
Co-chair of the executive board of Equality Now, an international NGO committed to protecting and promoting the rights of women and girls worldwide.