Thiago Sombra

Practice Areas

Administrative Law; Compliance & Corporate Ethics; Corporate Investigations; Cryptoassets; Data Protection & Cybersecurity; Election Laws for Companies; Infrastructure & Energy

Litigation & Arbitration; Technology; Digital Infrastructure

Career

Thiago Luís Sombra works at the intersection of law, technology, and regulation, with notable experience in anti-corruption, investigations, and data protection. His experience includes investigations conducted by national and foreign authorities, complex cases, and strategic matters also involving infrastructure, public procurement, concessions, and administrative contracts. Directories such as Legal 500 and Chambers describe him as a strategy-focused lawyer, present in major international cases, particularly with Asian and European clients.

Holding a PhD in Law, Technology, and Regulation from the University of Brasília and the London School of Economics, Thiago completed post-doctoral studies in Anti-Corruption at the University of São Paulo and holds a master’s degree from PUC-SP and Università di Camerino. He passed the public examination for Professor at the University of Brasília and serves on the editorial boards of institutions such as FGV, STF, and USP. He is the author of three books and numerous articles published in Brazil and abroad.

In the public sector, he served as State Attorney of São Paulo for over ten years and as clerk at the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), working on significant cases before the Supreme Court (STF) and the STJ. He received the “Estado em Juízo” award for his work before the STF, which generated billions in savings for public coffers. He contributed to the drafting of Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD) and was a member of the Congressional Commission of Jurists responsible for Brazil’s AI legislation bill.

Education

Languages Spoken

Portuguese;

English;

Italian;

Practice Areas

Administrative Law; Compliance & Corporate Ethics; Corporate Investigations; Cryptoassets; Data Protection & Cybersecurity; Election Laws for Companies; Infrastructure & Energy; Litigation & Arbitration; Technology; Digital Infrastructure.

Career

Thiago’s expertise is focused on technology, compliance and public law, particularly in regard to anti–corruption, data protection, cybersecurity and digital platform investigations conducted by public authorities and regulators. He also advises clients on public law issues with a focus on infrastructure, assisting with contracting state-owned companies, administrative sanctioning proceedings, concessions, public tenders, and administrative contracts in general.

Thiago is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the Global Digital Economy Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Technology Committee of the British Chamber of Commerce and the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Federal Senate’s Commission of Jurists for drafting a bill on artificial intelligence and is CIPP/Europe-certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

A law professor at the Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Thiago has also authored books including Fundamentos da Regulação da Privacidade e Proteção de Dados Pessoais (2019), Adimplemento Substancial e Cooperação do Credor (2011), and Eficácia dos Direitos Fundamentais nas Relações Privadas (2010).

Thiago also has a background working in the public sector, both as a prosecutor for the State of São Paulo and as an advisor to a judge in Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STJ).

Languages Spoken

Portuguese;

English;

Italian.

Education