José Maria Alves Pereira
Senior Associate Lawyer | Lisbon
- Practice Areas
- Intellectual Property and Information Technology
- Industries
- Fintech
- Art & Entertainment
- Technology, Media & Telecommunications
- Digital Economy, Retail & Distribution
- Languages
- English
- Spanish
- Contacts
José Maria Alves Pereira is a senior associate lawyer and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2017, working mainly in the areas of intellectual property and information technology.
José Maria has extensive practical experience on matters relating to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), including Data Processing Agreements, advice on regulatory matters, as well as drafting and reviewing privacy notices.
He has also provided assistance on how to respond to data breaches (including drafting data breach notifications, and data breach reports), in addition to assessing the level of compliance of new challenging projects, as well as providing on-going advice.
Additionally, José has a vast experience in the areas of
e-commerce, consumer law, media, advertising, information technology and the internet, on matters such as compliance projects regarding growing technologies, software development agreements, e-commerce platforms, cybersecurity issues, and providing advice with regard to advertising activities (online and offline).
Furthermore, José has also participated in complex M&A operations, namely within the areas of industrial property, data protection and information technologies.
His experience includes advising leading international and local companies across the technology, healthcare, food, retail and automotive industries with their compliance projects (on all stages of their development).
José Maria is an Irish Computer Society Certified Data Protection Practitioner.
Experience
Education
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa
Law degree (2012)
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Postgraduate Diploma on Public Companies and the Stock Market (2014)
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa
Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law (2017)
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa
Master’s degree in Corporate Legal Sciences (attending)
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Data Privacy Course
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa
Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Data Protection Law (2020)