Mr Martín Pesce > Ferrere > Montevideo, Uruguay > Lawyer Profile
Ferrere Offices
EDIFICIO FERRERE
JUNCAL 1392
MONTEVIDEO
Uruguay
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Mr Martín Pesce
Work Department
Intellectual Property, Data Privacy and Information Technologies, Fintech, Food and Beverages, Consumer Products
Position
Partner
Career
Martín Pesce has specialized in data protection and leads the FERRERE new technologies and data protection team. He teaches Information Technology Law I and II at the Law School of Universidad de la República.
He advises local and international companies including Nike, Equifax, IBM, Scotiabank, Nielsen, Diageo, Nestlé and Microsoft, among others. He has been appointed by multinational corporations as Data Protection Officer (DPO) to represent them vis-à-vis Uruguay’s Personal Data Regulatory and Control Unit.
He participates frequently in academic events and as speaker in Uruguay and abroad. He is the author of numerous specialized articles for national and international publications and is a regular contributor to ItechLaw, DataGuidance and Bloomberg Law.
Languages
English, Spanish
Memberships
He is co-chair for Uruguay of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and Uruguayan representative to the Latin American Privacy Association. He has been appointed to the DataGuidance global panel of experts, and is the author of the Uruguayan chapter of the Global Privacy Book among other publications.
He´s member of the Uruguayan Bar Association (CAU).
Education
- Attorney, Universidad de la República (Uruguay), 2005.
Lawyer Rankings
Uruguay > Intellectual property
The ‘first-class’ team at Ferrere offers the complete range of IP services, including trade mark filing, litigation and anti-counterfeit work. Clients benefit from the firm’s presence in Montevideo, Tacuarembó, Colonia and the free zone in Aguada Park, Montevideo, as well as its international offices in Bolivia and Paraguay. The firm has a track record advising companies in the pharmaceuticals, food and drink, cybersecurity, media and advertising sectors, as well as Uruguay’s burgeoning domestic cannabis industry. A recent work highlight saw the ‘extraordinary’, ‘solid’ and ‘responsive’ team advise audiovisual company Cimarrón on IP-related matters that arose in the production of several series for Amazon and other platforms. Regional managing partner Agustín Mayer heads the practice and a particular focus on patents, with niche expertise in pharmaceutical product patents. Martín Pesce takes care of data privacy-related matters. Alejandro Alterwain and Stella Weng are highlighted as ‘excellent and hands-on’; Alterwain has participated in key cases involving litigation before the Supreme Court, and Weng specialises in patent and trade mark filing, as well as prosecution.
Lawyer Rankings
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