PLMJ

Technology, Media and Telecommunications

Partner

Pedro is a partner and head of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice. With more than 18 years of professional experience as a lawyer, he has a broad professional practice in technology law and digital regulation. His clients include some of the most important technology companies (in terms of infrastructure, distribution or dissemination of content), media and communications companies, OTT services, video sharing platform providers, digital platforms (in multiple sectors), e-commerce service providers and other intermediaries.

Pedro has acted for private and public entities in a number of significant cases, both judicial and regulatory. He has particular experience in dealing with regulatory investigations (e.g. ERC, ANACOM, CNPD, DGC, CNCS, AMT, etc.), anticipating and overcoming problems with innovative and strategic approaches. He has assisted clients in multiple technological disputes, with a special focus on class actions, collective actions and injunctions. These include class actions on privacy, advertising, consumer, general contractual clauses and digital fundamental rights.

Pedro is also a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He earned a PhD in free speech law and commercial communications at the same faculty and he has a master’s in research from the European University Institute.

He was also a Deputy Secretary of State of the Ministry of Regional Development in the 19th Constitutional Government (2013-2015) with responsibilities in the area of media policy and, subsequently, a Deputy Secretary of State and of Parliamentary Affairs in the 20th Constitutional Government (2015). He was also a legal adviser to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (2003).

Pedro has enjoyed a high profile in the media since 2004. He is a member of SIPE, Lisbon Digital Rights and Freedoms and various professional associations in his practice area.

Portuguese, English, French, Spanish and Italian

Portuguese Bar Association

Law degree from the University of Lisbon, 2000

Master of laws (legal-political sciences) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2005

Master of comparative law and international law from the European University Institute, 2008

Doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon