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Sara Henriques

sara.henriques@spsadvogados.com

Work Department

Corporate, Commercial and M&A / Intellectual and Industrial Property / Data Protection & Data Privacy

Position

Partner

Career

Partner at SPS Law Firm, where she started her career in 2003.

She is partner at Corporate and Commercial department and is the head of the Data Protection and Intellectual and Industrial Property area, handling issues such as brands, copyrights and advertising law. With an outstanding ability of customer care, and her dynamic spirit of engagement with the client, her work goes through providing legal advice on day-to-day operations of Companies, complementing the internal Legal Department or, when organisations do not have such department, ensuring they have all necessary legal support: negotiation of a variety of contractual instruments (particularly SPA’s and commercial and distribution agreements), marketing campaigns approval or due diligence reports are part of her day-to-day work. We highlight her accumulated experience in the food industry and retail, health sector as well as automotive industry.

Her main areas of practice are Corporate and Commercial Law, M&A, Advertising and Marketing Law, as well as Data Protection Law, area in which has focused its analysis and practice attending to the new General Data Protection Regulation, being also DPO for five (5) corporate groups, national and international.

Languages

Portuguese, English, Spanish

Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association

ALFA International Global Legal Network

Education

Sara has a law degree from the University of Lisbon Law School, a Post-graduate studies in Company Law from the University of Coimbra Law School, a Post-graduate studies in Consumer Law from the University of Lisbon Law School and recently she got a Certification for Data Protection Officer (DPO) from the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht.