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Rita de Sousa Costa

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Work Department

Technology, Media and Telecommunications

Position

Associate

Career

Rita is an associate at the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice. She provides regulatory, transactional and litigation advice in the areas of data protection, cybersecurity, media, advertising, consumer protection, smart mobility and emerging technologies.

She has advised clients from different industry sectors, such as clients from the mobility, audiovisual and entertainment, life sciences, digital platforms from the sharing economy, software development and cloud computing. She also has experience in working on secondment with clients.

Rita has a master’s in administrative law, with a minor in data protection, from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She has authored and co-authored Portuguese and international peer-reviewed publications, including a book chapter in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science’s collection edited by the publishing house Springer. Rita has also been panellist at international events and seminars in the intersection domains of law and technology.

Languages

Portuguese and English

Education

Law degree from the University of the Minho (Braga), 2017

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2021

Executive Training Course in General Regulation of Data Protection at the Católica-Lisbon School of Business & Economics, 2018

Summer Course in Advanced European Union Law at King’s College London, 2018

Executive Training Course on EU Competition Law at the College of Europe (Bruges), 2019

Master’s in Administrative Law, with minor in data protection, from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon), 2017