Intellectual Property and Information Technology

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.

Portuguese Bar Association

IBA - International Bar Association

Senior Associate Lawyer

Law Degree from Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa (2012)

Postgraduate Diploma on Public Companies and the Stock Market from Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2014)

Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law from Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa (2017)

Data Privacy Course from Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Data Protection Law from Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa (2020)

Master’s degree in Corporate Legal Sciences from Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa (attending)