Lahorgue Advogadas Associadas (LAA) was created as an all-women firm that welcomes all individuals who are passionate about law, have a solid academic background, capability to solve complex legal challenges, and are keen to learn. The firm specializes in assisting clients hailing from the Media and Entertainment segment, as well as counseling on Privacy and Data Protection matters. LAA consultancy consists of an in-depth and multifocal assessment of issues, which aims at structuring the best legal solution, taking into consideration potential risks and identifying alternatives that meet the client’s business needs. The firm also stands out for offering tailor-made training for in-house counsel, in each of its areas of expertise.
Main Areas of Practice
Media & Entertainment
Lahorgue Advogadas Associadas’s team possesses vast knowledge in many areas of law that are essential to the development of these activities in this important sector of the global economy. This includes constitutional principles such as freedom of expression, right to information and to privacy, copyright, aspects of industrial property, civil and criminal consequences for violation of these rights, regulatory law, sports law, labor law, regulation on traditional and digital media, among others.
The firm's clientele encompasses all sorts of audiovisual production companies, digital platforms, distributors of musical and audiovisual works, social media companies, television networks and pay TV channels, publishing companies, advertising agencies, stakeholders in the sports business and private equity investors of projects involving copyright.
Privacy and Data Protection
The international experience of its founding partner Simone Lahorgue Nunes (Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe CIPP – E, Certified Information Privacy Manager – CIPM and Certified Data Protection Officer – CDPO/BR) and the experience acquired during her tenure serving as co-chair of the Technology Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) in the bi-annual term 2015/2016, provided LAA's team with a unique opportunity to develop a thorough knowledge of the European legal framework on this matter and specifically of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which inspired the Brazilian LGPD. Therefore, LAA legal team has the expertise required to assist GPDR-compliant clients in adapting to the LGPD.
