Melo Alves creates personal data protection and cybersecurity practice area

Melo Alves announces the creation of the new Privacy, Personal Data Protection and Cybersecurity practice area and the integration of the senior counsel Paulo Lacão to coordinate it.

Paulo Lacão will provide legal advice in the areas of personal data protection and cybersecurity to Melo Alves' current and future public and private clients. With a degree in law and a master's degree in law and management from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Paulo Lacão worked as a deputy in the cabinet of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Previously, he worked as a lawyer at VdA - Vieira de Almeida for four years in criminal and administrative offence litigation, having developed extensive experience in monitoring administrative offence proceedings in the field of personal data protection.

"We are able to respond to the most demanding expectations regarding the protection of sensitive or commercially advantageous information as a strategic asset in the development of a company, by providing a multifaceted service, combined with our experience acquired in internal investigations and criminal and administrative offence litigation," says Tiago Melo Alves, managing partner of Melo Alves.