Alan Campos Elias Thomaz

Alan Campos Elias Thomaz is a partner at CT | Campos Thomaz Advogados.

Highly specialized in law and technology. Advises national and international high-profile tech clients in regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters.

Founding Partner of Campos Thomaz Advogados with over 15 ( fteen) years of experience in the tech industry. Alan worked for over 10 (ten) years at Mattos Filho Advogados, Brazilian BigLaw.

Alan is the only Brazilian outside counsel with a higher education (master's degree) in Brazil (FGV), Europe (Tilburg), and the United States (Stanford).

Professor and coauthor of several books and articles on law and technology.

Over the past decade, Alan advised BigTech companies (including Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Telegram, Netflix, and others) in navigating legal challenges of online services, such as product and intermediary liability, digital markets regulation, content moderation, social media, messaging apps, cloud, AdTech, e-commerce and marketplaces, electoral, streaming, gaming and betting, data and artificial intelligence, advocacy, and others. Experience in assisting shared-economy apps, FinTech and AI companies. Between 2022-2024, Alan was the leading partner assisting Telegram in all legal matters in Brazil.

Education

Bachelor (JD Equivalent) in Law at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie;
PGDip in intellectual property and new technologies at Faculdade Getúlio Vargas (FGV);
Master’s in business law at Faculdade Getúlio Vargas (FGV);
Master (LLM) in Law and Technology at Tilburg University;
Master (LLM) in Law, Science, and Technology at Stanford Law School.

Professional Associations:

Former Chair, Advisory Board and Official Training Partner of the International Association of Privacy Professionals – IAPP
International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw)
International Bar Association (IBA)
Brazilian Intellectual Property Association (ABPI)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
International Association of Artificial Intelligence (I2AI)
Academic Director of ATech Privacy Center
Academic Director of Juventude Privada
Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/SP)

Recognitions

Individual recognitions from Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, and other rankings as one of the best lawyers in the tech industry.
Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) – IAPP
CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPP/E and CDPO/BR – IAPP
Legal 500
Leaders League
Analise.com