Pedro is a partner and head of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice. With more than 18 years of professional experience as a lawyer, he has a broad professional practice in technology law and digital regulation. His clients include some of the most important technology companies (in terms of infrastructure, distribution or dissemination of content), media and communications companies, OTT services, video sharing platform providers, digital platforms (in multiple sectors), e-commerce service providers and other intermediaries.

Pedro has acted for private and public entities in a number of significant cases, both judicial and regulatory. He has particular experience in dealing with regulatory investigations (e.g. ERC, ANACOM, CNPD, DGC, CNCS, AMT, etc.), anticipating and overcoming problems with innovative and strategic approaches. He has assisted clients in multiple technological disputes, with a special focus on class actions, collective actions and injunctions. These include class actions on privacy, advertising, consumer, general contractual clauses and digital fundamental rights.

Pedro is also a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He earned a PhD in free speech law and commercial communications at the same faculty and he has a master's in research from the European University Institute.

He was also a Deputy Secretary of State of the Ministry of Regional Development in the 19th Constitutional Government (2013-2015) with responsibilities in the area of media policy and, subsequently, a Deputy Secretary of State and of Parliamentary Affairs in the 20th Constitutional Government (2015). He was also a legal adviser to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (2003).

Pedro has enjoyed a high profile in the media since 2004. He is a member of SIPE, Lisbon Digital Rights and Freedoms and various professional associations in his practice area.

Bar Admissions
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association in 2003

Education
Law degree from the University of Lisbon, 2000
Master of laws (legal-political sciences) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2005
Master of comparative law and international law from the European University Institute, 2008
Doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (being concluded)

Significant Accomplishments
Chambers Europe
2025 - Pedro Lomba, Band 2 Telecommunications, Media and Technology
2024 - Pedro Lomba, Band 3 Telecommunications, Media and Technology
2023 - Pedro Lomba, Band 3 Telecommunications, Media and Technology

The Legal 500
2025 - Pedro Lomba, Recommended Data protection and cybersecurity
2025 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Partners Telecommunications, Media and Technology
2025 - Pedro Lomba, Recommended Shipping & Transportation
2024 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Individuals Telecommunications, Media and Technology
2023 - Pedro Lomba, Recommended Data protection and cybersecurity
2023 - Pedro Lomba, Recommended Shipping & Transportation
2023 - Pedro Lomba, Recommended Telecommunications, Media and Technology
2022 - Pedro Lomba Data protection and cybersecurity
2022 - Pedro Lomba Telecommunications, Media and Technology
2022 - Pedro Lomba Shipping & Transportation
2021 - Pedro Lomba Shipping & Transportation
2021 - Pedro Lomba Telecommunications, Media and Technology
2021 - Pedro Lomba Intellectual Property
2021 - Pedro Lomba Data protection and cybersecurity

Other Awards
2024 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - Data Protection & Cybersecurity
2024 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - Telecoms
2024 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - Technology
2024 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - IP Litigation
2024 - Pedro Lomba, Excellent Leaders League - Trademark Prosecution
2023 - Pedro Lomba, Highly recommended Leaders League - Trademark Prosecution
2023 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - Technology
2023 - Pedro Lomba, Excelent Leaders League - Telecoms
2023 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - IP Litigation
2023 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - Data Protection & Cybersecurity
2021 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - Data Protection & Cybersecurity
2021 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - Technology
2020 - Pedro Lomba, Leading Leaders League - Data Protection & Cybersecurity
2020 - Pedro Lomba, Excellent Leaders League - Technology

Professional Associations

• International Bar Association
  

Professional Activities and Experience
Assistant-trainee at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2000-2005)
Legal consultant to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and to the Office of the Deputy Secretary of State of the
Prime Minister in the 15th Constitutional Government (2003-2004)
Visiting researcher, Yale Law School, 2009
Guest lecturer in constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon, 2011
Research at the European University Institute (2007-2011)
Visiting researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, 2012
Guest lecturer in constitutional law, public international law, European Union Law and constitutional justice at the Faculty
of Law of the University of Lisbon (2005-2013)
Legal consultant and adviser (2008-2013)
Deputy Secretary of State to the Deputy Minister of Regional Development in the 19th Constitutional Government (2013-
2015)
Deputy Secretary Of State and of Parliamentary Affairs in the 20th Constitutional Government, 2015

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  By Pedro Lomba, Nádia da Costa Ribeiro, Inês Cabugueira |November 2022

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