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Sara Rocha
Senior Associate

Lawyer

Sara Rocha

Lisbon, Portugal
Languages
  • Portuguese
  • English
  • French
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Sara Rocha is a Senior Associate in the TMC - Technology, Media & Communications, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences & Healthcare teams. Also she is part of the ESG Task Force.

Sara specializes mainly in advertising, marketing and electronic communications, e-commerce, consumer law, data protection, and privacy, copyright and related rights, and health and life sciences.

Sara is recommended for TMT, Data Privacy and Data Protection and Intellectual Property, by Legal 500, 2025. She is acknowledged as a Rising Star by IP Stars, 2025 and recognised for Privacy and Data Security Law, as Ones to Watch, by Best Lawyers, 2023.

Joined CMS Portugal in 2017.

Awards & Recognitions
01 –
  • Award
    Sara Rocha – Always available, dedicated and diligent. Her work is of high quality and reveals the solidity of his knowledge. Cultivates proximity to customers.
    Legal 500 (2024)

Publications

  • ROCHA, Sara - "Pode a primeira-dama ser processada pela Casa Valentino?", in Marketeer, 2026
  • ROCHA, Sara - "Influencers e dupes: o novo mainstream", in Marketeer, 2026
  • ROCHA, Sara – “Marcas no Mundial de 2026: agir antes do apito inicial, in Marketeer, 2026
  • ROCHA, Sara – “Quando um Donut deixa de ser apenas um Donut “, in Marketeer, 2025.
  • ROCHA, Sara – “O lado oculto da Black Friday”, in Marketeer, 2025.
  • ROCHA, Sara – “Guia para uma Black Friday às claras e mais sustentável”, in Marketeer, 2025.
  • ROCHA, Sara – “O que é que o Mbappé, o Ronaldo e o Gyökeres têm em comum?”, in Record, 2024.
  • ROCHA, Sara – “Alterações à Lei da Droga: um passo maior do que a perna”, in Público, 2023.
  • ROCHA, Sara – “Mais transparência e interoperabilidade nas Big Tech?”, in Sapo Tek, 2023.
  • ROCHA, Sara – “Estará Portugal preparado para uma verdadeira regulação para o consumo recreativo de cannabis?”, in Público, 2021

Memberships & Roles

  • Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 2019

Education

  • Law Degree, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Postgraduate degree in E-Commerce, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Postgraduate degree in Personal Data Protection, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Data Protection Certification by the Irish Computer Society.
Practice Areas
Intellectual Property
sectors
TMC - Technology, Media & Communications Life Sciences & Healthcare Consumer Products

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Event Portugal

CMS at INTA 2026

02 May 2026
Newsletter Portugal

Portugal enhances its framework to combat the dissemination of terrorist content online

29 Jan 2026 3 min read
Newsletter Portugal

ONLINE GAMING: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS NO. 828/2015 AND NO. 903-A/2015 UNDER PUBLIC CONSULTATION

28 Jan 2026 2 min read
Newsletter Portugal

European Union and Brazil adopt mutual adequacy decision on personal data protection

28 Jan 2026 2 min read
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