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Eduardo Paranhos

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Experience

Eduardo Paranhos is admitted to the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/RJ and OAB/SP), and has almost 30 years of experience with emphasis on corporate governance, contracts, data protection, artificial intelligence, intellectual property and competition law. His experience includes a combination of executive positions in large companies, law firms and various positions in associations, covering legal consultancy, transactional and litigation practice. Having started his career in the legal department of the National Confederation of Industry – CNI, in 1994, Eduardo worked in a large firm until 2005, when he joined the Legal and Corporate Affairs team at Microsoft, where he worked for 10 years in different positions. In 2015, Eduardo became the legal director for HP in Brazil, supporting the local implementation of one of the largest corporate spin-off projects in the world (HP / Hewlett Packard Enterprise). Between 2016 and 2019, Eduardo was Tetra Pak’s Legal Vice President for the Americas, leading teams of lawyers in six countries handling all legal and corporate governance issues of the group in North, Central and South America. Eduardo founded, with former Microsoft colleagues, the law firm Esper, Paranhos, Gushiken (EPG Advogados), in 2019, which associated to Ouro Preto Advogados in 2025.

Eduardo holds a law degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) since 1997, a postgraduate degree in Intellectual Property Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ) since 2000, and an LL.M in Commercial and Corporate Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London, since 2002.

Eduardo frequently gives lectures in his areas of expertise in Brazil and abroad, including, for example, at the World Trade Organization (WTO), where in 2024 he was a speaker at an international conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva on artificial intelligence regulation.

An active participant in entities linked to the technology sector, Eduardo is currently the head of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Brazilian Software Association (ABES), since 2021, as well as Board Member of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Association (ABPI), re-elected for the 2024-2025 biennium, having previously been vice president of ABPI between 2010 and 2015. Eduardo is a volunteer Ambassador-Counsellor to the Chevening program, which manages scholarships for master’s degrees in the United Kingdom for candidates selected as future leaders in their fields of expertise.

Eduardo has also served on executive or advisory committees in entities such as the Business Software Alliance – BSA (board of members in Brazil), The British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil – BRITCHAM (member of the executive committee/RJ and leader of the membership committee /RJ), Brazilian Institute of Ethics in Competition – ETCO (member of the board), among others.