About Tiago Félix da Costa

Tiago Félix da Costa is a partner and head of Morais Leitão's criminal litigation, administrative sanctions/misdemeanour and compliance team, as well as co-ordinator of the data protection team. He joined the firm in 2007 and became a partner in 2015. Having been a practitioner of law since 2004, Tiago has wide experience in the areas of criminal and misdemeanour litigation and civil, corporate and commercial litigation. Recently, he has acted increasingly in the personal data protection sector, providing legal assistance on criminal and misdemeanour processes in this area and assisting several companies on the creation of policies and programmes of compliance in the personal data protection sector. Tiago is a member of the Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 2004), regularly teaches postgraduates in different law faculties and has contributed to several publications relating to data protection law. He holds certification from the Advanced Training Course on Data Protection Compliance in the EU (European Institute of Public Administration – EIPA, 2017).