Bruno Gutman

Lawyer · Founding Partner · Corporate, Tech & VC · Sports Law

Bruno Gutman, Lawyer · Founding Partner — Gutman, Rattes, Pimenta & Cleistenes - GRPC
bruno@grpclaw.com

Credentials

  • Portuguese Bar Association, OA 59189P (2018)
  • Brazilian Bar Association, OAB/RJ 118.768 (2003)
  • Portuguese (native), English (fluent, Cambridge CAE 1998)

Bruno Gutman is a lawyer, admitted to the Brazilian Bar Association since 2003 and to the Portuguese Bar Association since 2018.

With more than 23 years of consolidated legal experience, he was founder and managing partner of Gutman e Silva Advogados, in Rio de Janeiro, a sizeable firm structured across several practice areas.

A long track record in the internal governance of Brazilian sports federations (general meetings, electoral processes, regulations, athlete registrations) and in the strategic relationship between athletes, clubs and agents.

Experience in sports compliance and ethics under international regulations, having served as President of the Sports Justice Tribunal of the Brazilian Modern Pentathlon Confederation. He currently sits on the Tribunal of the International Modern Pentathlon Federation.

Awarded the title of Honorary Member of the Football Federation of the State of Rio de Janeiro in 2004, granted by unanimous resolution of the General Assembly for services rendered to football.

He is the first and only Brazilian lawyer to hold an executive position at the Portuguese Bar Association, in the Braga Delegation.

Established in Portugal since 2018, he operates at the intersection of European legal rigour and the business agility of the Brazilian ecosystem, bringing a transnational perspective to his clients' complex legal challenges.

He is currently a founding partner of GRPC Private Legal Office, where he works on structuring legal transactions, startups, technology, innovation, venture capital and sports law.

Education

  • Intensive Course on the General Data Protection Regulation (2018) — University of Lisbon
  • Postgraduate degree in Consumer Law (2004) — Rio de Janeiro State Judiciary School
  • Law degree (2003) — Estácio de Sá University

Focus areas

  • Corporate, Tech & VC
  • Sports Law
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Institutional track record

Institutional leadership

  • Board member of the Braga Delegation of the Portuguese Bar Association (Braga, Portugal)
  • Brazil-Portugal Committee of OAB/RJ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • Director of Funcex Europa, Foreign Trade Studies Centre Foundation (Portugal)
  • Board member of the Beiras Region Chamber of Commerce (Fundão, Portugal)

Investment and mentoring

  • Investor at Angels Way (Portugal)
  • Sports Legal Advisor at CoreAngels SportTech (Portugal)
  • Startup mentor at Macau Spin Incubator (Macau, China)
  • Startup mentor at Founder Institute (Portugal)

Sports bodies

  • Arbitrator at the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne, UIPM (Monaco)
  • President and Auditor of the Superior Court of Sports Justice of the Brazilian Modern Pentathlon Confederation (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • Auditor of the Superior Court of Sports Justice of the National Association of Sport for People with Disabilities (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • Honorary Member of the Football Federation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Further training

  • Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing, BCFT (Lisbon, 2025)
  • Sports Administration Course, International Olympic Committee
  • Brazilian Football Modernisation Plan, FGV and CBF
  • FIFA Club World Championship, volunteer (2000)

Conferences and speaking

  • Law Summer 2026Co-organiser and moderator of the panel “Compliance e Deontologia Digital” · University of Minho, Braga
  • GITEX AI EuropeJudge of the “Supernova Pitch Competition” · Berlin, Germany
  • Startup Olé Salamanca’25Speaker on two panels about investment and business angels · Salamanca, Spain
  • Law Summer 2025Speaker on investment in venture capital funds · University of Coimbra
  • Websummit2023, 2024 and 2025 editions · Lisbon
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2026

  • Law Summer 2026, co-organiser and moderator of the panel “Compliance e Deontologia Digital” (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal)
  • GITEX AI Europe, judge of the “Supernova Pitch Competition” (Berlin, Germany)
  • A Constituição Portuguesa na Memória de Braga: Liberdade, Direitos e Democracia, speaker (Lúcio Craveiro da Silva Library, Braga, Portugal)
  • I Jornadas de Deontologia, moderator of the panel “Honorários: Quota Littis e Quota Palmarium” (Braga, Portugal)

2025

  • Websummit 2025 (Lisbon, Portugal)
  • SIM Conference (Porto, Portugal)
  • I CPLP Business and Economic Forum (Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Debate “A Nova Lei de Imigração e Nacionalidade: Desafios, Oportunidades e Perspetivas”, moderator (Braga Delegation of the Portuguese Bar Association, Lúcio Craveiro da Silva Library, Braga, Portugal)
  • Conference “Direitos dos Estrangeiros”, moderator (Consulate-General of the Republic of Angola in Porto, Portugal)
  • Law Summer 2025, speaker “Investimento em Fundos de Capital de Risco: Regime Jurídico e Oportunidades para Estrangeiros” (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
  • Startup Olé Salamanca’25, speaker on the panels “Investor Expectations and Startup Requirements” and “What Business Angels Really Look for in a Project” (Salamanca, Spain)

2024 and 2023

  • Websummit 2024 and 2023 (Lisbon, Portugal)
  • SIM Conference (Porto, Portugal)
  • PNAID, National Programme for Diaspora Investor Support (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
  • Conference “Relações Comerciais Brasil-CPLP” (CPLP Business Confederation, Belém Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal)
  • EU-CELAC Conference, Euroamérica Foundation (Casa da América Latina, Lisbon, Portugal)
  • 1st Portuguese-Brazilian Broadcasting Seminar (Casa da América Latina, Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Global Innovation Summit (Cascais, Portugal)
  • Conference “Brasil: Oportunidades de Internacionalização para PME portuguesas”, co-organiser (Braga Business Association and State of Rio de Janeiro, Braga, Portugal)

Earlier

  • 2nd International Summit of Portuguese-Speaking Cooperatives, speaker on the panel “Mobilidade de Pessoas no Espaço Lusófono” (Torres Vedras, Portugal)
  • II Portuguese-Brazilian Conference on Civil Liability, presentation of the paper on civil liability for the judicial use of personal data and Law 13.709/2018 (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
  • Lecture “Questões Éticas e Legais para os profissionais de TI” (Instituto Infnet, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • Round table “Médico Veterinário Empresário: questões quotidianas e dúvidas” (Veterinary Medicine Council of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • Lecture on Sports Legislation at the Sports Journalism Course (Fundação Mudes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • 1st National Sport Conference (Ministry of Sport, Brasília, Brazil)

Publications and media

Público BrasilColumnist
O MinhoColumnist
Rádio Antena MinhoHost and producer of the “Nove em Ação” programme, Braga (2023)