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Jose Saras

Jose Saras

Work Department

Telecoms and technology group.

Position

Jose is a partner at PREISKEL & CO LLP and has international experience advising clients on telecoms, technology, commercial and data protection law. Together with Preiskel’s international team of lawyers, he advises clients on a wide range of telecoms and technology matters. Some of the clients he has advised include a major global Korean handset manufacturer, various OTT providers, a major international WiFi provider, mobile data clearing houses, telecoms data centres, minutes’ exchanges and various UK and international telecoms resellers. He also advises on cloud issues and software as a service agreements, encryption, RIPA and Ofcom compliance audits.

Career

Qualified 2001 (Spain), 2005 (England). Jose is a dual qualified lawyer (Spain and England) and since 2004 has worked in several top City law firms (first as a European lawyer and then as a dual qualified lawyer). In 2007 he joined PREISKEL & CO LLP as a senior associate and was subsequently promoted to partner in 2014.

Languages

English, Spanish, Portuguese.

Memberships

European Lawyers Association; ITSPA; ISPA; FCS; MEF Global; iMVNOx Association; Spanish Chamber of Commerce; Lexing network of emerging technology lawyers.

Education

Degree in Law at Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (1998); Equivalent to LPC Legal Practice Degree in Law, IE Law School (Madrid, Spain) (1999); LLM, Master in Law in Telecoms, IT and IP Law, IE Law School (Madrid, Spain) (2001); Diploma in Commercial Law; College of Law (London) (2004).

Leisure

Travel, theatre, basketball and football.

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