About

The Spanish Mercedes-Benz legal team belongs to the Daimler legal team of around 200 lawyers worldwide and operates under the EMEA legal region of the business. The team is made up of five lawyers and one corporate governance expert. Led by head of legal department, Ana Prado Blanco, the legal team creates high impact changes across the business and maintains close collaboration with the finance, controlling and risk management departments. ‘Our legal team is a merger of quite different talents, with a remarkable amount of energy and creativity, being our principle to work with higher standards, good performance, loyalty and engagement’. With teamwork as a core value, the legal team are empowered to make their own decisions, operating independently with agility, coherence and an enthusiasm for the business, providing best legal solutions to all operating divisions based on the law and corporate requirements. The legal team has contributed to several important company-wide initiatives, recently assisting in setting up new digital services such as Share4Business, a smart app for car sharing of e-vehicles and the “Estrella” project, an IP project in order to avoid the unauthorised use of the Mercedes-Benz trademark in Spain. They have been central to contributing to communication initiatives by developing creative strategies for maintaining a close relationship to the employees and the business. ‘Our communication plan includes at least one e-mail communication every month addressed from our legal account in order to provide training, legal advice, information on the updates of the existing available documentation to be used, directions, guidelines and facts or news on legal topics’, explains Prado. The legal team is also responsible for the implementation of the antitrust compliance program, GDPR and the support in a CRM project.