About

US-based, NASDAQ-listed NII Holdings provides mobile communication services in Argentina and, through its subsidiary Nextel Telecomunicações, Brazil. Shana Smith joined NII in 2009 and has served as the company’s general counsel and corporate secretary since 2015. In addition to leading NII’s legal affairs, Smith is responsible for its corporate governance, ethics and compliance programmes, handling litigation, human resources, trademark and IP work, and executive compensation. She has also served as member of the board of directors of NII’s subsidiaries in the US, Western Europe, the Caribbean and South America. Before joining NII, Smith was corporate counsel for securities and finance at global wireless services and internet provider Sprint Nextel and before that worked as a corporate associate with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson.