About

For any corporate legal team operating within the telecommunications sector, coping with the distinctive commercial, legal and compliance issues is often the biggest challenge in the job. For VTR Chile’s legal department, this is compounded by the recent growing demands applied by regulators in the country, which requires the team to stay on-top of a rapidly changing environment by studying and interpreting the potential impact of new laws and regulations. This has further increased the importance of the function within the larger company, as senior decision makers are now more invested than ever in the team’s advice on how certain legislative or regulatory changes could impact both VTR’s short term performance and future strategy. The team’s remit has therefore grown to include a plethora of strategic tasks in addition to its already substantial operational coverage. The leader of the team is Miguel Oyonarte, who has been described as a ‘very good’ lawyer, a ‘tough negotiator’ and ‘one of the best telecoms lawyers in Chile’ by nominators. He joined the company from the general counsel role at Nextel Chile (currently known as WOM). His very broad experience in telecoms law and regulations, as well as his ability to ‘integrate a broad strategy and vision of the telecoms market’ have both shaped the team’s profile, and distinguishes it as one of the most outstanding legal departments in the industry. Oyonarte is not the only impressive performer within the team however, as a number of lawyers in the department have drawn praise from a number of sources. These include Jose F. Silva, Adriana Puelma, Natalia Paz Lucero García, Matías Danus and Diego Cortes.