What are the projects that you are most proud of working on over the past 12 months?

Legal Department of Huawei is really involved with all the areas of the company, from Sales, to Procurement, Finance, Human Resources, delivery, different business Areas and for sure CEO and directors, not only local but regional or even with HQ. As a multinational company with presence in more than 170 countries our work must be local, regional and global.

About what projects I can say that I was proud of work last 12 months, I can sincerely answer that for sure are many, one for example is to be selected as one of the latam General Counselor representatives to be part of a meeting with also selected General Counselor from all the continents to participate in an event in HQ to improve the GC role worldwide inside our company, that experience was great we enjoyed great full moments will GC from allover the world as for example Spain, Kuwait, Japan, Italy, Malaysia, China, South Africa, Kenya among other countries.

About specific projects, I can also say I am very proud to be part of projects related to cybersecurity and data protection, tax cases, FTA application and new contract with our business model. About the mentioned topics I can said that in cybersecurity and data protection topics we did a hard job analyzing the laws, projects of law, giving suggestions, reviewing international standards and preparing policies to improve our company, we worked together with external lawfirms and obtained great success in the understanding, and implementation. About second point, that mean to close some tax cases we have in administrative stage, we did a wonderful job in a jointly work with tax department and finance department, with who we did a great analysis and saving xxx dollars to the company. Finally, also very proud to work in application of FTA with China and negotiating very important new sales contracts with customers under a proposed business model, in this topic customer at the beginning has other idea and I can explain the benefits of our proposal and finally was accepted. For confidentiality I cannot give more details of each project.

How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crisis to ensure the organisation’s resilience?

First of all understanding the scenario, we must understand that some crisis moments are also opportunity moments, then we need to identify the good aspects in all, a crisis can be an opportunity; second we have to work harder to succeed, a crisis is a challenge and we need to win the challenge that we face in the live, third always remind the personal and corporate values, we need to look for options but never forget the north, sometimes in crisis moments people despair and start taking wrong or illegal decisions then we have to keep faith and have a north, that means work harder have faith in what we do and after storm obtain the good results.

What do you think sets you apart from other in-house counsel?

Be open doors, hear the people, be patient, be near the staff, be hard worker, deliver result on time and quality then if directors and staff trust in you as counselor you can save time and problems because instead claims or demands they will come to try to solve the problem by talking.

What do you think are the most important attributes for a modern in-house counsel to possess?

The most important attribute is remind that however we are lawyers we work for a company and then we need to learn all the areas and the business, as counselor of companies we are part of the business, we are also business guys and then to sell need to understand not only the laws but also the business, environment, politics and negotiation skills.

Based on your experiences in the past year, are there any trends in the legal or business world that you are keeping an eye on that you think other in-house lawyers should be mindful of?

I think all of us need to keep an eye on in AI and cybersecurity, next years this topic is going to increase in prominence a lot, so we need to understand and follow what is happening.