About

Patrick Remot is the legal director and chief compliance officer at Clear Channel France, the mass media organisation and recently a subsidiary of iHeartMedia. He started his career at a law firm in 1995 and moved in-house with Bouygues Telecom in 1999, taking up his current role 2013. On joining the company Remot had a quick and efficient impact, developing legally swift termination and assignment of major suppliers, application of new labour standards and a number of victories in competition cases including advance preparation in anticipation of mergers between competing operators. Remot allows smooth sailing of the commercial activities based on his ability to understand the business and be legally prepared early on in any commercial change. He is credited for building. Clear Channel’s legal department in an unknown environment of sectors and enterprises, while introducing internal legal communication through newsletters and satisfaction surveys, transmission of know-how and revision of litigation and legal policy for the group. ‘The fact that the legal department is solicited more often and far upstream in projects shows that the company has acquired the legal reflex and indicates business confidence in the legal department’. Remot depicts the two main qualities needed to direct a legal department: intense attention to operational constraints and business issues; and rigor, foresight and expertise in a range of legal areas.