About

General director of legal services at OHL, the IBEX-35 Spanish multinational construction and civil engineering company with approximate annual revenues of €3.5bn, José Maria del Cuvillo Pemán is a widely respected voice in the industry. He heads a team of 22 lawyers in Spain and 18 more in the global operations of OHL, and also holds the position of the vice secretary of the board of directors. During the course of 20 years at OHL he has implemented important structural changes to adapt the legal department to the new conditions of the growth, diversification and internationalisation of the company. Additionally, he created the legal corporate department, which provides legal services to all divisions. Del Cuvillo Pemán has had an integral role in all the major deals of OHL: ‘In the recent years we have participated in the exchange of assets with Abertis, a procedure through which we obtained a 10% share from the capital of this significant concession, which in turn resulted in our participation in the listed company of OHL Brazil and our concession assets in Chile’ he comments.