About

During his 17-year tenure as legal director at R Cable, Juan Manuel Sánchez Padrós has been a key decision maker in the Spanish telecommunications company. He joined R Cable in 1998, following an 11-year tenure in Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, one of the biggest law firms in Spain, in order to create an in-house legal department. To that end, he implemented procedures for approving and signing documents, templates of contracts with clients and other providers, and implemented corporate defence policies. Sánchez Padrós has invested a lot of time in making the legal function an indispensable part of the business; he trained the non-legal staff on legal matters to keep the organisation informed on the relevant regulatory issues and to improve legal’s overall standing in the business.