Iberia Teams 2017
| Telefónica
Telefónica
| Telefónica - Business Legal Affairs and Legal Digital Transformation
‘Because our values are clear, the decisions we take along our path of digital transformation are sound and guided by a single thought; nobody will be left behind’ states Luis...
| Telefónica - Audiovisual Digital
‘We are above all “business partners”. We work very close to the business team. We apply and interpret specialised law and rules for the media business to make sure that...
| Telefónica del Perú
The legal team of Telefónica del Perú provides a high level of legal services to the telecommunication giant and its 16 other companies of the same economic Group established in...
| Telefónica Ireland
Niall Shanley is Telefónica’s most senior lawyer in Ireland and manages all matters encompassing legal and company secretarial for Telefónica’s business in the country. Global telecommunications group Telefónica have an...
| Telefónica (Movistar)
Branded as Movistar, Telefónica operates the local mobile network in Colombia, having purchased the entire operations of now-defunct American telecoms company in BellSouth in 2004 in a $5.8bn deal. Since...
| Telefónica Brasil
Telefónica, the world’s largest telecommunications conglomerate, present in 20 countries and employing more than 120,000 people, sells its products and services in Brazil under the trade name Vivo. The company...
| Telefónica Global Services
Internally, the Telefónica Global Services legal team’s work has been ‘all about digitalisation’ recently, according to general counsel in Germany Florian Engel: ‘We are streamlining contractual works and processes by...
| Telefónica Móviles Colombia
Telefónica Colombia’s highly talented in-house legal team made up of 27 lawyers and four support staff continues to impress after its recognition in the GC Powerlist: Colombia Teams in 2017....
| Telefónica Panamá
Telefónica Moviles Panamá is a subsidiary of Spain’s telecommunications company Telefónica Móviles and operates under the brand name Movistar. Spun out of the merger of BellSouth and Telefónica Móvil, the...
| Telefónica
A team full of talented lawyers with a number of different attributes provides advice to Telefónica’s highly significant operations in Chile. Headquartered in Santiago, Telefónica Chile provides broadband, pay television,...
| Telefónica
Owned by the Spanish broadband and telecommunications giant Telefónica, Telefónica Argentina stands as the largest and leading fixed-line operator in the country. It provides broadband, local and long distance telephone...
| Telefónica
The 29-strong legal team at Telefónica UK has had a lot to contend with over the last 12 months, encompassing all areas of the law but particularly commercial and litigation....
As one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world, and one of the largest companies in Spain, Telefónica faces a wide range of legal issues. The wider Telefónica legal team is widely regarded as among the finest in Europe, with its Spanish-centred operations standing out in particular. The legal team is led by group general counsel Ramiro Sánchez de Lerín, a hugely influential figure in Spanish law, though the team is also highly regarded in its own right and contains many of Iberia’s finest lawyers. One nominator comments that Sánchez has ‘demonstrated an extraordinary ability to lead the legal team of this Spanish company that has become a worldwide reference in telecommunications and technology’ and praises the ‘ability of the team to negotiate the purchase of telecommunication operators from different markets as well as the capacity to manage the very different and changing regulations in force in the different countries where Telefónica has set up businesses’. The team has also been involved in Telefónica’s recent diversification strategies, including consolidating its presence in the Spanish pay-TV market following the 2014 acquisition of Digital Plus, and helping to roll out new mobile services. As a cofounder of Spain’s first 5G technology laboratory 5TONIC, the company has recently entered into agreements to develop the provision of 5G mobile services in Spain.
