About

Daniel Quiñones Raffo first joined telecommunications company Entel Perú in 2008 as a telecom infrastructure counsel, working his way up to his current position of chief counsel in 2015. In his current position, Quiñones leads the legal and commercial strategy of the company, and has responsibility for all legal affairs of the company in addition to all corporate matters that span the areas of commercial law, tax and labour amongst others. Quiñones states that – along with colleagues – he helped accomplish the ‘biggest infrastructure deployment in Peruvian history’ which saw the construction of more than 1,000 telecom sites in Peru. Showing his leadership skills, Quiñones led the design of all strategies and policies regarding contracts, permits and licenses to deploy, in doing so ‘avoiding any legal impediments to the company working in a multidisciplinary environment’. Quiñones cites the 2016 adjudication of 30Mhz of the 700MHz band government litigation with a near $300m value as another high-importance matter he worked on. As the leader of the legal team of 19 lawyers for Entel Perú, Quiñones explains his ‘tireless and methodological’ work to fulfil all government requirements to become a qualified applicant without assistance of external law firms. Very quick to act and respond to changes in the legal and compliance framework, in 2017 Quiñones was required to ‘implement a crime prevention model for the company’ in responses to new risks for the company. He has also had influence internally in his creation and modification of new procedures and policies, training employees, modifying contracts and internal regulations. Another internal initiative that has brought positive change to the company was a knowledge exchange program involving ‘rotation between teams that allow employees to learn different areas of law’. This means his lawyers develop news skills and offer a more comprehensive legal service to the business, making them ‘able to address their responsibilities from different points of view, enriching the answers they give to internal and external clients’.