Bio

Juan Luis Delgado is currently the general counsel of MASORANGE, the result of the merger between ORANGE España and MASMOVIL Group, the second and fourth telecommunications operators in Spain. As senior director of the legal department he is responsible for the integration of the legal departments of both groups and for the global legal advice to all areas of the new group.

Juan Luis has developed his career in the entrepreneurial and juridical fields, having more than 30 years of seniority. During the last years before his current office, he has been the general counsel and the secretary of the board, member of the Executive Committee and CLCO of several companies with several shareholders groups of different nationalities operating in a highly competitive and technological sector such telecommunications. Specialisation fields to mention are Commercial and Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, IPOs, Telecommunications, Compliance and Business Law. He also has experience in managing internal audit and corporate security departments.

Before his current office, Juan Luis was the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of MASMOVIL Group including Legal, Compliance, Data Protection and Internal Audit responsibilities. MASMOVIL Group was the fourth telecommunication operator, having one of the fastest and amazing growing history of the telco industry, passing in only 10 years from being a small MVNO to be one of the most successful telco companies in Spain. During this period Juan Luis advised the Group in its organic and inorganic growth (including the acquisition of several companies; leading the IPO for making public the company and afterwords being the object of an exclusion takeover bid launched by Providence, Cinven and KKR, and finally, being active part in the negotiation and antitrust process for the merger with Orange España, creating the current MASORANGE Group).

Previously, Juan Luis had different responsibilities in the legal department of ONO, the most important cable operator in Spain in the 2000s, where he joined in 1997, when this company was just a small start-up. Juan Luis started as corporate lawyer ending as General Counsel and Secretary of the Board until its sale to Vodafone. During this period, Juan Luis lived and was an active party of the liberalisation of the telecommunications in Spain, assisting and advising ONO in a number of M&A transactions, cable licenses public bids, financings and business as usual legal advice. In his last period as general counsel, he was also in charge of the Internal Audit and Corporate Security Departments.

Juan Luis started as lawyer in Echarry & Brindle Abogados in 1994, has a master’s in business law (LLM) by the I.E. Business School and a Degree in Law by the University of Salamanca, among other postgraduate programs in legal and business administration. In 2022 its legal department was awarded with the Aptissimi Award by ESADE Alumni for the Best Corporate Legal Department and in 2023 was finalist in the 1st Edition of the El Confidencial Business Advocacy Awards as Best Corporate Legal Department.