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When the US-headquartered telecommunications provider CenturyLink acquired Level 3 Communications for $24bn in 2017, it meant Daniel Mora was tasked with overseeing the smooth transition of Level 3’s Peruvian legal operation. Mora had been at Level 3 since 2010 working as legal counsel coordinator and deputy chairman in Venezuela for five years and then in Argentina as regional legal counsel for Latin America until the global merger. Having been in his new position of senior manager legal counsel for Peru since August 2017, Mora has built on his reputation as a fine in-house lawyer, which has not gone unnoticed by private practice lawyers in the country. Originally from Venezuela, he has also been highlighted for seamlessly transitioning across jurisdictions in Latin America with an advanced level of understanding of the different laws relating to the telecommunications sector. Describing his current role, Mora says he is ‘in charge of structuring the legal department, its relations to the company’s business units and its internal processes, as well as concurrently implementing the company’s global policy of using standardised contract documentation in the Venezuelan, Mexican, Costa Rican, and Miami markets’. He has recently worked on regulatory matters for the Venezuela and Mexico entities and advised on the legal processes in Latin America after the merger of Global Crossing and Level 3 and then the same for Level 3 and CenturyLink merger. Describing the internal changes he has made to the company, Mora says, ‘I have led, together with the legal team, on integrating the culture of ethical compliance, global processes and strategies in Latin America’. He adds, ‘I have achieved efficiency in strategic decision-making within the legal framework of each country in Latin America, minimising the risks in local markets that are presented in each country to my office’.