The day-to-day life of an in-house counsel at sports broadcasting giant is a hectic one, with securing broadcast rights, combating piracy efforts and securing ad-based revenue all taking on high priority for the team and providing unique challenges. The organisation continues to add high value sporting rights to its repertoire from rivals, as part of a highly competitive and continuous effort to prolong its market-leading status.

As an example of this, ESPN Latin America announced in February 2018 that it has secured exclusive rights to broadcast ATP World Tour 500 tennis series across Latin America and the Caribbean. Principal counsel for Spanish-speaking Latin America Federico Vibes is a copyright, trademark and entertainment law specialist, making him the ideal person to head up ESPN’s legal response to these business-critical issues; he has been with the company since 2013 and been at the forefront of a number of successful projects during this time. Alongside him, Paz Villamil and Agustina Lanardonne – senior attorney and legal counsel respectively – were also mentioned by sources as having utilised a highly proactive and efficient approach that has had a major appreciable impact on the team’s successes.