About

In June 2014, William Villalobos Herrera assumed his current position at public company ESPH, operating in highly sensitive sectors, each with very different regulations in the sectors of energy, drinking water, wastewater, environment, environmental health, telecommunications and info-communications. Four years prior to joining ESPH, he obtained his license as a telecommunications operator in the country. ‘My arrival coincides with a redefinition of the business strategy that was taking place in the company in the telecommunications and info-communications sector. This posed an important challenge: to assess the way in which judicial assistance was being provided and how regulatory improvement should face the incursion in liberalised markets’ says Villalobos. His experience at ESPH provided to be an opportunity for significant professional growth, which complemented ‘wonderfully’ with his previous experience. Spending a little over eight years in the private sector as an associate attorney at Artivia & Barrantes allowed him to have a very clear vision of what the end user demands, how the administration is conceived from outside and what the expected dynamics are. Prior to his time in private practice he was in charge of the legal department of a major financial structuring company in the country, VSI, having under his responsibility the legal structuring company in the country. This involved the legal structuring of various kinds of multiple trusts and a series of complex transactions in investment and development projects. He has utilised this skillset to actively participate in everything related to compliance, monitoring, reform and implementation of the regulatory and competition requirements established by the regulatory entities driving the progress of ESPH businesses that incur in regulated service in energy, water, telecommunications and non-regulated service media and technology provision.