About

‘Dynamic and capable’ and with ‘an extensive knowledge of telecommunications’ Daniel Mora worked at Compañia Anonima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela (CANTV), before moving to Global Crossing (today Level 3 Communications) in 2010, where he is senior legal counsel and also alternative chairman (suplente al Presidente) for Venezuela. Since his arrival he has restructured 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 (barring local regulatory and judicial aspects) contract documentation in the Venezuelan market. The accruing efficiencies extend to an excellent record in compliance matters, facilitating operation in ‘a highly challenging business market’ that is characterised by ‘challenges presented not only by normal regulatory matters but also the entire politico-economic context’. ‘Practical and very straight-forward in his manner’, Mora notes that in such a scenario one becomes the weathervane of business decisions, determining risks and limits. He regards the role of the in-house in volatile markets such as Venezuela as requiring business vision that goes above-and-beyond cornerstone legal advice, and which can accommodate innovation, creativity and assertiveness in decisions that are taken. A counterweight to these challenges ‘is the diversity of differing professional areas with which I interact’, he notes ‘something that has allowed me to gain knowledge of other fields and acquire tools that facilitate judicially-innovative solutions to the demands of these other areas’.