About

Before joining worldwide telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent, Elizabeth Chicuellar Casillas’ legal career was spent at other leading companies in the sector such as Motorola and Telefónica Moviles México, acquiring strong negotiation skills and business acumen in the process. In her first four years at Alcatel-Lucent México, Chicuellar Casillas was the legal manager in charge of the corporate department for Mexico, subsequently adding the Caribbean and Central America regions to her remit. After a brief spell in the US-arm of the business acting as a contract manager, she returned to her legal manager role in Mexico, where she also became responsible for the commercial matters of the region. Chicuellar Casillas has been instrumental in developing the legal department within the commercial team, saying ‘I made them see legal as part of their team. They now know we are there to support the team in the negotiation and are not just part of the process’. Chicuellar Casillas supported Alcatel in the $13.4bn merger with Lucent in 2006, as at the time she was in charge of mergers and the corporate restructure for the 19 countries in her region. Other big achievements for Chicuellar Casillas have been collaborating in recent negotiations of frame agreements with key Mexican customers, and the restructuring of the legal entities with a particular focus on efficiency and resource saving to facilitate company goals. Following the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent by Nokia in January 2016 for $17bn, Chicuellar Casillas has maintained her role as legal manager and will focus on corporate and commercial aspects within the merged company.