Firms With Offices Across Spain Have An Advantage

Orange faces a consistent flow of litigation and therefore favours external firms with branch offices across Spain, says legal commercial general counsel Antonio García Martínez

French mobile and internet service operator Orange completed its 100 per cent takeover of Spain's Jazztel in August of last year, in a transaction totalling €3.4 billion. Orange was advised by Jones Day on the deal. "The transaction will allow Orange España and Jazztel to jointly build the most dynamic carrier in the Spanish market," the Paris-based company said at the time. Orange expects to save around €1.8 million as a result of the synergy of the two companies in the Spanish market. The Spanish arm of the French carrier now has more than 19 million customers, including one million customers on fibre networks and more than six million on 4G.