Pilar Galeote

Expert in Strategic Alliances and Legal Negotiation, Pilar Galeote combines a broad business and teaching experience. She was member of the Legal Counsel Department of Telefónica Intercontinental where she worked in UMTS contracts. Prior to that, Pilar worked at Clifford Chance in the Corporate Law department; she specialized in aspects related to the negotiation of the mergers and acquisitions process.

She wrote her doctoral thesis on a subject which combined her two fields of knowledge: Corporate Law and Negotiation. Her thesis subject was Voting Agreements as control mechanisms in joint corporations; subject of corporate law which is related to parties who may negotiate agreements. Prof. Galeote says that “the lawyer should know not only substantive law but the necessary skills to make impact in the other parties involved”

Since 1999, she teaches Negotiation and Corporate Law in different Master Programs at IE Business School, Law School and IE University. She also teaches Programs and Top Management Programs in Executive Education. Prof. Galeote is also the Director of the Cervelló Chair where a Law annual Prize is announced with a double objective: both legal research and social purpose.

Prof. Galeote has received “The best Professor Award” of IE Law School several years.

Education

• MAJ (LLM) IE Law School (1999 — 1999)
• Law & Economics Universidad CEU San Pablo (1992 — 1998)
• EXECUTIVE EDUCATION Harvard Law School (2018)

Companies

• Director Cátedra José María Cervelló IE Law School (2010)
• Professor of Corporate Law IE Law School (2005)
• Professor of Negotiation IE Law School (2002)
• Professor of Negotiation IE Business School (2002)
• Associate Director Negotiation and Mediation Center IE Business School (2002 — 2021)
• Lawyer, Corporate Law CLIFFORD CHANCE (2000 — 2002)
• Lawyer, TELEFONICA INTERCONTINENTAL Telefónica (1999 — 2000)

Skills

• Management Consulting
• International Law
• Legal Advice

Other

Mergers, Team Leadership, English, Spanish, Estrategia empresarial, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business Strategy, Joint Ventures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mediation, Corporate Law, Negotiation