GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Global-wide
Claudia Junker of Deutsche Telekom AG
Claudia Junker is no stranger to multijurisdictional and technically complex regulatory and commercial issues, having spent almost ten years at the helm of the legal department of Europe’s largest telecommunications provider, Deutsche Telekom. She takes charge of a team of over 200 lawyers and advises the business across a broad spectrum of litigation, intellectual property and wider corporate law matters. She and her team have also attained a strong grounding in international transactional mandates, having overseen the GBP12.5 billion sale of EE to BT Group in 2015 and the proposed USD26 billion takeover of Sprint by its T-Mobile subsidiary, with both transactions the subject of intense scrutiny by market regulators. Junker arrived at Deutsche Telekom in 2010 after a number of years in private practice at Hengeler Mueller and Ashurst, where she advised Deutsche Bank and an array of other leading businesses on corporate and commercial law issues.