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About
Provided by Jorge Kargl
Practice Areas
Antitrust and Competition, Telecommunications, Media and Technology.
Career
Jorge specializes in the areas of antitrust and competition and in telecommunications, media and technology (TMT). He regularly represents clients in all industries, especially in TMT, in merger control filings, investigations and leniency applications before both the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT) and the Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE), as well as in constitutional appeals (amparo) before Federal Courts.
In the TMT sector, he regularly assists clients in the telecom, broadcasting, satellite, entertainment, automotive, e-commerce and OTT industries regarding Mexican laws, regulations and authorizations.
Jorge has worked in some of the most innovative, high-profile and complex cases in Mexico, including advising AT&T in its acquisitions of DIRECTV, Nextel Mexico and Time Warner; advising Nokia Corporation and Alcatel-Lucent in Nokia’s acquisition of the latter; advising CommScope and ARRIS in CommsScope’s acquisition of ARRIS; advising Live Nation Entertainment in its acquisition of control over OCESA; advising Canadian Pacific Railway in its acquisition of Kansas City Southern; he has been involved in all court precedents in Mexico involving a jurisdictional conflict between COFECE and the IFT; and he successfully represented a foreign airline in a landmark amparo action against COFECE’s first-ever application of the essential facilities doctrine in Mexico.
Jorge is ranked as an expert in the field of competition and antitrust by Chambers and Partners, Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500, Global Competition Review (GCR), Euromoney’s Legal Media Guides and Best Lawyers, and in TMT by The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers. In 2019, Who’s Who Legal named him Latin America’s “Most Highly Regarded” non-partner in the field of competition, describing him as a “very clever, very diligent lawyer” who is “great on merger control remedies”.
During 2015 and 2016, Jorge worked as an associate in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP’s antitrust, competition and trade practice group in Brussels, Belgium.
Professional Memberships
He is a member of the Mexico’s Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa (ANADE) and international legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi.
Personal
He received his law degree (JD) with honours from the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey in 2006, a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in Public Law with honours from Mexico City’s Universidad Anahuac in 2013, and a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in Information Technology Law from Mexico City’s INFOTEC in 2018. He has also taken post-graduate studies in economics and competition law at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and has a post-graduate diploma in Economic Regulation from the Mexican Federal Commission of Regulatory Improvement.
Chambers Review
Latin America
Partner Jorge Kargl continues to obtain recognition for his activity in the Mexican antitrust arena.
Partner Jorge Kargl of Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez continues to receive key endorsement from clients and peers alike for his activity in the TMT space. He boasts experience advising clients from the telecoms and entertainment markets.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Jorge Kargl is a very creative lawyer. He is business-oriented and is very resourceful, guiding us through what we need to do."
"The level of detail in Jorge Kargl's work is unmatched. He has great project management skills and coordinates the team excellently."
"Jorge Kargl is a very creative lawyer. He is business-oriented and is very resourceful, guiding us through what we need to do."
"The level of detail in Jorge Kargl's work is unmatched. He has great project management skills and coordinates the team excellently."