About
JORGE KARGL IS A PARTNER IN THE FIRM'S MEXICO CITY OFFICE AND A MEMBER OF THE ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION, AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY (TMT) PRACTICES.
Jorge represents clients across all industries, with particular depth in the TMT sector, in merger control filings, investigations, and leniency applications before the National Antitrust Commission (CNA), as well as in constitutional appeals (amparo) before Federal Courts. In the TMT sector, he assists clients in the telecoms, broadcasting, satellite, entertainment, automotive, e-commerce, and OTT industries regarding Mexican laws, regulations, and authorizations and administrative proceedings with the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (CRT).
His representative experience includes advising AT&T in its acquisitions of DIRECTV, Nextel Mexico, and Time Warner, as well as in its sale of WarnerMedia to Discovery Networks and in its subsequent acquisition by Paramount Skydance; Amazon in an investigation into barriers to competition and essential facilities in e-commerce conducted by the former Mexican Competition Commission; Intelsat in its merger with SES; Live Nation Entertainment in its acquisition of control over OCESA; and Canadian Pacific Railway in its acquisition of Kansas City Southern. He participated in all court precedents in Mexico involving a jurisdictional conflict between the former Competition Commission and the former Federal Institute of Telecommunications and represented a foreign airline in a landmark amparo action against COFECE's first application of the essential facilities doctrine in Mexico.
Jorge is ranked in competition and antitrust by Chambers and Partners, Who's Who Legal, Legal 500, Global Competition Review (GCR), Euromoney's Legal Media Guides, and Best Lawyers, and in TMT by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and Best Lawyers.
He obtained his law degree with honours from Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey in 2006, an LL.M. in Public Law with honours from Universidad Anáhuac in 2013, and an LL.M. in Information Technology Law from INFOTEC in 2018. He also completed post-graduate studies in economics and competition law at Universidad Iberoamericana and a post-graduate diploma in Economic Regulation from the Mexican Federal Commission of Regulatory Improvement (COFEMER). During 2015 and 2016, he worked as an associate in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP's antitrust, competition and trade practice group in Brussels, Belgium. He is a member of the Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa (ANADE) and the international legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi (Salinas Martínez Chapter).