Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions

Jorge Cervantes has extensive experience providing legal and business advice and counselling to multinational and Mexican companies in all kinds of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. His work encompasses joint ventures, strategic alliances, negotiated acquisitions, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, privatisations, corporate restructurings, cross-border financing, divestitures, sales and purchases of all kinds of assets, stock, equities and equity-type securities. Mr Cervantes is also active in advising foreign and domestic clients in all corporate, transactional and regulatory aspects of buying, selling or combining companies and businesses across regulated and unregulated industries. His experience in M&A transactions includes privatisations of public entities, international public bids and working with entities of the Mexican government in diverse strategic projects. Mr Cervantes' advice also covers antitrust, project financing and general commercial legal issues.

Representative clients with which Mr Cervantes has worked include Banorte, LaSalle Investment Management, AMB Property Mexico, Iridium Satellite, DIRECTV Group, American Standard, Sun Capital Partners, Navistar Financial, ExxonMobil, WalMart, Weatherford International, News Corporation, Fox Interactive Media, Miditel, Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, XM Sirius, etc.

Mr Cervantes is recognised in Chambers Global 2010 as part of a select group of lawyers featured as 'Leaders in their Field' in the areas of corporate and M&A work. He has been frequently listed and recognised by different specialised publications like Chambers, Who's Who Legal, Global Competition Review, Latin Lawyer and others. Latin Lawyer Magazine named him one of the 40 leading business lawyers in Mexico under 40. Mr Cervantes has published widely in his areas of specialisation.

Mr Cervantes obtained his law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico and a Masters of Law degree from the Georgetown University Law School in Washington, DC. He worked as a foreign associate in New York City-based international law firm.

Biography: Regulatory Communications

Jorge Cervantes has extensive experience providing legal and business advice and counselling to multinational and Mexican companies in all areas of telecommunications including fixed, mobile and satellite-based services, DTH, MMDS and cable television, value added services, ISP's and radio and television broadcasting. His work encompasses regulatory and competition law, corporate transactions, M&A, joint ventures and start-ups, project financing and general commercial legal issues.

Mr Cervantes assists clients in all kinds of matters involving structuring of foreign investment projects in Mexican regulated telecommunication entities, mergers and acquisitions of telecommunication service providers, private equity and debt offerings in Mexico and abroad, regulatory issues and financing of telecommunication projects, obtaining all kinds of licences, authorisations or concessions to provide regulated services, proceedings before the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT) and telecom regulator COFETEL, the General Bureau of Foreign Investment and the antitrust regulator COFECO, multi-jurisdictional projects, communications contracts and vendor financing arrangements, among others.

Representative telecom clients with which Mr Cervantes has worked include DIRECTV Group, News Corporation, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, Hughes, Comsat, Lockheed Martin, Iridium Satellite, Miditel, Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, XM Sirius, Qualcomm, CNR, etc. Mr Cervantes is the secretary or member of the board of several telecommunication companies, including Innova, which is the largest DTH satellite pay-TV service provider in Mexico under its trademark "SKY".

Mr Cervantes is recognised in Chambers Global 2010 as part of a select group of lawyers featured as "leaders in their field" in the areas of corporate and M&A work. He has been frequently listed and recognised by different specialised publications such as Chambers, Who's Who Legal, Global Competition Review, Latin Lawyer and others. Latin Lawyer Magazine named him one of the 40-leading business lawyers in Mexico under 40. Mr Cervantes has published widely in his areas of specialisation.

Mr Cervantes obtained his law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City and a Masters of Law degree from the Georgetown University Law School in Washington, DC. Prior to joining González Calvillo, he worked as a foreign associate in a New York-based international law firm.

Biography: Real Estate

Jorge Cervantes has extensive experience providing legal and business advice and counselling to multinational and Mexican companies in all areas of telecommunications including fixed, mobile and satellite-based services, DTH, MMDS and cable television, value added services, ISP's and radio and television broadcasting. His work encompasses regulatory and competition law, corporate transactions, M&A, joint ventures and start-ups, project financing and general commercial legal issues.

Mr Cervantes assists clients in all kinds of matters involving structuring of foreign investment projects in Mexican regulated telecommunication entities, mergers and acquisitions of telecommunication service providers, private equity and debt offerings in Mexico and abroad, regulatory issues and financing of telecommunication projects, obtaining all kinds of licences, authorisations or concessions to provide regulated services, proceedings before the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT) and telecom regulator COFETEL, the General Bureau of Foreign Investment and the antitrust regulator COFECO, multi-jurisdictional projects, communications contracts and vendor financing arrangements, among others.

Representative telecom clients with which Mr Cervantes has worked include DIRECTV Group, News Corporation, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, Hughes, Comsat, Lockheed Martin, Iridium Satellite, Miditel, Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, XM Sirius, Qualcomm, CNR, etc. Mr Cervantes is the secretary or member of the board of several telecommunication companies, including Innova, which is the largest DTH satellite pay-TV service provider in Mexico under its trademark "SKY".

Mr Cervantes is recognised in Chambers Global 2010 as part of a select group of lawyers featured as "Leaders in their Field" in the areas of corporate and M&A work. He has been frequently listed and recognised by different specialised publications like Chambers, Who's Who Legal, Global Competition Review, Latin Lawyer and others. Latin Lawyer Magazine named him one of the 40 leading business lawyers in Mexico under 40. Mr Cervantes has published widely in his areas of specialisation.

Mr Cervantes obtained his law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City and a Masters of Law degree from the Georgetown University Law School in Washington, DC. Prior to joining González Calvillo, he worked as a foreign associate in a New York-based international law firm.

Biography: Project Finance

Jorge Cervantes has extensive experience providing legal and business advice and counselling to multinational and Mexican companies in all kinds of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. His work encompasses joint ventures, strategic alliances, negotiated acquisitions, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, privatisations, corporate restructurings, cross-border financing, divestitures, sales and purchases of all kinds of assets, stock, equities and equity-type securities. Mr Cervantes is also active in advising foreign and domestic clients in all corporate, transactional and regulatory aspects of buying, selling or combining companies and businesses across regulated and unregulated industries. His experience in M&A transactions includes privatisations of public entities, international public bids and working with entities of the Mexican government in diverse strategic projects. Mr Cervantes' advice also covers antitrust, project financing and general commercial legal issues.

Representative clients with which Mr Cervantes has worked include Banorte, LaSalle Investment Management, AMB Property Mexico, Iridium Satellite, DIRECTV Group, American Standard, Sun Capital Partners, Navistar Financial, ExxonMobil, WalMart, Weatherford International, News Corporation, Fox Interactive Media, Miditel, Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, XM Sirius, etc.

Mr Cervantes is recognised in Chambers Global 2010 as part of a select group of lawyers featured as 'Leaders in their Field' in the areas of corporate and M&A work. He has been frequently listed and recognised by different specialised publications like Chambers, Who's Who Legal, Global Competition Review, Latin Lawyer and others. Latin Lawyer Magazine named him one of the 40 leading business lawyers in Mexico under 40. Mr Cervantes has published widely in his areas of specialisation.

Mr Cervantes obtained his law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico and a Masters of Law degree from the Georgetown University Law School in Washington, DC. He worked as a foreign associate in New York City-based international law firm.