Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C.

Telecommunications, Antitrust and Competition

Partner

Mr. Kargl 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.

Mr. Kargl 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.

Mr. Kargl 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.

Spanish and English

Mr. Kargl is a member of the Mexico’s Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa (ANADE) and international legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi (Salinas Martínez Chapter).

Mr. Kargl 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.