About

Leading Spanish audio-visual company Secuoya Grupo de Comunicación produces TV channel content for its clients and has experienced rapid growth in the last few years. Carlos López Martín de Blas joined Secuoya in 2010 as general counsel, and later established the legal team. Senior legal counsel Jorge Sánchez Sánchez joined in 2012 and has demonstrated expert skills in intellectual property and contracts whilst acting as the main legal adviser in the corporate and business area. Between 2012 and 2014, the team played a major role in Secuoya’s acquisitions of several media companies, in Spain and abroad. Today, the acquired assets represent core business areas for the Group. The team was also involved on a restructuring that included a pioneering transaction on the alternative equity market. The transaction was structured as a partial spin-off to avoid its inherent potential commercial conflicts of interest within other core business areas of the Group. In one of its most successful recent activities, the team led the start of a new business model, being the first Spanish media company to participate in the management of a public television channel. Having obtained this responsibility through the award of a public tender for the indirect management of 7RM Television de Murcia, in 2015, Angela de la Cruz joined the team as head of the legal team for the channel. Her main objectives were to develop the data protection and compliance areas, which has now been completed and implemented. As a mark of her success, Secuoya became the first company in the sector to implement the corporate defence strategy. Around the same time as her arrival, Javier Bermudez de Castro joined the team as a supporting lawyer in the main offices to further enhance the team’s prowess in intellectual property and entertainment law. The expertise of the team has meant they have been involved ‘a complex financial operation within the group, which was planned, developed and led by the legal team’, as well as several share increases that are key operations in the development of the Group’s activities. One of their most significant work streams relates to the establishing “media for equity” operations, which consists of an alternative investment where media companies trade advertising spaces to get equity from start-up companies, allowing risk diversification for its newly established clients.