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Jáuregui y Navarrete, S.C. has extensive experience in the telecommunications, technology & media practice areas resulting from years of rendering of services to their clients in such fields as mobile and fixed local telephone services, radio broadcast, over-the-air, cable and DTH television broadcast, satellite services, dark and lit fiber optic, paging, value added services, tower and antenna rights, arbitration, number portability and others. The Firm has participated in all public spectrum auctions for the allocation of frequencies, public telecommunications networks and other telecommunications concessions and has advised sundry non-regulated service providers to the telecommunications industry. They have worked closely with the communications regulatory authorities in the implementation of a multitude of projects and have acted as advisors to such authorities from time to time.
Jáuregui y Navarrete, S.C. has acted as external legal counsel in the successful launch and implementation of the portability system of telephone numbers in Mexico, which is the first in Latin America and recently in the negotiations carried out between the two largest and most powerful telecommunications groups in Mexico resulting in the acquisition of a significant participation in the capital stock of the second most important Mexican mobile carrier. The Firm also participates in the negotiation and implementation of the technology platform, clearinghouse and roaming agreements entered into by its clients with word class players, including IBM and Syniverse. During 2010, the Firm assisted its clients in the acquisition of the First Division Soccer League “Jaguares”.
The Firm’s telecommunications financing practice is among the most sophisticated in Mexico. They have actively participated in financing of public networks and telecommunications project finance at large, representing a wide variety of financial institutions, concessionaires and telecommunication service providers, including the implementation of the first security interest of fiber optic in Mexico.
Mr. Mauricio Martínez González, Attorney at Law (Escuela Libre de Derecho, 1994,) LL.M. in International Economic Law, specialising in Telecommunications, 2001, (The University of Warwick, UK), leads the telecommunications, technology and media practice within the Firm. Mr. Martínez González has more than 14 years of experience in telecommunications law and extensive practice and specialization in securities, corporate finance, project finance, M&A, foreign investment, antitrust, reorganizations, workouts and bankruptcy. Mr. Martínez acted as leading external legal counsel for Telcordia Technologies Mexico, current data base administrator for number portability in Mexico, first in Latin America, and has participated in spectrum frequency auctions in Mexico since 1998. Mr. Martínez has represented international telecommunications clients, including, TV Azteca, the largest Spanish content producer in the world, Inmarsat, Telcordia, Iusacell, Google, Unefón, Mobil@ccess, DarkNet Communications Corp., MoviTV and others. He is fluent in English and Spanish.
