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The Powell Continental Group is an exclusive legal members’ club, offering global presence, absolute confidentiality, and unparalleled access to elite international circles.
Partner
Corporate lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and entertainment law, with extensive experience handling high-profile deals and media-for-equity investments, delivering strategic legal guidance to diverse clients.
Jorge Martínez y López is a lawyer primarily trained in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, media for equity (venture capital), compliance and entertainment. He studied law at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, completed a corporate diploma at his alma mater and spent a semester at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. Jorge joined Basham, Ringe y Correa in Mexico City as an associate lawyer. After leaving the firm, he joined Grupo Kuo, an industrial conglomerate with operations in the automotive, consumer and chemical sectors. He then moved to Grupo Televisa, where he worked on, among other transactions, the sale of Televisa’s equity participation in Ocesa to Live Nation Entertainment. He also participated in several venture capital investments in high-growth companies through a media-for-equity model, boosting their growth by strengthening positioning and brand awareness.
After the merger of Televisa’s media, content and production assets with Univision—creating Televisa Univision—Jorge assumed the role of Entertainment Head Counsel, responsible for the legal aspects of multiple productions. Since leaving Televisa Univision, he has become a partner at the boutique law firm The Powell Continental Group.