Jorge León-Orantes

Practice Areas

Mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory and financing, TMT.

Career

With 30 years of professional experience providing corporate transactional advice to national and international companies in the automotive, financial, educational, technological and entertainment sectors, among others. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory and financing.

He is the Chairman of Santamarina + Steta.

Publications

He has written numerous articles which have been included in publications of The New York State Bar Association, The World Law Group, Law Business Research, European Mergers and Acquisitions Review, CNN, The Financier, El Financiero, El Sol de México, Chambers & Partners and Milenio Noticias, among others. Furthermore, he participates frequently in radio and television programs such as Imagen, Milenio Noticias and 690 AM Radio Station.

Personal

CONFERENCES

He has served as panelist and moderator of conferences in Mexico and abroad:

Minority and Majority Investments in the New York Private Equity Latin America Forum (Latin Markets),

Contrasting Transnational Investments in Mexico at the Hispanic National Bar Association meeting in Atlanta.

The Challenges of economic nationalism for German trade and investment in the US, Canada and Mexico, Stuttgart.

Cross Border Transactions, Changsha China, CCPIT International Commercial and Legal Cooperation Forum.

Impact of Blockchain in Mergers and Acquisitions, American Bar Association, Mexico City.

Blockchain, as the Machine Driving New Developments and Challenges in Smart Contracts, Cape Town, South Africa.

The Growing Importance of eCommerce and the Legal Implications Associated.

American Bar Association’s UCC International Commercial Law Subcommittee Meeting on the panel: Adjustments to Collateral Perfection Techniques in light of COVID.