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Mr Octavio Lecona
Work Department
Technology, Media and Telecommunications | Corporate and Merger & Acquisitions
Position
Partner
Career
Octavio Lecona is a partner in Holland & Knight’s Mexico City office, where he focuses his practice on telecommunications, media and technology, as well as mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He provides legal advice to domestic and multinational clients on regulatory, litigation and corporate matters. Mr. Lecona has drafted, negotiated and completed high-profile transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and a wide range of general contractual matters. He has represented fixed and mobile facility-based carriers and advised in spectrum auctions.
Mr. Lecona’s clients in the telecommunications and technology industry include fixed and mobile services providers, fiber optics network developers, data centers operators, manufacturers of mobile telephone accessories, resellers of telecommunications services, and owners and operators of wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure. He focuses on providing regulatory advice drawing on his extensive knowledge of the regulatory body in Mexico. Mr. Lecona has handled submitting and attaining license applications, administrative proceedings before the telecom regulator and appeals before courts hearing telecom and antitrust matters, and drafting and negotiating agreements with major carriers, including indefeasible right of use (IRUs), services, construction and purchase agreements. In addition, Mr. Lecona is co-leading an ongoing investment arbitration proceeding for one of the largest worldwide satellite operators against the Mexican government.
Mr. Lecona also represents the business in Mexico of one of the major film studios in connection with media content, copyright and distribution of pictures for theatrical exhibition. On the technology side, he has been involved in worldwide regulatory analysis of business initiatives from leading technology companies, cloud services providers, and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity service providers. Mr. Lecona has been active on issues involving digital services, e-commerce, data protection and privacy, and emerging technology matters.
Mr. Lecona is a former in-house counsel for a Spanish multinational broadband and telecommunications provider, as well as legal counsel to two former commissioners of the Federal Commission of Telecommunication, the former telecommunications regulator in Mexico.
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., International Legal Studies
- Universidad de las Americas Puebla, J.D., cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
Mexico > TMT
Holland & Knight LLP’s multinational client base includes a host of blue chip companies across the TMT sectors. The team is regularly sought out for its financial and regulatory assistance with telecommunications projects, including M&A, restructuring processes and high-profile litigation. The practice is jointly led by Luis Rubio, who has a niche speciality in dispute resolution relating to NAFTA; and Octavio Lecona, whose broad practice includes media distribution matters and tech regulatory analysis.
Mexico > Corporate and M&A
Following the 2022 tie-up with the former Thompson & Knight, Holland & Knight has further demonstrated its commitment to the Latin America market – and México in particular – with the April-2023 incorporation of a sizeable multidisciplinary group (seven partners, two senior counsels and eight associates) from local firm Sánchez Devanny. As specifically regards the corporate/M&A practice, this included former practice co-head Francisco Andrés Gámez Garza, along with Humberto Morales Barrón, Jaime Israel Moreno Treviño and Oscar Quiróz Chávez, all of whom joined the firm’s Monterrey office. They join a department led by Mexico managing partner Luis Rubio (a well-known market figure who has particular expertise in the TMT segment), which is highlighted for its ‘vast knowledge and experience with respect to Mexican Law but also in complex international transactions’. Octavio Lecona (‘knowledgeable’, ‘a rounded professional’) provides additional expertise in the telecoms and tech areas as part of a broader practice that takes in M&A, joint ventures, corporate restructuring and contractual matters. Corporate partner Xavier Magnino and senior counsel Elena Ibarrola are further names to note in the Mexico City office (both having arrived from DLA Piper Mexico in March 2022), as is Selene Espinosa who was promoted to partner in January 2023; of counsel Alejandro F Sánchez Mújica and partner Alejandro A Sánchez Mújica A are, in turn, additional names to note in the Monterrey office. Recent matters include mandates in the aviation, shipping, financial services, technology & telecoms, industrial & manufacturing, and oil & gas sectors, among others.