Mr Jorge Oria y Anaya > Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C. > Mexico City, Mexico > Lawyer Profile

Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C.
Av. Pedregal 24, 10th floor
Molino del Rey
11040, Mexico City
Mexico

Work Department

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Banking and Finance, Energy and Infrastructure Projects, Mergers and Acquisitions

Position

Partner

Career

Jorge Oria joined the firm in 1999 and has been a partner since 2014. He has gained significant experience over the past 20 years in energy, infrastructure and power transactions. He also has experience in acquisition and equipment finance, and arbitration in relation to energy and infrastructure projects.

Jorge’s practice focuses on representing sponsors, off-takers and local, multilateral and regional lenders as well as equity and mezzanine investors in transactions within the power (renewable and conventional), oil and gas, transportation and water industries.

He worked as a foreign associate at Milbank in New York (2007).

Languages

Spanish, English

Education

Master of Laws specialized in International Business Law with honors, British Chevening Scholar – London School of Economics and Political Science (2006)

Law degree, Universidad Panamericana (2002)

Lawyer Rankings

Mexico > Energy and natural resources

There is a strong projects focus to Ritch, Mueller y Nicolau, S.C.’s energy sector offering and the team is a highly respected name when it comes to financing and development mandates. Clients include the sponsors of major energy projects in Mexico, as well as senior and mezzanine lenders in financings and the guarantors, credit support entities and other investors in energy sector M&A. Federico Santacruz González and Jorge Oria y Anaya jointly lead the practice group, both drawing on considerable experience in domestic projects work, particularly on the transactional and financing sides. For project finance transactions in the electricity space, Asaf Jiménez Adorno is a key contact; while at associate level, Marco Portillo supports the partners and is developing a strong regulatory and compliance practice in the sector.