Jaime Rodriguez

Mr. Jaime Rodriguez is of Counsel in Garcia Hernández Sawhney, LLP’s Los Angeles Area Office. Jaime specializes in media, corporate, and transactional law, having served as an in-house legal executive for almost 20 years at Univision and NBCUniversal following several years of working at large international law firms in Los Angeles. Jaime has a strong record of creating significant deal value for his clients throughout his career. His strengths include the ability to envision value opportunities, engage internal/external constituencies, and actualize the partnership/deal (negotiate, paper and close).

His practice has spanned feature film and TV series development and production, co-productions, rights acquisitions, director/writer/producer agreements, domestic and global content distribution on all types of platforms, film financing, studio joint ventures, FCC and other regulatory matters. Jaime has also worked on a variety of complex corporate and financing transactions including investments involving private equity and venture funds, start-up company operations including intellectual property management and union and guild matters, M&A deals, project financings for infrastructure projects worldwide including in Mexico, Chile and the United States, and international real estate transactions.

Most recently, Jaime has been working as General Counsel of an independent studio focused on four quadrant animated and hybrid animated feature films. The studio develops and produces projects involving well-known video games, entertainment, and consumer product brands. His responsibilities include overseeing all business and legal affairs as well as corporate operations and human resources. Before that, Jaime spent over 10 years at NBCUniversal where he worked as a business and legal affairs executive for the global distribution group for which he played a leading role in the negotiation of the first major studio global SVOD license. He also supported the NBCUniversal TV and Streaming group for which he helped develop several TV series for the Peacock service and Telemundo studios. Before that, he was senior legal and distribution executive at Univision Communications where he spent 5 years with the domestic distribution group.

Jaime also has a track record of supporting important non-profits in the entertainment and legal fields having served on the boards of California Rural Legal Assistance, and the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications. He also represented NBCUniversal in its support of the Mexican American Bar Foundation which provides scholarships to law students.

Jaime is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School. He is fluent in Spanish and proficient in German. He proudly grew up in the Mount Washington area of Los Angeles and now lives in South Pasadena with his wife and three kids.