TMT deals with changing technologies, fast-paced markets and evolving regulations. Clients need legal advisors that understand these industries and know how they are developing.
Leading global suppliers and customers depend on the commercial and innovative advice of our team of specialist TMT lawyers across Linklaters' global 'offices. As well as advising on commercial contracts, the firm helps clients to develop strategies and programmes for managing legal and regulatory risk across multiple jurisdictions.
Linklaters’ global TMT practice is broad and deals with all aspects of major technology contracts, outsourcing and offshoring, information management compliance and data protection, e-business and IT security, telecoms and media. The firm’s reputation for handling TMT disputes is also outstanding.
The firm was nominated for TMT Team of the year in both 2008 and 2009 by Legal Business, and TMT deal of the year in 2008 by The Lawyer. The TMT practice is top ranked by a number of third party guides for its expertise in a number of jurisdictions. A number of its partners are also recognised as industry leading advisors.
The team produces a regular international newsletter on technology issues, and speaks widely at conferences and seminars. In addition, Linklaters produces an annual comprehensive summary of European data protection legislation regimes in all EU member states and additional EEA territories, as well as reports on the level of enforcement activity and imposed sanctions. The report is available online here.
Recent TMT transactions include advising
- the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) on the early ending of its contract with ETS Europe for the provision of national curriculum test operations
- SES Astra on the establishment of the infrastructure for its German digital satellite platform
- on proceedings issued by Centrica against Accenture for a £128 million contract dispute claim
- Monitise on its joint venture with Metavante to establish a mobile banking payments platform in the United States
- Vodafone on its U.S.$11.1 billion acquisition of Hutchison Essar, one of India’s three largest mobile operators
- BT’s on its £750 million outsourcing of fixed line, broadband, VoIP and converged services to the Post Office
- Unisys in a dispute with the Belgian Ministry of Justice concerning the computerisation of the Belgian court system, after the ministry terminated the software agreement it held with Unisys
- China Netcom on its U.S.$23.8 billion merger with China Unicom by way of a scheme of arrangement
