Linklaters' global TMT group advises on all regulatory and commercial aspects of the telecommunications industry, including aspects of voice and data carriage and the mobile, cable, satellite and internet access sub-markets.
Linklaters’ global TMT group advises on all regulatory and commercial aspects of the telecommunications industry, including aspects of voice and data carriage and the mobile, cable, satellite and internet access sub-markets.
Major global telecoms companies and their banks and advisors depend on the TMT group’s transactional expertise on flotations, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, financings and disputes. The group also negotiates and concludes agreements on telecommunications infrastructure and applications, interconnection arrangements as well as advising on the most complex domestic and international regulatory and anti-trust issues in the telecoms sector.
Recent telecoms transactions include advising
- Vodafone on its U.S.$11.1 billion acquisition of Hutchison Essar, one of India’s three largest mobile operators
- China Netcom on its U.S.$23.8 billion merger with China Unicom by way of a scheme of arrangement
- BT Global Services on its largest international networked information technology deals, including those with Reuters, Unilever, Bristol Myers and the UK Post Office
- Celtel on the acquisition of its pan African telecoms business by Zain
- Harbinger Capital on the proposed acquisition of the global satellite business of Inmarsat plc
- Tecom Investments FZ LLC and DIG on the US$2.2bn acquisition of a 35% stake in the state-owned Tunisian telecom operator Tunisie Telecom
- Etisalat on numerous licence acquisitions throughout the Middle East and Africa
