Linklaters advises Telenor Group and Vodafone Group on their strategic global procurement partnership

Linklaters has advised Telenor and Vodafone in establishing a strategic partnership between their respective procurement organisations, Telenor Procurement Company and Vodafone Procurement Company. This collaboration brings together two major operators with complementary footprints, collectively serving more than 550 million customers across 23 countries.

By combining their scale, expertise, and geographical strengths, the partnership will pool over €26 billion in annual procurement spend and is designed to drive competitiveness, efficiencies and innovation in procurement processes for the benefit of their significant complementary customer bases. 

The Linklaters team was led by Will Leslie, Annamaria Mangiaracina, Karolis Pocius, Marilena Nteve, and Anna Veispak.