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Telecommunications

Transactional

  • A global telecom company in connection with the sale and leaseback of telecom towers in Asia

  • An African telecoms infrastructure company on the acquisition and leaseback of portfolios of telecom towers in Ghana, Tanzania and the DRC, together with related equity investment and build-to-suit arrangements

  • An African telecoms infrastructure company on the acquisition and leaseback of a portfolio of telecom towers in Tanzania, together with the related equity investment and build-to-suit arrangements

  • A private equity investor on an equity line investment into a new platform for the development of data centers in emerging markets

  • A Middle Eastern mobile network operator on a proposed infrastructure sharing solution between its subsidiary entities and an African mobile network operator in respect of build-to-suit arrangements for new towers, master lease arrangements for the leasing of the new towers, and managed services arrangements for the management of the mobile network operator’s existing tower portfolio

  • A bidder in the auction for the acquisition of a portfolio of passive infrastructure assets in Europe from a major telecoms operator

  • A major US supplier on the acquisition of a leading technology firm which manufactures microchips for mobile devices, by way of a scheme of arrangement

  • A privately owned hedge fund sponsor on the acquisition of telecom tower asset infrastructure in Latin America

  • A private equity investor in connection with its acquisition of Multi-Links Telecommunications Limited, a fiber and CDMA telecommunications operator in Nigeria, from Telkom, a South African telecoms operator, and on its subsequent sale

  • A major European company on the financing of telecoms and related infrastructure in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

  • Investors in Indian mobile telephony market in connection with the sale of an interest in a joint venture to an acquirer on a dispute arising during such sale; represented the same party in dispute with the acquirer and third joint venture over right of first refusal arising from the latter’s sale which resulted in a substantial settlement in our client’s favor

  • A foreign investor in India’s 2G licensing round in connection with contractual and investor-state claims made under the relevant license and bilateral investment protection treaty resulting from the state’s cancellation post-award of 22 mobile telephony licenses and failure to refund license fees or pay compensation

  • A telecoms company to coordinate its response to interim relief applications brought against our client in Nigeria allegedly in support of arbitration proceedings pending against our client in South Africa

  • An international telecommunications carrier in its ICC arbitration in The Hague against a major Indian telecommunications entity; after an expedited hearing process, the Tribunal rendered an award on the merits in our client’s favor

  • A wireless technology company in patent infringement litigation involving wireless broadband technology

  • A major smartphone manufacturer in patent infringement litigation related to the following technologies: antenna technology, push technology, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), security technology and touchscreen technology

  • A major smartphone manufacturer in ITC litigation concerning memory chips and devices

  • A Fortune 50 telecommunications company in patent litigation relating to Ethernet computer networking technology, messaging technology and template-based web design