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The Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sectors are experiencing significant change at the moment; creating great opportunities and posing equally great challenges. 

Few other industry sectors are as fluid, and few have the capacity to change businesses – or indeed society – as quickly or profoundly. The last few years have seen waves of disruptive technologies emerging, and that will continue. At the same time we expect the relentless digitisation of traditional industry sectors and business types to continue to give rise to fundamental changes in old markets, and re-write the rules on how businesses think and operate, and how they are put together. 

We are helping our clients on this odyssey. We are helping them to frame their opportunities, and we are helping them to navigate through the challenges. We are there with our clients when they are engaging in their most complex, market-defining, 'first of a kind' deals, and when they are managing their most difficult, unexpected, ‘first of a kind' challenges.

Our clients are engaging with all of these developments; looking for the opportunities, and dealing with the risks. They are asking themselves questions such as:

  • What are the right models to adopt?
  • What doesn’t work anymore?
  • Is our market changing under us, and if so how do we deal with that?
  • Where will the next wave of competitors come from?
  • How do you deal with the piecemeal regulation that is springing up to belatedly deal with all of the changes that are happening?
  • How do we change from within whilst keeping our core business running smoothly?

With unrivaled expertise and extensive resources across the globe in these sectors, we are able to provide practical, informed, sensible solutions. Our sector expertise is backed by strong practice expertise, including our award winning transactional, regulatory and disputes teams.

These sectors are giving rise to great opportunities and great challenges: we are there with you.

Experience

Capita

Advising in relation to contract arrangements for a new IT platform and business process outsourcing services to support the provision of mortgage operations and mortgage origination services to a major UK bank servicing more than 250,000 mortgage customers and £23 billion of lending

Yahoo! JAPAN

Advising in respect of their joint venture investment with Skyscanner Ltd for the provision of web-based (including mobile) travel information and travel search engine services in Japan

XL Axiata

Advising one of the largest mobile operators in Indonesia and a subsidiary of Axiata, on its telecoms network joint venture with Indosat, one of the other largest mobile operators in Indonesia

Fairfax Media

Advising on its initial acquisition, and subsequent sale, of online holiday accommodation business Stayz, to HomeAway

Seven Group Holdings

Advising on their media merger with West Australian Newspapers to create Seven West Media, and advised Seven West Media on several acquisitions, joint ventures, content deals and new media deals

SoftBank

Advised SoftBank on its  US$250 million investment in GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd, the largest mobile taxi booking app provider in Southeast Asia, as well as advising them on its US$100 million investment in Indonesian online marketplace Tokopedia

TechQuake

The shock of the new

Key contacts

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Veronica Roberts

Partner, UK Regional Head of Practice, Competition, Regulation and Trade, London

Veronica Roberts
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Kwok Tang

Partner, Sydney

Kwok Tang
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Stephen Wilkinson

Partner, London

Stephen Wilkinson
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Rebecca Maslen-Stannage

Chair and Senior Partner, Sydney

Rebecca Maslen-Stannage
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Graeme Preston

Managing Partner, Asia, Tokyo

Graeme Preston
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Alexandra Neri

Partner, Paris

Alexandra Neri
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Nick Pantlin

Partner, Head of TMT & Digital UK & Europe, London

Nick Pantlin
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Julian Lincoln

Partner, Head of TMT & Digital Australia, Melbourne

Julian Lincoln