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Aaron is head of our telecommunications sector globally. He has significant expertise of the telecommunications and technology sectors, having spent 19 years advising clients in these sectors internationally.

Aaron’s practice focuses on advising private and publicly traded companies, private capital sponsors, venture capital investors and high growth tech-enabled companies on M&A transactions, joint ventures, spinoffs, minority investments, corporate restructurings, projects and other corporate transactions. He has particular expertise in digital infrastructure transactions.

Background

Aaron is dual qualified in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Experience & expertise

Selected matters

  • AustralianSuper on its $2.5 billion deal with DigitalBridge Group to acquire a significant minority stake in Vantage Data Centers EMEA
  • Stonepeak on its acquisition of a 49% interest in Cellnex’s Sweden and Denmark mobile towers business for EUR 730 million
  • QIC on its acquisition of a 50% stake in Vector Metering, a NZ$2.5bn smart-metering business operating across Australia and New Zealand
  • GIC on its acquisition of a 30% stake in telecommunications infrastructure provider CETIN Group
  • OneWeb on its merger with Eutelsat in an all-share transaction
  • Bharti Global Limited on the acquisition of the OneWeb LEO satellite business
  • a private capital investor on its proposed acquisition of a majority interest in Spark New Zealand’s mobile towers business
  • a consortium on its proposed acquisition of Australian Tower Network, the Australian mobile infrastructure business of Singtel Optus
  • IHS Towers on its US$400m acquisition mobile infrastructure in South Africa from MTN SA
  • I Squared Capital on its acquisition of Hutchison Telecommunications’ fixed line business
  • Australia’s National Broadband Network on its the A$11bn acquisition of Telstra's national copper and HFC networks and Optus' national HFC network