With an integrated, global approach, our Telecommunications team provides strategic advantage to every client. We combine attorneys from every practice group, and every office, to seamlessly work together on all aspects of domestic and cross-border telecommunications transactions, including financings, mergers & acquisitions, corporate representations, restructurings and regulatory, licensing and market access matters.
With substantial experience across the entire spectrum of the telecom industry, our broad-based knowledge ranges from wireless, fixed-line telecom companies to submarine cable systems, satellite systems, data centers and media transactions.
Extensive industry experience helps us deliver unparalleled services, especially with difficult technical and commercial transactions. Some of our largest transaction work includes:
- Bharti Airtel Ltd.’s multi-billion-dollar acquisition financing
- Telmar’s groundbreaking billion-dollar series of bonds to finance a 3G network build out in Brazil
- LightSquared’s several billion-dollar debt funding and subsequent restructuring for its 4G network in the US
- Cambodia’s biggest cross-border deal in any industry—the purchase of CamGSM
- OneWeb on corporate, finance, commercial and regulatory aspects of a multi-billion dollar satellite constellation involving over 700 first generation low-earth orbit satellites providing global wireless Internet connectivity
- The underwriters in connection with the issuance of $3.5 billion in notes of special purpose entities owned by Sprint Corporation; the notes are secured by a portfolio of FCC spectrum licenses
- NetLink’s $2.3 billion IPO in Singapore
- Seaborn Networks on its debt and equity financing arrangements for the Seabras-1 cable project— the first direct point-to-point transoceanic subsea fiber optic cable system between New York and São Paulo, and also the first ever export credit agency supported project financing in this sector
