Telecommunications
Confidence and Strength
In the telecommunications industry, change is everywhere. It's in the technologies used. It's in the structure of the market. It's in the public policies that govern what you do.
Your success depends on how well you manage risks that abound in changing regulatory and compliance matters, and how you structure alliances and acquisitions, deal with new business models and protect your intellectual property. It depends on how you arrange financing. How you deal with employees. How you respond to new technologies and forms of competition.
At Baker & McKenzie, we provide the full scope of services sophisticated telecommunications clients expect, including advice on licensing and regulatory matters, sector-specific tax issues, labor law, competition and antitrust, data protection, contracts and insolvency. We work across the spectrum of industry players, from wireline operators and equipment manufacturers to satellite network and mobile virtual network providers to digital terrestrial broadcasters and media content providers.
How We Can Help
- Mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence, purchase and sale agreements, registration statements and offering memoranda, international joint venture and teaming agreements
- Banking and finance, including loans and credit facilities, securities, registration statements and offering memoranda, MBOs and LBOs, venture capital documentation, vendor and project financings
- Restructuring and bankruptcy, including workouts, prepackaged insolvency filings, creditors' rights and bankruptcy litigation and technology licensing and leasing issues
- Disputes, including settlement negotiations for matters related to commercial contracts, regulatory issues, fraud, corporate governance and compliance and investigations
- Regulatory matters, including disputes and all aspects of licensing, authorizations and permits to provide electronic communications services
- Competition issues, including preparation of analyses on the requirements and risks in current and potential markets and ways to deal with them
- Data protection, including call intercept, encryption online, itemized billing and storage of traffic data
- Rights of use, including numbering, frequencies and Internet addresses
- Commercial contracts, including counsel and assistance in negotiating contracts related to network build, mobile virtual network operations, outsourcing, equipment and software supply and service provision
- Access and interconnection issues, including unbundling of local loops, leased lines provisioning, interconnection and peering arrangements
- Users rights and universal service obligations, including such issues as quality of service, obligation to contract, directory services and regulation of retail tariff issues
|