TechQuake
The shock of the new
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:
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.
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
Advising on its agreement to sell O2 to Hutchison Whampoa, parent company of UK telecom operator Three. The acquisition would have merged the businesses of 02 and Hutchison's existing British carrier, Three, creating the largest mobile operator in the U.K., with a total of 33 million customers
Advising in relation to the US$290 million acquisition of Silicon Valley-based Ooyala (US), a leading global player in over-the-top video advertising, and the subsequent acquisitions of Videoplaza (Sweden) and Nativ (UK)
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
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
Partner, UK Regional Head of Practice, Competition, Regulation and Trade, London