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.
Advising on its bid to advise the Ministry of Justice as its main provider of network and outsourced services in connection with the MoJ's Future IT/Telecoms Sourcing Programme
Advising on its investment in the SEA-ME-WE 5 sub-sea cable system, a multi-regional superhighway that will provide the lowest latency and represent an additional network layer of diversity and resilience for the heavily loaded Asia to Europe route. SEA-ME-WE 5 will connect 17 countries from Singapore to Europe (Italy and France). It covers Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Oman, UAE, Yemen, Djibouti, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
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
Advising on its initial acquisition, and subsequent sale, of online holiday accommodation business Stayz, to HomeAway
Advising a Chinese semiconductor company, on a pre-conditional voluntary general offer for STATS ChipPAC Ltd., a company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange worth US$780 million. This was one of the largest TMT deals in Singapore in 2016 and was one of the biggest Chinese acquisitions in the semiconductor space. This deal won Southeast Asian Asset & Corporate Finance Deal of The Year, Asian Legal Business (ALB) Awards 2016
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
Partner, UK Regional Head of Practice, Competition, Regulation and Trade, London