Communications, Media & Technology

Convergence has blurred traditional industry boundaries between the communications, media and technology sectors. To add to this, industry consolidation has taken place on a global scale. There is now a clear need for multi-disciplinary and international legal advisers. Our CMT Group offers an integrated team with specialist industry expertise across our international offices. We advise global players from a variety of industries, as well as governments, regulators and investment banks. Our mix of legal and regulatory hands-on commercial experience enables us to provide relevant legal services of the highest quality.

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Our quarterly publication compares volume and value of public and private global deal types across sectors and regions.
On 13 November 2007, the EU Commission published its proposals for reform of the EU Telecoms regulatory package, first introduced in 2002. It is intended to be a major revision to a package which, by its very nature, was intended to become outdated. A basic premise of the reforms in 2002 was that the introduction of better regulation would lead to an increase in competition, which in turn would reduce the need for regulation.

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Allen & Overy LLP has advised the joint bookrunners – BofA Merrill Lynch, BNP PARIBAS, Citi, Credit Suisse and EFG-Hermes – in connection with the USD790 million rights issue by Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.
Allen & Overy advised Research in Motion (RIM) on its definitive agreement to settle all outstanding worldwide patent litigation with patent licensing company Visto (July 2009).
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