Andrew Kenning
Partner
London
Andrew Kenning
Partner
London
Contact details
Andrew advises clients on complex and business-critical commercial agreements, with a focus on the communications and technology sectors. This includes extensive experience of digital infrastructure transactions across the globe, advising telecom operators making disposals as well as strategic infrastructure operators and financial investors. Andrew also advises on complex separation/transition aspects of M&A across a broad range of transaction types and sectors.
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
LLB Law, University of Warwick, 2002
LPC, Nottingham Law School, 2004
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Experience highlights
Advising a multinational telecommunications company on its GBP31.4bn joint venture with Telefónica to merge Virgin Media and O2’s fixed, broadband and mobile businesses in the UK (Telecom M&A Deal of the Year – Europe, TMT Finance 2021)
Advising a multinational telecommunications company on the commercial agreements concerning the formation of AtlasEdge, a pan-European edge colocation data centre joint venture with DigitalBridge (Digital Infrastructure Deal of the Year – Europe, TMT Finance 2021)
Advising a group of telecommunications services providers on the sale of towers in Russia to Service-Telecom for a total of RUB70.65bn (USD970million)
Advising GN Hearing in respect of a suite of related commercial agreements forming a “Smart Hearing Alliance” joint venture with Cochlear, featuring joint research and development, shared technology and commercial collaboration
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
LLB Law, University of Warwick, 2002
LPC, Nottingham Law School, 2004
Other noteworthy experience
Advising:
- An emerging markets MNO group on a series of disposals of mobile tower infrastructure
- An international digital infrastructure investor on its final-round bid for the multi-country carve-out and stake sale of Telia’s towers portfolio
- GN Hearing in respect of a suite of related commercial agreements forming a “Smart Hearing Alliance” joint venture with Cochlear, featuring joint research and development, shared technology and commercial collaboration
- Marks & Spencer in respect of the commercial arrangements relating to its joint venture with Ocado
Recognition
Ranked as “Up and coming”
(Chambers UK 2022, Telecommunications - UK-wide)
Andrew Kenning - Head and shoulders ahead (in terms of knowledge, negotiation and approachability) of every partner in every other firm in this sector.
(Legal 500 2022, IT and Telecoms)
Tom Levine and Andrew Kenning are extremely knowledgeable (including on the technical front) and commercial which facilitates all the deals. Having worked a lot with them, they totally understand the priorities of our business which means they are almost an extension of our team
(Legal 500 2022, IT and Telecoms)
Andrew consistently wins praise from clients for his work on corporate transactions in the telecoms sector. Interviewees describe him as "extremely strong technically" and say that "he is hard-working, he knows his stuff and it is a pleasure to work with him.
(Chambers UK 2019, Telecommunications - UK-wide)
