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Digital Infrastructure: underpins the digital economy. It is an incredibly active sector across the globe for operators, vendors and increasingly investment banks, private equity houses and infrastructure funds. Our Partners have longstanding experience in advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of digital infrastructure including mobile towers, fibre networks, subsea cable, data centres and satellite.
Digital Transformation: companies across all industry sectors are focused on optimising operational efficiency whilst strategically harnessing the value of their data. The Ashurst Digital Economy Transactions team supports our clients in developing and successfully implementing their digital transformation strategies.
End-to-end expertise: whether it's digital infrastructure, digital services or digital transformation, we advise on regulatory (telecoms, financial services regulation and data protection) and strategic projects, JVs, M&A and IPOs, financing, IP, competition and disputes. Our core Digital Economy team works closely with "digital champions" from all expertise areas across Ashurst ensuring that clients receive comprehensive advice and a full service offering on all aspects of their transaction.
With the rise of the digital economy the ecosystem is changing. There is cross-fertilisation of legal know-how across these sectors and clients which the team harness for the benefit of their clients to provide insightful, state of the art advice.
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Ashurst has a recognised focus on corporate and commercial transactions in the telecoms space, including the development of new infrastructure assets and the procurement of capacity by non-traditional telecoms clients. The law firm demonstrates additional experience in merger control within the sector. It is further noted for expertise in regulatory, commercial and financing matters in African jurisdictions.
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Ashurst have a detailed knowledge of our business, our customers and our suppliers. The application of this knowledge leads to developing optimal legal and commercial outcomes.
Ashurst offers the softness, the client care wrap, the individual attention, which is exceptional.
Ashurst's digital economy team have incredible experience dealing with telecoms-related transactions.
This is a talented group of lawyers who bring a commercial and sensible mindset to negotiations and a pragmatic view of risk.
A very responsive and collaborative core team, combined with the ability to bring in excellent subject matter experts from across the firm. Also, unsurpassed industry knowledge of the subsea sector.
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Amanda Hale routinely handles regulatory mandates relating to large telecoms infrastructure projects. She is equally adept at advising on network rollouts and various commercial arrangements.
Amanda Hale offers good risk calibration and sensible points of view rooted in reality and practicality.
Amanda Ludlow operates across the technology spectrum, with a particularly strong focus on technology-led innovation and digital infrastructure issues. She recently moved to London from Brisbane, Australia and co-leads the firm's digital economy team.
Amanda Ludlow has the ability to see through the noise and guide the conversation forward.
She is an extremely safe pair of hands and has a wealth of knowledge and expertise across all aspects of telecoms.
Amanda Ludlow has been very savvy, practical and incredibly responsive. She understands the business and the industry back to front.
Amanda brings in a wealth of experience from Australian and UK practice, so she has seen it all in the telecoms sector, which enables her to articulate issues in a simple yet reassuring manner.
Amanda provides practical and commercially astute legal advice, often in difficult circumstances and to tight deadlines, but is always reassuringly calm and considered.
Rebecca Clarke supports leading TMT operators as well as investment funds on telecoms and digital convergence projects.
Rebecca Clarke invests in knowing the team and its priorities. Her investment shows - and pays off - in her anticipation and service delivery.
Rebecca Clarke has been a great support to our legal team in applying an in-depth knowledge of our business, our commercial contracts and our customers to complex legal and commercial issues.
A trusted adviser and fount of knowledge.
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