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Johnson Winter Slattery

TMT: IT & Telecommunications

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Johnson Winter Slattery’s multi-disciplinary team helps organisations manage risk and embrace opportunities in the technology, telecommunications and media sectors.

They provide expert guidance to leading technology clients and suppliers on complex, high-stakes, digital projects and disputes. Their services span new product launches, supply terms, regulatory compliance, technology partnerships, systems integration, procurement, telecommunications and data protection. With a holistic, "whole-of-market" approach, they deliver strategic solutions tailored to clients’ needs.

In telecommunications, they work with carriers, service providers, utilities and ‘over the top’ providers, including some of the world’s best-known social media and digital platforms, as well as major companies and governments, in their whole of business telecommunications services contracts.

JWS also helps clients in the highly competitive and fast-changing media environment tackle critical legal challenges and capitalise on opportunities, while protecting and balancing strategic, commercial and editorial interests. As one of Australia’s leading media practices, JWS advise on all issues relating to pre-publication and pre-broadcast matters, together with representing media defendants in relation to defamation, contempt, copyright, consumer law claims and litigation. They act for industry-leading media platforms, titles and networks, as well as global tech leaders.

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TMT: IT & Telecommunications - Australia

Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Johnson Winter Slattery provides dedicated defamation and pre-publication advice to prominent print, online, radio and television clients, including multinational media distributors and publishers. The law firm offers noteworthy experience in judicial challenges and injunctions, and also acts for corporate clients on reputation management and their responses to media attacks. It represents clients in media litigation at all levels of the Australian courts system. On the IT and telecommunications front, the firm offers a comprehensive range of practice area services, acting both for leading international suppliers and for customers from a variety of industries. Key areas of expertise and experience include partnering with leading US and European law firms to support the technology and telecoms requirements of businesses from those jurisdictions entering the Australian market, and carrying out due diligence investigations into technology sector M&A transaction targets.

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Work Highlights

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  • JWS assisted CrescoNet in renegotiating its existing partnership agreement with Intellihub to set up a master service arrangement covering Australia and New Zealand, under which CrescoNet will provide a fully outsourced meter data management service.

  • JWS defended Microsoft in Supreme Court of Victoria defamation proceedings brought by Milorad Trkulja.

Strengths

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  • They seem to be able to attract good talent, and, importantly, retain it. The team I work with covers all levels of expertise required to be cost-efficient.

    TMT: IT & Telecommunications respondentAsia-Pacific

  • JWS are efficient. They utilise effective communication to quickly neutralise problems and their deep subject matter understanding makes their input consistently valuable.

    TMT: IT & Telecommunications respondentAsia-Pacific

Notable Practitioners

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  • Kevin Lynch
    Kevin Lynch

    Kevin Lynch

    Kevin Lynch is a highly experienced Sydney-based litigator who acts across a broad range of contentious matters - including defamation, intellectual property and trade practices issues - for high-profile media organisations.

    • Kevin Lynch is very experienced, practical, commercial in approach and cost-effective. He is a great communicator and advises on complex issues.

      TMT: IT & Telecommunications respondentAsia-Pacific

    • Kevin is understated, but very experienced, keeps every aspect of the litigation in check and he is great to work with.

      TMT: IT & Telecommunications respondentAsia-Pacific
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  • Sophie Dawson
    Sophie Dawson

    Sophie Dawson

    Sophie Dawson is based in Sydney and handles contentious issues across media, privacy and technology, being particularly well known for her expertise in the areas of defamation, intellectual property and contractual disputes.

    • The way she treated us and the level at which she worked with us was at the highest level; it was a privilege to work with her.

      TMT: IT & Telecommunications respondentAsia-Pacific
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