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Telecommunications

The Firm’s lawyers work with telecommunications clients as they anticipate and manage competition, consolidation and globalization in the industry. Our clients across the industry—in broadband, cable, mobile and satellite—operate in both mature and emerging markets.

360 Degrees
Our practice combines the Firm’s experience in transactional, regulatory, policy and litigation matters

Our work includes the representation of participants in acquisitions and joint ventures, issuers and banks in capital markets and financing transactions, and telecommunications companies in compliance and litigation matters. Our representations include:

  • EQT Infrastructure III in the sale of its portfolio company Lumos to a joint venture between T-Mobile and EQT Infrastructure VI Fund
  • Sixth Street in its strategic investment with GI Partners in Blue Stream Fiber to expand fiber-optic connectivity services
  • MasMovil (including its shareholders) and the JV co-controlled by Orange and MasMovil in a $19 billion financing for the combination of MasMovil and Orange Spain
  • Digital Colony and EQT Infrastructure in the $14.3 billion acquisition of Zayo
  • Banks in the financing related to AT&T’s spin-off of WarnerMedia and subsequent combination of WarnerMedia with Discovery, Inc.
  • KKR in its acquisition of Telefónica Chile’s wholesale fiber optic network
  • Trial defense of Cisco and on appeal before the Federal Circuit and Supreme Court in patent litigation over Bluetooth technology
  • Vodafone’s sale of its 45% interest in Verizon Wireless to Verizon Communications Inc. for $130 billion

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        Simpson Thacher Recognized as “Legal Advisory Trailblazer” and “Digital Infrastructure Legal Advisor (Value)” at TMT M&A USA Awards 2024
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        Law360 Profiles Simpson Thacher as a Telecommunications Group of the Year