Firm Description

Webb Henderson is a first-tier legal and regulatory advisory firm, with a particular focus on the telecommunications and media sectors. We advise clients around the world from our offices in Sydney, Auckland, Singapore and London. Our recent telecommunications experience includes:

• deployment of next generation access networks, particularly fibre-to-the premises, new forms of access regulation for these networks and the provision of broadband wholesale services. We have acted for key players on all of the major NGN projects in the Asia Pacific
• passive and active network infrastructure sharing transactions, including the sharing of mobile network infrastructure, domestic roaming and collocation agreements among telecommunications operators
• regulatory developments that fundamentally alter the existing industry structure, particularly the imposition of functional and structural separation as a regulatory remedy
• investment in international connectivity and undersea cable capacity, including consortium arrangements, landing party agreements, cable systems procurement and IRUs and leasing of cable capacity, as well as satellite capacity arrangements
• the procurement and implementation of key OSS/BSS systems, network infrastructure rollouts and managed service projects, including billing, CRM and ESB solutions, radio and core network rollouts for voice and data, next generation HLR solutions and network management outsourcing
• competition law, including bundling of competitive and non-competitive services, on-net pricing discounts, vertical price squeeze and predatory pricing, price discrimination and contractual restrictions that limit competition
• providing advice to carriers, governments, local authorities and funders on the compatibility of programmes with the European Community state aid rules and the structuring of such arrangements, as well as supporting challenges where appropriate.