Telecom

Pérez-Llorca’s telecom team is built upon a comprehensive understanding of the telecom market’s core revenue sources: from the design, deployment and management of digital infrastructure to the services contracts which the telecom operators and other players need to enter into to carry out their activity, covering the legal assistance required to support the businesses’ organic growth as well as supporting the business in transactional contexts, helping with relationships with the relevant regulatory bodies and assisting in the adoption of strategic decisions and processes where an experienced legal team can make difference.

Our team has strong expertise in catering for all legal aspects related to the telecom market:

• Digital Infrastructure: Towers, Broadband Connectivity, Data Centres, Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) & Small Cells, Broadcast, Satellite, Site ownership and leases / Land Aggregators.
• Telecom operators: Telecom Joint Ventures, Infracos, Network Active/Passive Sharing, Wholesale network operators (neutral operator / wholesale only).
• Network Services: Private networks & Mission critical networks, Internet of things (IOT) / Smart services, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).

Our multidisciplinary team addresses legal issues arising in the telecommunications sector, offering cross-border solutions and comprehensive advice to our clients on their projects, both domestically and internationally.

Our expertise includes the following:

• Business and Commercial Agreements, M&A and Financial Transactions. We assist our clients in designing, drafting and negotiating all type of agreements as well as managing all types of deals and transactions.
• Competition Law and Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”). Our team has in-depth knowledge of all aspects related to Antitrust and FDI, as well as the management of the corresponding proceedings before the relevant telecom regulators and competition authorities in Spain, Portugal and the EU.
• Public regulation. Our team provides support regarding Regulatory considerations, Tender and auction procedures, Access and interconnection, Network deployment and Media ancillary services (VOD, OTT, FAST).
• Tax. Sector-specific tax advice and General high value-added tax advice.
• Land Planning, Environmental Law and Real Estate considerations. Tailor-made advice with a huge team of experts only devoted to these practices.
• Dispute resolution. Contentious-administrative proceedings, Antitrust litigation proceedings related to companies in the telecommunications industry, Complex litigation proceedings and all aspects of arbitral proceedings in the telecommunications sector.