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eals and Disputes
Late 2003 and 2004

 

 
 
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Probel - acted in connection with its agreement to supply a full automation and playout system and other broadcasting equipment and services to RTÉ, the Irish national TV broadcaster, with a value of in excess of £1 million.

 

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Major telecommunications company - settled a multi-million pound claim against this client in relation to its withdrawal of services to a virtual ISP.

 

 

Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC - acted as legal adviser to this company, which trades as MTC-Vodafone, the lead shareholder of a consortium bidding for a second GSM licence for Iran.

 

 

Large telecommunications company - settlement of a dispute on behalf of this client following the acquisition of a telecommunications network from a company which had gone into liquidation.

 

 
Major telecommunications company - we created a dispute resolution mechanism to resolve multimillion pound claims concerning telecom traffic.

 

 

Major telecommunications company - acted on an acquisition by this company of a majority shareholding in an overseas telecoms company, the incumbent operator, together with associated shareholder and regulatory arrangements.

 

 

Major telecommunications company - acted on the disposal of part of the company's UK business.

 

 

Telecommunications operator - on behalf of this client successfully terminated a contract with a Telco Reseller in anticipation that AIT fraud was likely to be carried out by the Telco Reseller.

 

 

Major telecommunications company - resolved a multimillion pound dispute relating to a large outsourcing matter where our client had outsourced its facility management services.

 

 

Spiritel plc - acted for this company on its £56 million reverse takeover by the shareholders of Expo Communications Limited and its re-admission to AIM. Expo connects phone calls originating on fixed lines to mobile phones.


 

Telecommunications operator - acted for this client in claiming for the severance of one of its seabed cables, including an investigation of identity of the ship which caused the damage obtaining expert evidence on cable laying, and obtaining full payment for our client through a mediation.

 

 

Major telecommunications operator - acted for this client in the change of management of a number of call centres. After taking physical control of the centres, we successfully defended proceedings for an injunction by the previous management company securing the service of the call centres for our client.

 

 

Adjudication of telecoms construction - our work in this area has included acting for the company responsible for the construction of trenching and defending claims by a trench sharer which was brought by way of adjudication.

 

 
MMI Research Limited - acted for the directors of this mobile telecommunications company in board dispute.