Work Department

Telecoms

Position

Gordon is a Partner in the Telecoms group. He is an internationally recognised expert in telecoms and media with over 20 years’ experience in the space. He has a background of working in-house, including executive roles at one of the world’s biggest carriers. Gordon has provided strategic advice on many of the consolidations in the global telecoms sector in the last decade, either as a participant to the consolidation or as a challenger. His clients include FTSE100 telecoms operators and many other internationally recognised names in the telecoms space, as well as niche providers and industry challengers. He specialises in complex issues in market access, regulation of next generation telecoms services, and can also help with the specific data protection, retention and transfer issues telcos must consider, and has expertise in the legal framework in respect of content and broadcasting. He is highly experienced in competition law in the telecoms sector, having advised telcos and industry bodies in respect of several significant competition law cases, at both a UK and European level, and is increasingly working in the important field of litigation funding, having recently enabled a significant client to obtain funding for a portfolio of competition law actions across a number of European jurisdictions, in one of the first funding deals of its kind.

Mentions

TMT (technology, media and telecoms) • London

IT and telecoms

LEADING PARTNER