About

‘Incredibly hands on, very good at managing external resources,’ Scott Weenink has vast experience in the telecommunications sector, spanning Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Mobile communications investment company Ooredoo has numerous holdings across Asia, including Starhub, Asia Mobile and Wi-tribe. Ooredoo Myanmar launched in 2014, and Weenink led the process of obtaining one of the two licenses for its operations in the jurisdiction. Weenink helped establish Ooredoo’s Singapore office in 2009, when the company purchased a controlling stake in Indosat, a takeover he himself led. Since then Ooredoo’s Singapore team has grown to 13 people, and covers operations across Asia, with Weenink managing all legal, regulatory, HR and administrative functions. Originating from New Zealand, Weenink began his career at leading national firm Bell Gully, before completing a masters at Oxford University and spending five years as an associate at Norton Rose Fulbright. During his first in-house role at Telecom New Zealand, Weenink handled the high-profile sale of Yellow Pages NZ to a private equity consortium in 2007. ‘We managed to secure an extraordinarily high price on a very complex and difficult transaction,’ he says. When it comes to working with outside counsel, Weenink looks for lawyers who are focused on identifying business solutions alongside the risks.