William Fry LLP continues to handle some of the most prominent and high-profile regulation, enforcement, and litigation matters in the Irish and EU telecommunications sectors. The team regularly assists clients with regulatory matters, network build and roll-out projects, corporate transactions, data protection matters, and matters related to competition law and consumer law. Practice head Claire Waterson has extensive knowledge of Irish and EU competition law and advises regulators and private operators on contentious and non-contentious matters related to telecoms law, with support from Garrett Breen, Cormac Little SC, and Sheila Tormey.
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Key clients
- Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
- Digicel
- Towercom
- SIRO
- Tesco Mobile
- Three
- Dense Air Ireland
Work highlights
- Advised the DECC's procurement, commercial and technical teams on all legal aspects of the National Broadband Plan.
- Advised Towercom on the structuring, drafting and negotiation of complex transactions and commercial agreements (including licence agreements) in the telecoms sphere.
- Assisted SIRO with the €620m multi-layered financing it obtained to fund phase 2 of its fibre broadband network roll-out across Ireland.
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Claire Waterson