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Clifford Chance LLP

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Clifford Chance LLP caters to a broad range of clients across the TMT sector including Spotify, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Fujitsu. The practice incorporates expertise in M&A, tax, intellectual property and antitrust. André Duminy advises on compliance-related issues with experience in acting for start-ups. He co-heads the team with Jennifer Chimanga who specialises in M&A matters particularly in emerging markets. Simon Persoff works on issues such as outsourcing arrangements while Kate Scott and Samantha Ward handle litigation and contentious regulatory work. Zayed Al Jamil focuses on complex outsourcings, procurement agreements and data licensing.

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  • ‘While we have a more regular day to day point of contact, we do also engage with representatives across a number of different departments, be it commercial agreements, employment law, intellectual property etc. Whoever we need to engage with, the reassurance, peace of mind and level of client service we receive is exceptional.’

Key clients

  • Africell
  • Allegro
  • Anchorage Capital Partners
  • Booking.com
  • Cellnex Telecom
  • Delivery Hero
  • Codere Group
  • Delivery Hero
  • EE
  • Entain plc
  • Fujitsu
  • FIS
  • Gamesys Group
  • Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
  • HQLAx
  • Informa
  • Inmarsat
  • Invictus Games Foundation
  • LZ Labs
  • MTN
  • NTT Communications
  • NBC Universal / Comcast
  • Nielsen Holdings plc
  • Octopus Energy / Kraken Technologies
  • Oracle Corporation
  • News Group
  • Sitecore
  • Spotify
  • Telefonica
  • Tencent

Work highlights

  • Advised Cellnex Telecom on the disposal of a package of approximately 1,100 sites in the UK to Wireless Infrastructure Group.
  • Acted for a global e-gaming business on strategic, policy and compliance rules on platform rules under the EU/UK platform to business regulation.
  • Advised Oracle on the worldwide filing analysis and all of the competition law and foreign direct investment (FDI) filings outside of the US in connection with its acquisition of Cerner Corp.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

André Duminy, Jennifer Chimanga

Other key lawyers

Simon Persoff, Kate Scott, Samantha Ward, Zayed Al Jamil