Herbert Smith Freehills LLP has long held a prominent position in the Singapore and Southeast Asia TMT sector. The Singapore team has the advantage of tapping into the expertise and resources of the firm across Asia Pacific and globally, giving it a sizeable platform to advise large multinationals, alongside local and regional businesses. It has continued to work on multiple acquisitions and disposals of technology and telecoms assets, investments by financial sponsors, the development of hyper-scale data centres, large outsourcing projects and substantial digital transformation matters. Emerging talent Harry Evans leads the commercial side of the TMT department, with Peggy Chow heading the data and cybersecurity team across Asia.
Key clients
- Zain Group and TASC Towers Holding
- Infratil
Work highlights
- Advised Zain Group and TASC Towers Holding on a telecoms towers and joint venture deal with Ooredoo.
- Advised Infratil on its $160m acquisition of an 80% stake in the 'automated on-demand' communication services business of Hong Kong Telecom (HKT), branded Console Connect.