Digital Communications Infrastructure
Digital infrastructure drives the future, making it an attractive area for investors, and an area of scrutiny for regulators
At CMS, we have some of Europe’s leading legal specialists in the technology, media and communications sector. Our Digital Communications Infrastructure Team combines exceptional expertise in project and structured finance, competition regulation and large-scale investment, including joint ventures and M&A, while our market-leading telecommunications team has decades of experience in the technology and communications space, including strong expertise in the areas of fibre, towers, subsea cables, network sharing, data centres and satellite.
With full service offices in over 40 countries, we have the geographic reach, people and expertise to manage the biggest and busiest volumes of sector-specific work for our clients.
A safe pair of hands
Thanks to a diverse range of clients and our career backgrounds, CMS has looked at and advised on digital infrastructure issues from every angle, across our practice groups.
Some of our recent experience includes advising:
- 4iG on their acquisition, with Corvinus, of Vodafone Hungary.
- ON*NET Fibra and KKR on M&A, telecommunication and acquisition financing matters related to the acquisition of the existing fibre optic network of Entel Chile.
- River and Mercantile on its £155m investment into UK wholesale fibre operator Spring Fibre.
- Macquarie Capital on a transaction to bring on-board Arjun Infrastructure Partners into Spain’s Onivia wholesale fibre network.
- Equinix in relation to licensing of fibre, lighting of dark fibre, telecommunications licences, and development and construction of new data centres in Asia Pacific.
- ING in respect of two data centre refinancings.
- Etisalat / e& on the corporate reorganisation of its business to create a new enterprise division providing data centre, cloud, cybersecurity, IoT and AI solutions to enterprise and public sector customers.
- Hamburg Commercial Bank on the financing of fibre optic rollout in various German municipalities.
- Ooredoo Group on the sale of its telecom business in Myanmar to Nine Communications Pte. Ltd, subject to regulatory approvals.
- 4iG on the indirect acquisition of Albanian telco, One Telecommunications, upon acquiring all the shares in the Bulgarian company Albania Telecom Invest.
- Sewikom, the German fibre network operator, on its acquisition by Northern Fiber Holding.
- KKR on the acquisition of a majority stake in Telefónica Chile’s fibre optic network.
- Telefonica Deutschland on the sale of its passive infrastructure to Telxius.
- Macquarie Capital on the acquisition of a stake in MasMovil’s fibre-to-the-home network and a joint venture for rural fibre roll out in Spain.
- Macquarie on the sale of a stake in Pentacom to Daiwa Energy & Infrastructure.
- euNetworks on its acquisition of The Loop from Gamma.
- Foresight Group on a long-term financing agreement with Lightning Fibre.
- CityFibre on the acquisition of FibreNation.
- Horizon Capital and Datagroup on the leveraged acquisition of Volia.
- Vodafone Ukraine on the acquisition of Vega Telecom.
- Natixis on a EUR 180 million syndicated loan to Sipartech.
- Marguerite on its investment in the next-generation Ellalink subsea cable system, connecting Portugal and Brazil with stubs going to Cape Vede and Madeira, including providing multijurisdictional due diligence, transactional and financing advice.
- EllaLink on a number of commercial, financing (including both debt and vendor financing) and restructuring projects.
The EllaLink system won the award for Subsea Project of the Year at the Capacity Europe Global Carrier Awards. - Fugro on Law of the Sea issues relating to surveys for submarine cable projects.
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