M Webb is a law firm that advises on telecoms transactions and regulation
- About the firm
- Corporate and commercial transactions
- Regulatory advisory
About the firm
The firm advises on: * the negotiation of corporate and commercial transactions involving digital infrastructure and wholesale access and * regulatory issues in the telecoms sector, including disputes and policy advocacy. The majority of our work involves investment in, and regulation of, fibre and high speed wireless broadband networks. We stand out from our much larger competitors as a result of our concentrated specialist focus. Our practice is international. We mainly work in the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our clients are telecoms operators and service providers, investors and financiers, governments and regulators and international agencies. Formally, we are a New Zealand incorporated law firm, regulated by the New Zealand Law Society.
Corporate and commercial transactions
In our corporate and commercial transactions work, we focus on transactions related to digital infrastructure and wholesale access, including sharing arrangements, infrastructure acquisition, vendor procurement and transactions to bring about new market structures. Recent examples include: Advising an Asian operator on the terms of access to a 4G/5G neutral infrastructure network Advising an African mobile operator on its new market entry, including its wholesale and infrastructure sharing arrangements with the incumbent operator Advising a Middle East operator on its national roaming and infrastructure sharing transactions, as well as vendor procurement for a 4G and 5G network Advising an Asia Pacific service provider on its MVNO arrangements with a host operator Advising an African operator on its negotiations relating to the establishment of a wholesale only mobile operator Advising a Middle East operator on the legal separation of the incumbent fixed line operator
Regulatory advisory
In our regulatory advisory work, we advise on regulatory issues in the telecoms sector, including disputes and policy advocacy. This work includes market structure issues and access regulation in developed and emerging markets, as well as spectrum licensing, competition law and digital policy issues. Recent examples include: Advising an African new mobile entrant on the regulatory issues concerning its market entry as the number two operator Advising a Middle East mobile operator on regulatory disputes regarding wholesale access terms and pricing Advising an African operator in its government and regulator engagement strategy on broadband policy, spectrum assignment, digital policy and open access networks Advising a South Asian regulator on legal issues concerning the licence and auctioning of radio spectrum Advising Asia Pacific service providers on regulated access to a wholesale-only fibre provider’s network services Advising a Middle East operator on the reference offer of a separated wholesale-only fibre entity Advising a Latin American regulator on the legal separation of the incumbent fixed line operator Advising an Asia Pacific operator on regulatory remedies flowing from a proposed market consolidation
About Malcolm
Malcolm is a telecoms lawyer and is the principal of M Webb Ltd. He provides expert legal and regulatory advice to telecommunications clients on corporate and commercial transactions and regulatory issues. Malcolm has been ranked as one of the top telecoms lawyers in the world by Who's Who Legal and in Band 1 for TMT in Chambers Asia Pacific. He is admitted to practice in NZ, Australia and the UK and is a registered foreign lawyer in Singapore. He is a past Chair of the Communications Law Committee of the International Bar Association.
