Telecommunications, Media and Technology

The telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) industries are evolving rapidly, and their impact on daily lives continues to grow. Maintaining a competitive advantage in these fast-changing marketplaces is a major challenge for companies. At the same time, regulators and policymakers have to decide on the balance between competition and intervention in a market where technology, services and customer behaviour changes significantly from year to year.

Confronted with the twin challenges of quickly evolving technology and a regulatory environment trying to keep pace, organisations and the legal community require independent and objective expert advice across a broad range of areas. These areas include competition policy and litigation, regulation, strategy, costing and pricing, intellectual property (IP) management, sector policy and spectrum. BRG professionals have earned an international reputation in these areas through advice on liberalisation, market restructuring, regulation, commercial strategy and antitrust, as well as expert testimony and damages quantification in litigation and international arbitration. Our clients have included network operators, service providers, governments, regulators and technology and media companies.

BRG TMT professionals combine deep industry experience, leading technical expertise across a range of fields and global reach, allowing them to assemble teams with the specific talent and insights to address a particular problem and provide highly specialised and strategic advice. Our experts are known for their ability to provide objective and independent advice on issues of critical strategic importance and with major financial or public policy implications

The TMT practice covers several primary areas of expertise:

Competition/Antitrust

• Mergers
• Abuse of dominance, including excessive pricing, predation, refusal to deal and discrimination
• Essential facilities and other forms of wholesale access arrangements, including access pricing
• Intellectual property
• Competition regulatory risk analysis and strategy

Litigation and Arbitration

• Investor-state arbitration
• Commercial litigation
• Valuation of TMT businesses and assets, including intangible assets
• Loss of profits
• Regulatory litigation, including excessive pricing, predation, refusal to deal and discrimination

Regulation and Policy

• Regulatory policy, including competition, infrastructure investment, co-investment, access arrangements and separation
• Cost modelling (top-down and bottom-up)
• Profitability analysis
• Financial impact analysis
• Design and implementation of price controls and other forms of regulatory remedy
• Regulatory financial reporting

Spectrum

• Spectrum valuation
• Assignment processes and auction design
• Economic impact of spectrum assignment
• Spectrum policy
• Litigation

Strategy

• Financial modelling and business planning
• Restructuring and organisational change
• Pricing
• Profitability analysis
• Regulatory strategy