Technology, knowledge, success
Our team knows technology and telecommunications from the ground up. We offer leading expertise in competition law as well as the full range of commercial issues that shape and define the industry. Our advice is matched by formidable technical knowledge.
We help major technology suppliers and purchasers to operate successfully in New Zealand. We also provide a “one-stop shop” for New Zealand and international companies working in the media and entertainment sector, including advice on intellectual property, defamation and industry standards.
We have advised
- Telecom on its three-way operational separation; and on Commerce Commission determinations for new regulated services such as local loop unbundling, co-location, wholesale bitstream and backhaul.
- Telecom on the acquisition of its $574 million WCDMA mobile telephone network.
- Ministry of Education on the outsourcing of the schools payroll system, New Zealand’s largest and most complex payroll, involving approximately $3 billion a year.
- Weta Workshop on the corporate structure and funding arrangements behind its television production and collectibles businesses, and on the negotiation and preparation of effects production agreements and merchandising licences.
- publishers and broadcasters in advertising and broadcasting standards matters, pre-publication review of articles and other media to ensure compliance with laws affecting the media, including specialist advice to Metro, North & South, and Woman's Day magazines on defamation, privacy and contempt of court issues.
- Telecom New Zealand on the outsourcing of its 3PL and 4PL operations (comprising end-to-end procurement, logistics and strategic sourcing of mobile devices).
- Telecom New Zealand on the formation of its joint venture Yahoo!Xtra with Yahoo!7, to provide online content, applications, email services and the Yahoo!Xtra advertising portal.
- Telecom New Zealand on inter-carrier wholesale and interconnection arrangements with other carriers.
- ASB Bank on the upgrade and replacement of its treasury systems.
- Vector on the outsourcing of its IT infrastructure services to Datacom.
- Fonterra on its EDI trading and its project to enable electronic dealing with farmers.
- Provenco Group on its NZ$80m merger with Cadmus Technology to create ProvencoCadmus, a significant NZ technology company with a global focus.
- Electronic Transactions Systems Limited (ETSL) on all aspects of New Zealand’s principal ATM, Eftpos, and card payment and settlement systems.
- M-Com, a global leader in mobile banking and mobile payment solutions, on its strategic alliance agreement with Fiserv, the world’s largest service provider to banks and investment advisors.
- Meridian Energy on the upgrade of hardware, operating system and applications components of its Generation Control System (GCS), to remotely control, monitor and manage Meridian Energy’s electricity generation plant portfolio.
- ACP Media Limited in High Court defamation proceedings brought against its North & South publication.
- Maori Television in domain name arbitration before the World Intellectual Property Organisation.