Our telecommunications team includes attorneys who have extensive telecom experience throughout Europe and Latin America and are admitted to practice in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. We help local and international clients address virtually all competition-related issues, from privatization to the introduction of meaningful competition in Latin American markets. For example, Bracewell recently advised a major Spanish power company on the sale of its Chilean mobile telecom unit to Mexico’s telecom giant América Móvil for $470 million. We also represented the largest telephone company in Brazil in a series of regulatory and competition related matters, and we advise a large new Latin American provider of phone cards and funds transfer services.
We help clients build systems in less-developed countries, manage relationships with regulators, draft regulations, develop financial structures, and negotiate a broad range of contracts in competitive markets. We also represent clients providing roaming, billing, financial clearing, and software services to operators around the world.