Sixth Annual TelecomFinance Conference & Awards Dinner

Ernst & Young’s Global Telecommunications Center is a virtual hub that brings together people, cultures and leading ideas from across the world, to help you address your global, regional and local challenges.

These may include next-generation services and product profitability, customer lifecycles and revenue assurance, working capital management, risk, regulatory strategies and compliance, potential cost reductions, mergers and acquisitions, financial and operational improvements, accounting and tax strategies.

Whatever your need, we can help you improve the performance of your business. Hide

The global sector team advises clients across the major European telecom markets, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas.

The firm's telecoms lawyers include experts from across our market-leading corporate M&A, commercial and financial practices, including regulatory experts. Working closely with industry regulators and government bodies means that the team has exceptional insight into the complexities of the commercial and regulatory environment in which telecoms companies operate.

Our aim is to ensure that our telecoms clients' needs are met in every conceivable situation in every part of the world. Our structure ensures that we can draw on the expertise and experience of our corporate and commercial divisions in other sectors to meet the varied advisory and transactional needs of our clients.

This ensures we are at the forefront of developing innovative structures to solve the complexities inherent in the telecoms sector. Hide

ING Commercial Banking meets all of the banking needs of corporations and large multinationals, as well as financial institutions. With a history that stretches back some 200 years, we have made a name for ourselves by helping clients build successful businesses. ING Commercial Banking has 15,000 employees serving its clients through an extensive network in 40 countries, spanning the world's major financial services markets. Telecom is a core sector within Commercial Banking, with solutions offered through a dedicated team of global telecoms professionals to support the sector’s financing needs. We hold solid track records in Corporate and Specialised Lending, Corporate Finance, Debt Capital Markets and Financial Markets to provide the best possible solutions to our telecom clients. Hide

We focus on larger transactions, including multi-billion dollar financings and acquisitions around the globe involving such operators as Verizon, América Móvil, Intelsat, LightSquared, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Protelindo and Bharti Airtel.

For more than 140 years, we have provided innovative legal solutions in many of the world's largest, most complex, "first-ever" corporate transactions and litigation.

Our transactional expertise includes capital markets, corporate finance, project finance, acquisition finance, and other major fields of law practice.

The Firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, DC. Hide

Clients use us to support their activity in all stages of the telecoms industry life-cycle:

We work with governments on pre-privatisations and the privatisation process

We help set up regulators and regulatory frameworks.

We support operators bidding in privatisations and licence auctions.

We assist new entrants on licence bids and regulatory challenges.

As markets mature, we advise clients on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.

We advise banks, operators and vendors to finance and roll out communications networks.

We work with new and established 'players' bringing new services to market.

Using political and regulatory intelligence we can help clients in government affairs matters

Clients recognise the value we add over and above just 'being great lawyers'. Our sectoral strengths linked to our geographical focus enable us to bring a deep understanding and 'hit the ground' running. We are committed to client service and continue to innovate, generating value and insights for our clients. .

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CSMG provides a broad range of strategic advisory services from growth and business transformation to ecosystem and business model evolution, to partnership, acquisition and deal development support. We help our global client base transform their businesses and the industries in which they operate. Our worldwide clients represent a number of sectors ranging from mobile and fixed telecom providers, cable and satellite operators, technology and digital media businesses, regulators, industry verticals, and financial service firms serving the telecoms industry.

Strategic Planning for Communications Market Growth

CSMG regularly supports boards and management teams plan their next moves. We have a wealth of historical market knowledge and context from which to draw perspectives, but a focus on the cutting-edge aspects of the communications, technology, and digital media markets. While our specific activities may run the spectrum of all our service areas for any given board or executive team, our typical areas of focus include:

• Board and Business Unit-level Strategy
• Market Opportunity Assessment and Expansion Strategies
• Partnership and M&A Target Identification
• Regulatory/Litigation Expert Support

Investor Support for Communications, Technology and Media Investments

CSMG regularly supports investors in assessing deals in the communications, technology, and digital media markets. We have supported numerous Private Equity, Venture Capital, Commercial Lenders, as well as service providers and vendors globally. Typically we supplement an existing deal team and provide industry, market, product or service analysis relevant to the key investment theses driving the potential investment. These projects typically involve extensive review of a company’s strategy, business plan and business case and often incorporate market analysis of customers, competing products, technologies and ecosystems.

Typical areas of focus include:

• Strategic and Operational Due Diligence
• Critical Risk Assessment
• Financial Modelling
• Sensitivities and Scenario Development
• Business Case Modelling
• Valuation Support
• Negotiation Support

Our Firm

Our peerless industry depth and experience, signature strategy and quantitative methodologies enable our clients to make sound business decisions in a complex and ever-changing market.

CSMG is a TMNG Global company (NASDAQ: TMNG). Since 1990, TMNG Global and its subsidiaries, CSMG and Cartesian, have provided strategy, business, operations and technical consulting to more than 1,200 firms worldwide within the communications, digital media, technology and financial services industries.

CSMG has offices in Boston, US and London, UK. Hide

Access to expert advice is essential. Our clients are always looking for the next opportunity - be it an acquisition, strategic investment or a sale. Mott MacDonald’s consultants combine deep commercial knowledge of telecoms markets with a pragmatic understanding of the key technologies, costs and operations.

We assist clients to:-

• Undertake mergers, acquisitions and strategic investments
• Manage risks around project and infrastructure development finance
• Complete strategic investments, privatisations, IPOs and asset disposals
• Acquire new licences, and manage regulatory processes
  

For more information on our due diligence services or the other services offered by Mott MacDonald’s Technology and Communications team, please contact:

Andrew Doyle
T: +44 +44 207 651 0532
M: +44 (0)7587 159109
E: andrew.doyle@mottmac.com.

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In CEE, RBI operates an extensive network of subsidiary banks, leasing companies and a range of other specialized financial service providers in 17 markets. 56,000 employees service about 15 million customers through around 3,000 business outlets in the region. RBI is the only Austrian bank with a presence in both the world‘s financial centres and in Asia, the group‘s further geographical area of focus. RBI is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange. Hide

The company cooperates exclusively with Lazard, one of the world's preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms. Its clients benefit from the combined resources of the two organisations. This cooperation allows them to offer financial advisory in unsurpassed regional depth and breadth combined with global access and expertise. Raiffeisen Investment is a 100% subsidiary of Raiffeisen Centrobank, which is responsible for all equity related business within the Raiffeisen Group Hide