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With 34 offices in 24 countries, and some 3,400 legal advisers, Clifford Chance is a leading global law firm, focused on combining technical excellence and local expertise to help clients achieve their goals.

Our client base is large and diverse. It includes investment banks and financial institutions, multinationals and other public and private corporations, private equity providers, management teams, asset management clients, partnerships and governments. We represent over a quarter of the world's listed entities.
In the field of TMT, we operate across the full legal spectrum, organising ourselves into a single team to ensure that we deliver consistently for our clients, whatever the challenge they face. An unparalleled industry focus means that we are as skilled at determining how the regulatory landscape affects our clients as we are at managing high value deals for them.

Our M&A team have handled some of the largest and most complex deals to date. In this area, clients benefit from our global transaction capability with a full service of English, US and civil law expertise in the key financial centres across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. The practice has a strong track record, evidenced by the top tier positions we occupy in the legal directories and M&A league tables as well as through the numerous awards we have won.
To find out more about us, please visit: cliffordchance.com

Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm with over 800 legal staff in 19 locations situated in key business and financial centres across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. We believe it is who we are and how we approach our work that sets us apart and we set the highest standards in the way we operate, and pride ourselves on our client service.

Our philosophy for international growth has been to build practices around local lawyers who understand the culture, business and languages of the countries and regions in which we operate. We believe that we have succeeded in developing a closely knit and cohesive network of lawyers who address local legal issues and business needs as part of a global service.

Our lawyers have acted on matters in the large majority of the 54 African nations. Lawyers from our international offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia advise on a wide range of transactions and disputes. We advise clients from all parts of the world on English,French and OHADA law, as well as on a number of local law issues. We have also formed strong relationships with local counsel throughout Africa to enable us to combine our expertise with local law advice, and so to deliver an efficient and comprehensive service.

Financial institutions sits at the heart of our business and we have advised on a range of financing transactions in Africa, including export credit agency backed loans for telecoms equipment and satellites.

Our internationally recognised Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) practice is a multi-disciplinary group of lawyers with specialist skills covering all aspects of the TMT sector. We have a proven track record in telecommunications and have acted on a number of telecoms matters in the African market including financings, acquisitions, privatisations and regulatory issues. This level of industry focus, when coupled with our corporate credibility and international reach is of clear benefit to our clients. By being fully immersed in our clients commercial landscape, we are able to reflect their business drivers in the solutions and advice we provide, positioning us as trusted business advisors.

Telecompaper is a well respected, independent research and publishing company focussed on the telecommunications industry. Telecommunications is a fast changing industry which makes it difficult for telecom professionals to keep up with the latest developments. Telecompaper tracks the worldwide telecommunications industry and publishes need-to-know information and market insights. We provide international customers with breaking news, newsletters, expert analyses, reports and advisory services. Telecompaper was founded in 2000 and now employs 18 staff and also employs correspondents in various countries who track the local telecom industry. For more information, please visit www.telecompaper.com

ReConnect Africa.com is a unique online careers and business website and monthly magazine for African professionals in the Diaspora and around the world. ReConnect Africa offers an ideal platform to advertise job vacancies, products and services to a targeted professional African market in Europe, across Africa and around the world.

Created in 1988, InfoCom is a market research and consultancy company with 20 years experience in providing expert strategic planning assistance to stakeholders in the telecommunications, IT and multimedia industries.
Through customised consultancy services as well as multi-client products (Teleseeq product line) InfoCom’s clients benefit from the synergy between two spheres of activity — strategic studies and engineering. InfoCom’s activities span therefore financial, marketing, regulatory and technical aspects. InfoCom’s independent and fact-based perspective provides decision makers with an authoritative analysis of market dynamics, trends and opportunities in their key markets.

InfoCom’s Mission: To assist decision makers to create competitive advantages and improve their market position through the timely delivery of accurate and reliable market intelligence.

Facts and strengths:
Entirely independent from any operator or manufacturer.
Extensive experience in IT and telecommunications market analysis
Leading edge content management system for market intelligence.
Multinational team speaking over ten different languages.
International offices
International partners

Our research agenda is an endless exercise in accuracy. Leveraging our body of knowledge from our own research, surveys and modelling, InfoCom analysts bring their experience and dedication to understand markets and how people relate to technology.

Telecomkh.com is an online magazine whose mission is to promote the development of the telecommunications sector with information and information-based services, to manufacturers, engineers, retailers, installers or anyone wishing to acquire professional knowledge of developments in this sector. It has two distinct versions: one in spanish focused to the spanish and latinoamerican markets and another in english (www.telecomkh.com/en), addressed to the european and international markets.

AfricaBusiness.com is an online information website about Africa, business, renewable energy, travel, science. AfricaBusiness.com provides useful information for those looking to promote their products and services in the emerging markets of Africa. Free Newsletter, Classified Advertisements, Markets Reports, Exhibitions and Trade Fairs in Africa... and more... Advertise your products on AfricaBusiness.com and start building your business in the market of tomorrow - Africa!
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