TMT
According to Chambers Bowmans team consists of trusted legal specialists facilitating a thriving technology, media and telecommunications future in Africa.
- Overview
Bowmans leverages its comprehensive industry knowledge and understanding of technology to provide clients with sophisticated, tailored and pragmatic advice.
We help our clients to navigate legal, commercial and practical challenges and ensure regulatory compliance.
Our specialist lawyers have developed a deep understanding of key concerns relating to investment, entrance, innovation, deployment and continued operation and have forged close relationships with government agencies and industry regulators in the TMT sector.
We assist with commercial agreements ranging from all forms of infrastructure sharing arrangements to fibre optic network deployments (on an EPC, EPCM, BOT or simple design-build basis), to system integration, software development, software or platform licensing and IT services (in all forms including outsourcing).
Our expertise extends to cyber and IT security, privacy and data protection, consumer protection, product and platform liability, e-commerce, electronic transacting and fintech, judicial review proceedings, legislative drafting, constitutional law, administrative law and competition law.
Related Expertise
Bowmans keeps abreast with industry trends and has broad-based legal knowledge covering a vast array of topics within the technology and telecoms space.
Bowmans has a distinguished practice group with leading expertise across a wide range of IT and telecommunications matters.
The firm is renowned for its work with internet service providers, financial institutions and telecommunications players, with major clients drawn from across the African continent.
Bowmans has experience acting for an array of both public and private clients, with an increasingly active practice acting for over-the-top service providers.
Bowmans is highlighted for its familiarity with a broad range of regulations in the broadcasting sector.
Bowmans is notably active on matters involving the national regulatory bodies, offering support on contentious mandates including complaints, public hearings and litigation.
Key Contacts
Craig Kennedy
Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications
John Syekei
Head of IP and Technology and Partner
Ariana Issaias
Director
Daniel Pretorius
Partner
Heather Irvine
Partner
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