Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT)

We advise clients on a wide variety of telecommunications transactional matters, from mergers and acquisitions to service agreements and equipment contracts. We have counselled clients on a variety of telecommunications service and infrastructure companies. Our expertise includes corporate, tax, securities, intellectual property, antitrust, bankruptcy, and related issues.

We can also provide our clients with introductions to sources of financing, strategic partners, and content providers. Our information technology solicitors are partnered with clients from across the technology industry. From worldwide leaders in software, electronics and communications to emerging entrepreneurs, our lawyers support their clients in all legal matters and advise upon a vast range of industry-specific issues.

HLG has been providing cutting-edge advice, guidance, and solutions across a broad range of areas, including regulatory and competition law advice, M&A, JV and strategic partnership structuring and negotiations, data protection, privacy and cybersecurity advice, protection of intellectual property, and dispute resolution. We combine our knowledge of the law with our experience of the Kuwaiti regulatory environment, our relationships with Government agencies and regulators, operators and investors, and our commercial acumen to assist our clients. We are experienced in advising all types of businesses in the TMT sector, from start-ups to well-established companies, recognizing the different needs of each business.

Our previous experiences include the following:

• Advising US defense companies including L3, Lockheed Martin, Deloitte US, Mantech International and BlueVoyant on critical infrastructure protection, ICT, cybersecurity and secured communications solutions and smart solutions in Kuwait, KSA and the Kingdom of Bahrain.
• Assisted acquisitions on behalf of Egypt Telecom and acquisition of South Sudan telecom license.
• Assisted Kuwait media company launch into television station and broadcasting.
• Assisted with entry in Kuwait and region addressing content and licensing requirements, technology initiatives, organizational commitments, operations, and customer-facing services.
• Assisting a leading towers management operator in ensuring permitting and compliance of tower infrastructure at the national level.
• Represented several e-commerce companies negotiating and concluding e-commerce transactions agreements, such as software development, outsourcing, hosting, e-commerce websites development, marketing and alliance agreements.
• Assisting clients in IT Systems and Procurement – for the procurement of IT systems and related vendor services. In advising clients in this area, we help craft RFIs and RFPs, devise implementation strategies, identify risks and ensure that software development and implementation contracts are in sync with our clients' needs.
• Advising clients on Licensing and Negotiations - Advising clients on licensing agreements, joint ventures, contract negotiations and other business legal issues related to technology acquisition and implementation, including advising on contracts with software vendors, managed services providers, outsourcing and hosting companies.
• Advising Health Informatics company on corporate structure and finance issues and identifying and negotiating joint venture arrangements with intellectual property issues for start-up companies or strategic alliances regarding new technology in the healthcare industry.

Our expertise includes:

• Technology and IP-focused commercial agreements, including:
• Licensing and outsourcing agreements
• Technology transfer agreements
• Consulting and development agreements
• Manufacturing, supply and distribution agreements
• Sponsorship, marketing and promotional agreements
• Patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret counseling
• Trademark and copyright portfolio development and management
• IP audits
• M&A, joint ventures, securitizations, financings and other complex corporate transactions
• Cross-border counseling
• Settlement and co-existence agreements resolving intellectual property disputes
• Non-disclosure arrangements
• Government contracts and subcontracts
• Data protection and privacy
• Internet and website counseling
• Social media / digital media