Professional biography
Neil Carabine is a Partner in our Melbourne office where he specialises in mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications and regulated access regimes. His major transactions include overseas and domestic acquisitions and disposals, joint venture agreements, network interconnection and access agreements, negotiations and arbitrations; Australian and regional regulatory compliance and judicial review of regulatory decisions; marketing and competitive strategies, channel arrangements; and general commercial, competition and contractual advice.
Neil advises Telstra on many facets of mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications and competition law. He co-led the $15.5 billion T3 - the final stage of Telstra's privatisation. He has advised Telstra extensively on the regulatory aspects of its transformation, including the launch of the NEXT G network and fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) negotiations with the Australian Government and on Telstra's 3G network and roaming arrangements with Hutchison.
He leads the advisory team to the Singapore full service carrier, StarHub, in relation to its regulatory and commercial matters. In Australia he has advised major corporations such as GE, Sensis, ANZ, Victorian Funds Management Corporation and ING.
Neil has been identified by Chambers Global Guide 2009 and the Asia Pacific Legal 500 2008/09 as a first-rank leading individual in the area of Telecommunications. Chambers 2009 describes Neil as "a telecoms lawyer par excellence".
Neil has also been named as one of only two Australians amongst the world's top telecommunications lawyers by Euromoney's Legal Media Group's edition of The Best of the Best 2009.
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