Landmark $850m Ethiopian telecoms license

In our Inside Emerging Markets video series, our specialists and clients discuss some of the challenges faced when completing complex projects, transactions and disputes.

In our latest video partner Oliver Stacey and associate Zahra Sachedina, based in London, discuss a recent landmark telecoms licence transaction where they advised a consortium of clients on a successful bid for mobile licences in Ethiopia. Oliver and Zahra discuss the unique factors and challenges faced when working on the transaction and how they helped their clients overcome these obstacles to become the first new incumbents in the mobile service space in Ethiopia.