Our team provides specialised legal expertise in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector across Africa and the UAE, focusing on regulatory advisory, licensing and spectrum matters, M&A and joint ventures, data centre and infrastructure projects, fintech and digital payments, content distribution, IP protection, and high-stakes disputes to enable tech companies, telecom operators, media houses, and investors to thrive in a fast-evolving digital economy.
We support the full TMT value chain, from infrastructure deployment and licensing to platform launches, content creation, mergers, and exits, delivering coordinated pan-African solutions that integrate local regulatory insight with international standards for scalable, compliant, and innovative operations.
Our Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Expertise
The Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector is a key engine of economic transformation in the current times, propelled by explosive mobile and internet penetration, fintech innovation, digital content growth, 5G rollouts, satellite connectivity expansion, data centre investments, and the rise of AI and cloud services. Yet the landscape demands expert navigation of regulatory harmonisation (including data protection and cybersecurity laws), spectrum allocation complexities, foreign investment restrictions in some markets, intellectual property challenges for content and software, competition scrutiny on mergers, and evolving ESG expectations in digital infrastructure.
We deliver integrated legal and strategic advice across Africa and the UAE to a diverse client base, including:
Our on-the-ground presence in digital economy hubs enables clients to secure licences swiftly, execute transformative transactions, protect innovations, ensure compliance, and capitalise on convergence opportunities.
How We Help in Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (Representative Scope)
Our coordinated services span the entire TMT ecosystem, providing tailored support for your initiatives in Africa and the UAE:
Why Clients Choose ALN
Representative transactions include advising:
As the lead Africa legal adviser coordinating transactional, regulatory (telecom and mobile money) and competition advice over 14 jurisdictions in Africa in connection with a USD 1.25 billion investment in a newly formed holding company, Airtel Africa, by six leading global investors, including Warburg Pincus, Softbank, Temasek and Singtel.
in connection with the merger of the second and third largest mobile telephony operators in Kenya
A video entertainment company in Africa, in connection with the Mauritian company effectively merging into MultiChoice Africa Luxembourg, a Luxembourg entity and the surviving entity subsequently merged into MultiChoice Africa Holdings, a Dutch company.
A technology company in the global payments business, in connection with provision of a push payment service in Ethiopia.
In connection with their settlement of disputes relating to their 60% stake in the Guinean national telecommunications company, Société des Télécommunications de Guinée (SOTELGUI) SA, and the negotiation of a successful exit from Guinea in accordance with Telekom Malaysia’s international investment strategy.
As part of a consortium led by Deloitte Consulting, in connection with the proposed partial privatisation of Ethio-Telecom, a state-owned enterprise engaged in providing telecommunication services in Ethiopia, through the acquisition by private investors of a significant minority equity stake in the Company’s share capital.
A private equity and venture capital firm, in connection with their proposed acquisition of a 45% stake in Azam Television, a digital satellite service provider and part of Bakhresa Group, a leading Industrial House in Tanzania, with operations in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa.
One of Africa’s leading classifieds and media groups, in connection with its acquisition of the Tanzania subsidiaries of One Africa Media, including EverythingDar.com and BrighterMonday.
A multinational computer technology corporation, in connection with the provision of geo-hosting assessment survey, and hosting data centers in Ethiopia.
in building a blockchain based platform to tokenize assets across Africa.
In connection with the acquisition, together with Safaricom, of the M-PESA pan-African money payments system.
A UK based company, in connection with telecommunication laws and regulations in Sudan.
A listed leading global communications group, as lead counsel in connection with its acquisition of a 49 percent stake in two Algerian-based agencies, including GANFOOD, a creative and consultancy agency and HVS, a media agency.
in connection with the merger of the second and third largest mobile telephony operators in Kenya.
An East African leading home entertainment operator, in connection with the proposed sale of its business
A subsidiary of Industrial Promotion Services Kenya, in connection with their acquisition of the shareholding of an existing shareholder in the Seacom Group, a company that owns an extensive ICT data infrastructure across the African continent and provides communications and cloud solutions to businesses, network carriers and service providers.