Mark Khouri
Mark helps telecommunications and technology clients deliver their most important transactions.
Mark specialises in telecommunications and technology transactions, and has deep multi-jurisdictional experience across a broad range of sectors including telecommunications, infrastructure, financial services, government and consumer. Mark regularly advises clients on a wide range of commercial matters including telecommunications and data centres, technology initiatives and outsourcings, strategic acquisitions, capacity arrangements, network rollouts and other digital infrastructure (subsea cable systems, towers, satellites and fibre) arrangements.
Mark also frequently advises on regulatory matters in the telecommunications sector, including on privacy, AI and data.
Background
Mark holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Economics (Distinction) from the University of New South Wales.
He is a qualified lawyer in Australia (New South Wales), and a registered foreign lawyer in Singapore.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Digital Nasional Berhad on the rollout of the wholesale 5G network in Malaysia, including development of a reference access offer and several wholesale access agreements with Malaysian carriers
- a number of investment funds on transactions involving the proposed acquisition of various telecommunication towers businesses / equity interests globally and regionally, including Axicom, ATN (formerly Optus’ tower business), Spark and Vodafone NZ’s TowerCo, and Cellnex’s Sweden and Denmark towers businesses
- Thaicom on the purchase of a high-throughput communications satellite and related bandwidth capacity leasing arrangements with two major European partners
- Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), through the Australian Infrastructure Financing Fund for the Pacific (AIFFP), and Tonga Cable Limited on the procurement of subsea cable infrastructure and related capacity IRU arrangements in the trans-pacific region, and DFAT in relation to the acquisition of Digicel Pacific by Telstra
- Google on several digital infrastructure projects and transactions in the Asia-Pacific region, including its participation and investment in subsea cable systems, co-location and fibre capacity arrangements, and in relation to the launch of Project Wing (an autonomous delivery drone service) and an enterprise edition of Google Glass
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia: (i) on the sale of its 99% shareholding in its Indonesian banking subsidiary PT Bank Commonwealth (PTBC) to Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC); (ii) on its sale of a 55% interest in Colonial First State to KKR and a A$3.3 billion joint venture; (iii) on the A$1 billion merger of its Aussie Home Loans business with online mortgage broker Lendi; (iv) on its A$4.2 billion sale of Colonial First State Global Asset Management to Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUFG); and (v) on its A$3.8 billion share sale of its Australian and New Zealand life insurance business to AIA, including the partial transfer of the Commonwealth Financial Planning business
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