Aaron White
Partner, Head of TMT Asia
Partner
Regional Head of Practice
Brisbane,
Australia,
Africa Group
Aaron is Head of TMT Asia and leads our telecommunications industry sector globally. He has significant expertise of the telecommunications and technology sectors, having spent 19 years advising clients in these sectors internationally.
Aaron’s practice focuses on advising private and publicly traded companies, private capital sponsors, venture capital investors and high growth tech-enabled companies on M&A transactions, joint ventures, spinoffs, minority investments, corporate restructurings, projects and other corporate transactions. He has particular expertise in digital infrastructure transactions.
Background
Aaron is dual qualified in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- PsiQuantum on its partnership with the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments to build the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer in Australia, through a A$940M financial package, comprised of equity, grants and loans
- Morrison & Co-owned investment firm Infratil on its acquisition of a majority stake in network provider and interconnection firm Console Connect for $160 million
- AustralianSuper on its $2.5 billion deal with DigitalBridge Group to acquire a significant minority stake in Vantage Data Centers EMEA
- Stonepeak on its acquisition of a 49% interest in Cellnex’s Sweden and Denmark mobile towers business for EUR 730 million
- QIC on its acquisition of a 50% stake in Vector Metering, a NZ$2.5bn smart-metering business operating across Australia and New Zealand
- GIC on its acquisition of a 30% stake in telecommunications infrastructure provider CETIN Group
- OneWeb on its merger with Eutelsat in an all-share transaction
- Bharti Global Limited on the acquisition of the OneWeb LEO satellite business
- a private capital investor on its proposed acquisition of a majority interest in Spark New Zealand’s mobile towers business
- a consortium on its proposed acquisition of Australian Tower Network, the Australian mobile infrastructure business of Singtel Optus
- IHS Towers on its US$400m acquisition mobile infrastructure in South Africa from MTN SA
- I Squared Capital on its acquisition of Hutchison Telecommunications’ fixed line business
- Australia’s National Broadband Network on its the A$11bn acquisition of Telstra's national copper and HFC networks and Optus' national HFC network
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