TMT
At rēgula, we have a solid track record of advising in the telecommunications and audiovisual media sectors. Several members of our team have worked in direct contact with key market players for more than a decade. Our work spans sanctioning and litigation matters, as well as regulatory and economic issues, in proceedings before both national and European authorities and courts.
We regularly advise telecommunications operators in proceedings before the Spanish TMT regulator (CNMC), primarily sanctioning proceedings, including investigations into alleged infringements of the sector-specific regulatory framework and competition law. We also represent clients in the judicial phase of these proceedings, before the National Court and the Supreme Court.
Our team has also acted in sanctioning proceedings before the European Commission in the telecommunications sector, as well as in appeals before the Court of Justice of the European Union. This enables us to provide expert advice on matters with a transnational dimension and on questions of interpretation of EU law.
Beyond sanctioning proceedings, we advise on the application of the sector-specific regulatory framework to the operations of telecommunications companies, including obligations of access and interconnection, regulated tariffs, use of radio spectrum, network deployment, universal service obligations, and ex ante market supervision. Our approach combines legal expertise with technical understanding of the sector, enabling us to deliver solutions aligned with the operational realities of our clients.
We also assist clients in merger transactions in the telecommunications sector, including the notification and analysis of transactions before the CNMC and the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission. Our experience includes designing notification strategies, negotiating remedies, and, where necessary, challenging decisions.
In the audiovisual media sector, our team has advised on sanctioning and merger control proceedings in some of the most significant corporate cases and projects in Spain over the past fifteen years. Our experience includes cases involving anticompetitive practices, monitoring of CNMC decisions, authorization of acquisitions and joint ventures, and the regulation of advertising, the protection of minors, European production quotas, and channel distribution.
We have also developed particular expertise in the legal analysis of advertising markets linked to the electronic communications sector, including the regulation of television advertising contracts, institutional advertising, sector-specific restrictions, and competition among operators in convergent markets. We also have significant experience in the field of collective management of intellectual property rights, advising both operators and collecting societies on the interpretation and application of the applicable regulatory framework.
Our practice is defined by a technical, strategic, and results-oriented approach, with a comprehensive understanding of the legal, economic, and reputational interests at stake. At rēgula, we provide operators in the telecommunications and audiovisual media sectors with specialized and rigorous legal advice, adapted to the constant evolution of their regulatory and technological environments.