About
Preiskel & Co is a business law firm, based in the City of London, which specialises in UK and international corporate, commercial (including IPR) and regulatory matters with a focus on TMT. The firm also has strong dispute resolution and film and TV departments. The firm: Preiskel & Co was founded in 2004. Since inception, the firm’s practice has expanded beyond its core telecoms, media and technology expertise to build a leading competition law practice, as well as developing its general IPR, fintech, retail, franchising and cleantech practices. There is also a significant international element to the firm’s work, with clients in continental Europe, Latin America, Russia, US, Africa and the Middle East. It advises governments, multinationals, regulators, and owner-managed businesses as well as other law firms and major consultancies. It is internationally recognised for its experience in the telecommunications sector, has won various awards such as UK Telecoms Law Firm of the Year, and is known for its TMT practice generally, including data protection, IPR protection, and commercial expertise. Preiskel & Co is internationally recognised in leading guides such as The Legal 500 for its experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors, competition law including merger control, and in social media. The firm’s competition team is advising marketers for an Open Web in relation to its CMA complaint about Google’s Privacy Sandbox, and the ensuing CMA investigation. The team also runs competition law damages cases in the CAT and High Court, and advises on merger control laws and their applicability to client transactions, in particular in light of recent reforms. The dispute resolution team, led by Robert Dougans, has been instructed in relation to a number of high profile commercial court actions, including one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases for 2021. The firm benefits from the film and TV expertise of Peter Dally and Hannah Leader, who both have an impressive range of experience advising in the industry. The firm was credited for its legal work on the award-winning film “Blinded by the Light”. On the social media side, the firm boasts one of the UK’s leading legal bloggers and commentators, David Allen Green, who also writes for the Financial Times. His practice includes advising on high-profile defamation cases, including Twitter-related defamation cases. Types of work undertaken: The main industry sectors in which Preiskel & Co has expertise are telecoms and IT; complex telecoms regulatory advice; media (including social media); fintech; cleantech; retail (including restaurants, furniture and fashion); gambling including online gaming; and film and television. The firm’s main practice areas are competition law (including merger control); commercial (including IT, data protection, telecoms, and franchising); regulatory (including telecoms and data protection); corporate; intellectual property (including filing trade marks and patents); online gaming; employment; film and TV and dispute resolution. Preiskel & Co is internationally recognised for its international telecoms work advising some of the world’s largest telecoms operators and handset manufacturers as well as telecoms regulators/ministries. The firm boasts one of Europe’s leading EU competition lawyers, Tim Cowen, whose practice focuses on complicated second phase merger investigations, EU advocacy challenges, and competition damages claims. Daniel Preiskel and Ronnie Preiskel are also recognised in their own right as leading telecoms lawyers. Preiskel & Co plays a leading role in various telecoms and other industry associations including: MEF (Mobile Ecosystem Forum), the International MVNOx Association, ISPA (ISP Association), ITSPA, FCS, Spanish Chamber of Commerce, the International Institute of Communications, the British Institute or International and Comparative Law, as well as being on the Communications Law Committee of the IBA. ### Staffing Figures - 5 Number of UK partners - 25 Number of other UK fee-earners
Office locations
London
London
Preiskel & Co LLP 4 King's Bench Walk Temple London EC4Y 7DL
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Daniel Preiskel
Current position: senior partner. Specialist area of practice: telecoms and IT. Daniel is a co-founder of PREISKEL & CO LLP and has over 20 years’ experience working in the telecoms sector, advising across the industry and globe. He has been ranked for over 16 years in major independent research guides as one of the world’s leading communications lawyers. He is particularly recognised for commercial and regulatory work in the UK and overseas. Together with his international team of lawyers that he heads up, he provides an outside global-counsel service to clients on a range of legal issues spanning the globe, quite a number of which have no connection with the UK or indeed English law. Daniel recently co-founded the International MVNOx Association and advises MVNOs as well as MNOs from the Far East, Middle East, Europe and Africa, as well as North and South America (sometimes including strategy). He also advises clients on international acquisitions, investments and occasionally on telecoms privatisations. Other types of clients include a major global Korean handset manufacturer, various OTT providers, a major international WIFI provider, mobile data clearing houses, telecoms data centres, minutes’ exchanges and various telecoms resellers. He also advises on cloud issues and software as a service agreements, including a major one recently with BBC Worldwide. Daniel Preiskel is a regular speaker at prestigious international telecoms conferences and was on the Steering Committee of the MEF Privacy in Apps Programme (www.appprivacy.net) that attracted a fair amount of coverage in the press. MEF is the mobile content industry leading forum and Daniel is now on the MEF Global Mobile Money Steering Committee. Daniel plays an important legal role in other leading industry associations: ITSPA (Internet Telephony Service Providers Association), ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association) and the Lexing Network of Emerging Technology Lawyers and FCS (Federation of Communication Services). · Telecommunications
Jose Saras
Jose is a partner at PREISKEL & CO LLP and has international experience advising clients on telecoms, technology, commercial and data protection law. Together with Preiskel’s international team of lawyers, he advises clients on a wide range of telecoms and technology matters. Some of the clients he has advised include a major global Korean handset manufacturer, various OTT providers, a major international WiFi provider, mobile data clearing houses, telecoms data centres, minutes’ exchanges and various UK and international telecoms resellers. He also advises on cloud issues and software as a service agreements, encryption, RIPA and Ofcom compliance audits. · Telecommunications
Karthyaeni Vittala
Karthyaeni is a Partner at Preiskel & Co and is dual qualified as an English Solicitor and an Indian Advocate. She holds an LLM in International Commercial Law from Kings College London, where she specialized in Syndicated Lending, International Bonds, Project Finance & Loan Sales and Mergers & Acquisitions. · Corporate / M&A
Ronnie Preiskel
Managing partner, PREISKEL & CO LLP. Work on commercial, corporate and regulatory matters across the full spectrum of the telecommunications and technology sectors. Clients range from governments, regulators and multinationals to start-ups. Recent work projects include advising on: a Series B fundraising for a Russian-based telecoms data centre provider; a strategic alliance and investment for a financial and data clearing company; regulatory and commercial matters for a mobile network operator; the scope of certain international treaties for a Caribbean Government; commercial matters for a MVNA, and commercial and regulatory issues for a payment processing company. Experience extends across all the continents with a current emphasis on Russia, the Middle East and South America. · Telecommunications
Tim Cowen
Tim Cowen focuses on EU and UK competition law and EU regulatory law. Tim has handled competition and regulatory matters for over 28 years. He formerly served as general counsel for BT’s international businesses, and as chief counsel competition law and public policy for BT Group. Tim has particular experience providing antitrust counseling to technology firms, including on competition issues related to cloud computing and the European Union’s Digital Agenda. He also advises on abuse of dominance disputes and represents clients in antitrust litigation. He has handled cases before the EU Commission and the domestic regulators and courts in the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand. Tim was awarded the title of ‘Distinguished Visiting Fellow’ at the European Business School in London and is a visiting professor at the City of London Law School and a guest lecturer in law and technology at Imperial College Business School. Tim is a panel member for the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal; founder of The Open Computing Alliance; past chairman of the competition panel, Confederation of British Industry; past chairman at the International Association of Commercial and Contract Management; and board member of the International Institute of Communications. · Competition / Antitrust