Allens

Niranjan Arasaratnam

Partner, Sector Leader - Technology, Media & Telecommunications
BEc, LLB (Hons)
Melbourne | +61 3 9613 8324
Niranjan.Arasaratnam@allens.com.au
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Niranjan is the head of the firm's Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector. He was rated as a leading TMT lawyer in Australia by Chambers Global 2012 and was praised for his 'strong legal skills, partnered with very high client service skills'.

Niranjan is based in Melbourne but his experience includes working for over four years in the firm's Greater China offices. Niranjan has acted on a range of mergers, acquisitions and joint venture transactions in the hi-tech and media sectors, together with numerous technology and media licensing and procurement projects in Australia and Asia.

Niranjan's transactional experience includes advising:

• CBS on its joint venture with Channel Ten to create Channel Eleven, one of the largest free-to-air digital multi channels in Australia;
• Disney on its joint venture with SKT Telecom to create two new children's entertainment payTV channels in South Korea;
• Experian on its acquisition of a 75 per cent interest in Emay Limited, a Cayman Island's holding company of a Chinese mobile marketing company;
• SMI Corporation, a Beijing-based audio-visual company, on its acquisition of Photon a Gold Coast-based audio-visual company;
• Contech on compulsory acquisition of Adelaide-based pipe technology company, Plastream Pipe Technologies, and the subsequent acquisition of the minority shareholders in Plastream;
• Disney Interactive Studios on the acquisition of GameStar, an interactive games developer;
• UK-listed Experian Ltd on the acquisition of a knowledge management company in Hong Kong and a joint venture with a market research company in Beijing;
• Fresenius Kabi, a subsidiary of German-listed global healthcare group, Fresenius SE, on the acquisition of Cosco Pharm, a blood products pharmaceuticals business;
• a group of international investors on the sale of a Chinese online portal, Lycos, to Livedoor, a Japanese e-commerce company;
• AOL Inc on its 'AOL7!' joint venture with the Seven Network and AAPT, and on the subsequent sale of AOL7! to Primus Telecommunications;
• Hutchison Telecommunications International on its GSM rollout in Vietnam with Ericsson and Huawei;
• PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications on the rollout of a fibre network in Indonesia;
• Vision Service Plan, the United States's largest eyecare benefits provider, on the acquisition of Monkey Software Pty Limited;
• Thomson Reuters on various technology procurement projects in Asia, including a software development agreement with Thinksoft in Thailand and IT services agreements with IBM in China and Japan;
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on its distribution strategy in China including due diligence reviews of two distributor partners;
• TATA Sky, a joint venture between STAR TV and TATA Sons, in India in a systems integration agreement with TCS Consultancy for the provision of TATA Sky's DTH platform; and
• Walt Disney Television Asia Pacific on a mobile licensing agreement with Shanghai Media Group.