Antony Corel Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Focused on corporate, commercial and regulatory work in the TMT and Resource sectors.TMT work experience includes transactional, commercial and regulatory. Specialisation includes: bidding agreements; consortium agreements; joint ventures; management agreements, shareholder and subscription agreements; turn-key infrastructure agreements, and regulatory opinions. Also experienced in advising governments and governmental authorities on privatisation, legislation, and policy work.Resource work experience includes transactional, commercial and regulatory. Specialisation includes: assumption agreements; commodity sale agreements; drilling agreements; farmin agreements; investment agreements; management agreements; mineral sharing agreements; operator agreements; royalty agreements; streaming agreements; toll-treat agreements, and regulatory opinions.Very recent work includes: advising a government on a digital economy governance perspective; advising on US Federal data laws affecting telecom service providers; countering claims of alleged trademark, unfair trade practices and passing-off contraventions; a successful re-compliance for an Australian listed ASX company; an acquisition of several mineral tenements in Far North Queensland; advising the inventor of a unique identifier focused on IoT and NIDD markets; and development of The X-Trials©, a unique non-scripted contemporary courtroom docudrama.

Mosman, New South Wales, Australia

Focused on corporate, commercial and regulatory work in the TMT and Resource sectors.Notwithstanding that I now reside in London and practice with Preiskel & Co LLP, I maintain my practicing certificate in New South Wales. During my private practice in Sydney I was heavily involved in start up ventures in the TMT and Resource sectors. My experience included the full gamut of transactional, commercial and regulatory work and also fund raising, both equity and debt.Examples of work include: representing private and listed investors acquiring several significant gold and other precious mineral projects in Indonesia, New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania; and creating, developing and leading the establishment of Defence+TV, a "multi-media effects multiplier" for the Australian Defence Force providing the ADF, defence industry and general public a dedicated channel of contemporary content focused on news, current affairs, education, training and cross community engagement; advising upon the establishment and operation of 878TEN, a global telecom company utilising ITU issued ENUM enabled numbers, IMSIs and associated codes for voice, data and IoT based services;  consulting with a Formula One company concerning commercial exploitation of their IP through a bespoke global communications platform; and advising a leading Japanese game company upon the establishment of an MVNO business model.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Appointed director of Ark Mines Ltd by the majority Japanese owner to independently advise them on their ownership stake. During the GFC the Japanese owner decided to exit its majority position and I was appointed to develop and close an exit strategy. I located a buyer for a majority stake in the company and then worked with the buyer as a co-founder to list the company on the Australian Securities Exchange at which time I was appointed company Chairman. Under my chairmanship the company raised over $10M in equity and financing, acquired and developed various gold assets, procured necessary governmental permissions for mining and secured a toll-treat agreement for processing gold ore. Due to changes at the toll treat company beyond the control of Ark Mines Ltd, profitable processing could not proceed and the Ark Mines Ltd was ultimately placed into voluntary administration. Under my guidance the former directors of Ark Mines Ltd negotiated a deed of company arrangement with the administrator and creditors and satisfied the DOCA terms, releasing control of the company back to the directors and paying unsecured creditors 100 cents in the dollar. The company successfully relisted on the ASX on 24/12/2021 with a new suite of mineral tenements based in Far North Queensland.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Focused on communications and media law and Australian organisations engaged in these sectors. Engagement included: involvement in the National Broadband Network v1.0, in which matters Corrs represented the Australian Department of Broadband Communications and Digital Economy; Vodafone; and the Western Australian Government.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Transitioning from London partner with the firm to residence in Sydney. Work involved advising the Samoan MCIT re: drafting new media law for Samoa.

London, England, United Kingdom

Transitioned from the firm's Hong Kong office to the firm's London office. Continued to be focused on public and private sector clients in the TMT sectors. Clients and/or working partners included: Algerian MCIT; Banco Santander (Spain) re: privatisation of Algerie Telecom; Boeing Connexion; Callahan Communications Group; DoCoMo; FLAG Telecom; MTC Vodafone re: successful bid for Souther Iraq mobile licence; Raiffeisen Bank (Austria) re: privatisation of Srpske Telekom; Samoan MCIT re: drafting new media law; Telekom (Austria) re: Hungarian operations; and TIM re: successful bid for a new data licence in Saudi Arabia.

Hong Kong Sar

Focused on legal and regulatory work for public and private organisations within Asia engaged in the TMT sectors. Clients and/or working partners included: ASTRI (HKSAR), AT&T, Boeing Connexion, Callahan Communications Group, City Telecom, Concert, DoCoMo, FLAG Telecom, iAsiaWorks, IDA (Singapore), IDT, Level3, MDA (Singapore), OFTA (HKSAR), New World Telecom, and NTT.

Hksar

Engaged to establish the firm's nascent TMT practice in Asia. Focused on TMT clients in the public and private sectors including: AT&T, City Telecom, FLAG Telecom, OFTA (HKSAR), NTT, Sunday (HKSAR), InfoDevelopment Authority (Singapore) and the Media Development Authority (Singapore).

Hong Kong Sar

Focused on telecom and media organisations in Australia and Hong Kong engaged in those sectors. Clients and/or working partners included: AT&T, City Telecom, Distacom Group (HKSAR), EDS, FLAG Telecom, Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting, Macau Telecom, MCI WorldCom, Motorola, OFTA (HKSAR), Nomura Research Institute, NTT, Nortel, Siemens, Spice Telecom (India), Sunday (HKSAR), Telstra, Telecom New Zealand, TVB (HKSAR) and UUNet.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Focused on telecom and media work. Heavily involved in the bidding for and launch of MMDS subscription services in Australia. Clients represented included: Century Communications and OTC.

Diploma Of Law, Law

Diploma of Law studies

Master Of Laws (Llm), Communications & Media

Master of Laws degree

Graduate Diploma Legal Practice, Law

Practical legal education studies

Higher School Certificate, Various, University Matriculation

Activities and Societies: First XI football team (1980 & 1981) KDSA football team (between 1975 and 1981) School drama club (between 1979.