Patrick Belton Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Australia

Advised on, and drafted instruments and contracts related to, significant projects tasked to the ACMA, including:*$2 billion Digital Dividend spectrum auction in 2013*the outsourcing and restructuring of the procedures for allocating telephone numbers to carriage service providers*cessation of analog television broadcasting across Australia, between 2010 and 2013*defence of applications for judicial review*proposed auction of licences of new "television-like" services*establishment of the Do Not Call Register*development of protection zones for submarine cables

Co-author of Broadcasting Commentary, Communications Law and Policy in Australia.

Melbourne

Assisted clients in relation to significant transactions and proceedings, including:*the corporatisation and listing on the ASX of Tattersalls Ltd*the initial public offering of a leisure and gaming group*the tender process for Melbourne's EastLink tollway*the defence of applications under the Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 (Vic)*the merger of insurance companies

Llb (Hons)/Bsc (Hons)

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