Colin is a global legal expert on telecommunications and new technologies, with over 30 years’ experience in advising Governments, company boards and regulators.

Colin specialises in corporate and commercial transactions, regulation and competition in the communications, IT and technology sectors.

He advises world-leading telecom companies, suppliers, investors and regulators on telecommunications ventures in many different parts of the developed and developing world. He has also counselled Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern, African and Asian governments and agencies on telecom privatisation, strategic investment, licensing and associated regulatory reforms.

The author and editor emeritus of "Global Telecommunications Law and Practice", Colin is a regular speaker at conferences and a writer of numerous articles on telecommunications and new technologies.

Colin writes a telecom industry legal blog at http://telecommentator.blogspot.com/

Colin is a past co-Chair of the Communications Law Committee of the International Bar Association.