Menu Search through site content What are you looking for?
Menu

Ken Wong

Legal Director

People

Ken Wong

Ken Wong

Legal Director

People

Ken Wong

Ken Wong

Legal Director

Ken is an Australian-qualified legal director based in Dubai with extensive experience in technology, media and telecoms procurement, outsourcing and commercial transactions.

Regional experience

Go to next section

Profile & Experience

Ken is an Australian-qualified legal director based in Dubai with extensive experience in technology, media and telecoms procurement, outsourcing and commercial transactions.

Regional experience
Full Profile

Ken advises on a broad range of technology, media and telecommunications procurement, outsourcing and commercial projects and transactions. He has acted for leading local and international banks, financial institutions, insurers, government entities, technology providers and professional services companies across multiple jurisdictions.

Ken has extensive experience drafting, negotiating and closing large-scale TMT projects and transactions, including software licensing and development, hardware and infrastructure, cloud and data centre services, platform development and commercialisation, and commercial supply and distribution arrangements.

Ken joined the Dubai office of Clyde & Co after practising for several years in Australia and the UK at leading international law firms. Ken is Australian qualified and was admitted in New South Wales, Australia in 2011.

Experience
  • Advising noon on its AED 1.23 billion (USD 335.2 million) acquisition of Namshi from Emaar Malls.
  • Advised a Saudi government entity on a number of procurements of complex IT platforms, systems and infrastructure development, integration and roll-out in relation to one of the Kingdom’s strategic national projects
  • Advised a Canadian telecoms company on the procurement of 5G mobile infrastructure and systems development, integration and nationwide roll-out
  • Advising Arabian Contracting Services Company (Al Arabia), a Saudi listed company, on its SAR 1.05 billion acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Faden Media and Advertising Company (Faden Media)
  • Advised a UK transport authority on the outsourcing of the operations and enforcement of local congestion charge and ultra-low emission charge schemes
  • Advised an Australian government entity on a significant outsourcing of IT managed services and the transition out of data centres and suppliers
  • Advised an Australian ports authority on the procurement of an enterprise resource management system for managing marine ports
  • Advised a UK bank on the outsourcing of payment aggregation services and platform licensing for processing payments within the UK payments schemes
  • Advised a UK bank on the outsourcing of fund administration services following a joint venture with a leading wealth management fund
  • Advised an Australian bank on the procurement of a new merchant point of sale terminal system
  • Advised an international airport on the procurement of an enterprise resource management system for the supply, installation and maintenance of automated bag drop machines
  • Advised a European FMCG company on transitional, supply and distribution arrangements following the sale of its baking, cooking and spreads business
Sectors

Sectors

  • Commercial

  • Consumer Goods

  • Corporate

  • Infrastructure

  • Insurance

  • Insurance

  • Retail & Consumer

Services

Services

  • Commercial

  • Data Breach Response & Recovery

  • Data Protection & Privacy

  • Data Security

  • Digital Assets and Blockchain

  • E-commerce

  • Emerging Technology Regulation

  • Franchising

  • Outsourcing & Procurement

  • Software Licensing and Development

  • Technology

  • Technology, Outsourcing & Data

Insights