The challenge of giving legal cover in High Growth Markets

Robert Cummins, Assistant General Counsel, Intelsat, United Kingdom

Robert will talk about the challenge of giving legal cover in High Growth Markets, drawing on his experiences at Intelsat and MTV. The issues for an in-house lawyer supporting business activity in HGMs are as much about resources and culture as about regulatory compliance or contractual smallprint.

Robert Cummins is Assistant General Counsel of Intelsat, the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services. Previously, Robert led the MTV Emerging Markets legal team, which won “Best In-House Team” in the British Legal Awards. Robert read Modern Languages at Cambridge, and qualified as a solicitor at Simmons & Simmons.

In 1965, Intelsat established the first commercial global satellite communications system. For the first time, people, businesses and governments could communicate instantly, reliably and simultaneously from all corners of the globe. NASA put a man on the moon–and the world watched it happen via Intelsat. With major milestones such as our 2001 privatization and 2006 acquisition of PanAmSat, Intelsat and our culture of leadership and technical excellence has established satellite communications as an essential element of the global telecommunications infrastructure. … And our future As we move forward, we will continue finding innovative solutions to tomorrow’s communications challenges. Our customers depend on our technical leadership and commercial innovation to offer their customers seamless, secure and efficient access to people, information and entertainment across the globe. Bringing the World Closer, By Far – See more at: http://www.intelsat.com/about-us/our-history/#sthash.porjqa4I.dpuf