Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Oliver Wilson
Counsel Global Regulatory
Languages
English, French
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
As a counsel in our commercial team, Oliver Wilson advises on a variety of arrangements that go to the core of clients' on-going business. These include long-term or other strategic arrangements - joint ventures, restructuring of group purchasing, outsourcings – but also the essential day-to-day commercial operations – distribution and agency agreements, supply of goods, standard terms of business, manufacturing, logistics, consultancy and other service provision arrangements. Focusing on the automotive and TMT, Oliver has many clients with consumer-facing operations. This gives him an in-depth understanding of relevant regulation, including automotive, media and consumer protection law, as well as the practical steps needed to implement it.
In addition to his commercial work, Oliver has acted on a number of M&A deals – the combination of commercial and corporate experience means that he understands not just the anatomy of getting a deal to completion, but also how a relationship will work out once the ink has dried on the contracts. This is a key advantage when advising on joint ventures in particular.
Representative experience
Ford on its global strategic alliance with Volkswagen covering a range of EV and ICE vehicle programmes.
Acting for Daimler AG on its ongoing investment in the Mercedes GP Formula 1 team.
Sport England on a range of funding arrangements including for Wembley Stadium and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
ITV on a range of matters including the formation of Britbox and the arrangements for the licensing and operation of the Channel 3 network and various broadcast infrastructure procurements
Nio on various contracts connected with the establishment and operation of its Formula E team.
Paramount on its joint venture with Sky to form the SkyShowtime video streaming service.
Vodafone on the global carve-out of its Internet of Things business
Vodafone on its joint venture with Accenture to create a new global services company, Vodafone Shared Operations Limited (VSOL)
Vodafone Group Plc on certain strategic commercial aspects of the €8bn sale of its Italian operations to Swisscom AG
Paramount on its international distribution of Paramount+ on Amazon Prime Video Channels
AB InBev on its global media agency procurement
STIM (the Swedish music collective management organisation) on the establishment of a joint venture with PRS for Music and GEMA of a data processing and music rights licensing hub.
PIF on its joint venture with AMC to establish the first chain of cinemas in Saudi Arabia
Advising Hearst on its investment into the owner of a tech-based platform for music rights management.
Roku on various regulatory and content licensing matters connected with the rollout of the Roku platform and The Roku Channel in UK and various European jurisdictions.
CBS in relation to its disposal of its UK outdoor advertising business, including advising on its London Underground advertising concession
Johnson & Johnson in relation to its tender process for the appointment of agencies to carry out media activities across almost 50 jurisdictions.
An automotive manufacturer on the formation of a joint venture to enable the construction of a new battery plant to supply batteries for the client's vehicles in the European market.
Credentials
Education
- M.A., University of Oxford, New College, 2004
Memberships
- Law Society of England and Wales